Soc Rsch Mthd Soc Wk: ANALYSIS

This undergraduate course in social work research introduces the beginning students to the foundational knowledge, including but not limited to conceptual framework and analytical tools, of conducting methodologically sound empirical research. The primacy of interdependence between research based practice and practice based research is emphasized in order to make social work practice recursively evidence informed as well as optimally outcome oriented and effective. The qualitative, quantitative (experimental and quasi-experimental) and mixed method research projects, students choose to undertake, under the close supervision of an instructor, will entail issues that social workers, as front-line clinical and policy practitioners, contend with as they go about engaging individuals, families, groups, organizations and communities to assess their multiple intersecting needs in order to provide the most empirically grounded interventions/services, consistent with the nine competencies recommended by the Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards (EPAS) 2015. The course is purported to integrate four key components of the curriculum design: (a) program and mission goals, (b) explicit curriculum, (c) implicit curriculum, and (d) outcome assessment, as specified by EPAS, within the context of a simple logic model.

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