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This course is a 2-part practice evaluation course, and is designed to be taken concurrently with 651 Practicum II (Part 1: Introduction) and S652 Practicum III (Part 2: Application). This course examines a number of single-system designs that can be used to evaluate practice or practice interventions with clients or service users. The designs, which are n=1 types of studies, can be used with any size system, e.g., individuals, couples, families, groups, or organizational (agency) units. In the Part 1 Introduction portion of the course, students will develop an evaluation plan specifying problems, goals, and outcomes with a service user or other single system, identify valid and reliable measures of outcome for use with identified service users or system targets, and identify an appropriate single-system design to evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed intervention on the observed outcome. This course furthers the knowledge, skills, and values students develop in the earlier practice and research courses. Students will apply their knowledge and skills in research to evaluate practice or program effectiveness in their concentrations, using methods that are sensitive to consumers' needs and clients' race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and additional aspects important to effective and ethical research.
In Part 2 (Application) of this course, examination of single-system designs that can be used to evaluation practice or practice interventions with clients continues. students will build on the evaluation proposal developed in Part 1 (Application) by conducting a formal literature review supporting proposed practice methods with service users or system targets, carry out the single subject design, use graphic and statistical analyses to estimate the effectiveness of an intervention on measurable outcome(s), and present results in a high quality written and presentational formats. This course furthers the knowledge, skills, and values students develop in the earlier practice and research courses. Students will apply their knowledge and skills in research to evaluate practice or program effectiveness in their concentrations, using methods that are sensitive to consumers' needs and clients' race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and additional aspects important to effective and ethical research.
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