Evaluating Practice: Guidelines for the Accountable Professional (with FREE SINGWIN CD-ROM)

by: Bloom, Martin; Fischer, Joel; Orme, John G.

ISBN 13:
9780205342617
ISBN 10:
0205342612
Edition: 4th
Format: Hardcover w/CD
Copyright: 01/01/2003
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
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Now with a free SINGWIN CD-ROM, Evaluating Practice, Fourth Edition, makes understanding and applying data anaylsis even easier for students and instructors.Unsurpassed among human service evaluation texts, Evaluating Practice, includes the innovative SINGWIN program, created by Charles Auerbach, David Schnall, and Heidi Heft Laporte of Yeshiva University.The text instructs students and instructors on managing cases and charting and filling out scales. Although the authors are best known within the social work discipline, this text can also be used in other professional programs such as nursing, counseling, psychology, and psychiatry.

Preface

xiii

Prologue

(32)

PART I WHAT ARE YOU GETTING INTO?

(22)

Integrating Evaluation and Practice

(20)

Introduction to Single-System Designs

(1)

What Are Single-System Designs?

(6)

Single-System Designs and Classical Research: The Knowledge-Building Context

(5)

Single-System Evaluation, Qualitative Research, and Quantitative Research

(2)

Advantages of Using Single-System Designs in Practice

(1)

A Walk through the Evaluation Process

(3)

Summary

(1)

PART II CONCEPTUALIZING AND MEASURING TARGETS AND OBJECTIVES/GOALS

(270)

Basic Principles of Conceptualization and Measurement

(29)

Introduction

(1)

What Is Measurements

(2)

Definition as a First Step in Measurement

(1)

Can Everything Be Measured?

(1)

Key Characteristics of All Measures

(22)

Summary

(2)

Specifying Problems and Goals

(30)

Introduction: From General Problems to Specific Targets of Intervention

(1)

Specifying Client Concerns: Identifying and Clarifying Problems and Potentials

(9)

Specifying Goals and Objectives

(5)

Using Goal Attainment Scaling (GAS) to Establish Goals

102

(3)

Setting Goals in Groups

105

(2)

Problems and Issues in Setting Goals

107

(7)

Summary

114

(2)

Developing a Measurement and Recording Plan

116

(47)

Introduction

117

(1)

Steps in Developing a Recording Plan

118

(8)

Charting: Putting Your Information on Graphs

126

(8)

Problem-Oriented Records (POR)

134

(3)

Computerized Recording

137

(1)

Summary

138

(25)

Computer Assisted Social Services (CASS): A User's Guide

139

(17)

Appendix: Installing Cass

156

(7)

Behavioral Observation

163

(31)

Introduction

164

(2)

General Guidelines for Behavioral Observation

166

(2)

Sampling Behaviors

168

(5)

Instruments for Recording Behaviors

173

(2)

Ensuring Accurate Observations

175

(4)

Methods of Recording Behavior

179

(10)

Analog Situations

189

(2)

Recording Behavior in Groups

191

(2)

Summary

193

(1)

Individualized Rating Scales

194

(17)

Introduction

194

(2)

Uses of Individualized Rating Scales

196

(3)

Constructing and Using Individualized Rating Scales

199

(11)

Summary

210

(1)

Standardized Questionnaires

211

(66)

Introduction

212

(1)

What Are Standardized Questionnaires?

212

(4)

Selecting a Standardized Questionnaire

216

(9)

Administering a Standardized Questionnaire

225

(3)

Some Available Standardized Self-Report Questionnaires

228

(26)

Some Available Standardized Questionnaires for Practitioners

254

(3)

Some Available Standardized Questionnaires for Relevant Others

257

(4)

Some Available Standardized Questionnaires for Independent Observers

261

(1)

Do-It-Yourself Questionnaires

261

(1)

Using Standardized Questionnaires in Groups

262

(1)

Computer Management of Standardized Questionnaires

263

(1)

Summary

264

(1)

Appendix

265

(12)

Computer Assisted Assessment Package (CAAP): A User's Guide

267

(10)

Logs

277

(19)

Introduction

277

(1)

Types of Client Logs

278

(10)

Putting Qualitative and Quantitative Information Together

288

(3)

Introducing Clients to Logs

291

(1)

Practitioner Logs

292

(1)

Maximizing and Verifying the Reliability and Validity of Logs

293

(2)

Summary

295

(1)

Reactivity and Nonreactive Measures

296

(16)

Introduction

296

(2)

Reactivity of Measures

298

(4)

Unobtrusive (Nonreactive) Measures

302

(9)

Summary

311

(1)

Selecting a Measure

312

(13)

Introduction

312

(1)

Considerations in Deciding on a Measure

313

(4)

Use of Multiple Measures

317

(5)

Selecting a Measure

322

(1)

Summary

322

(3)

PART III EVALUATION DESIGNS

325

(188)

Basic Principles of Single-System Designs

327

(37)

Introduction

328

(1)

An Example Connecting Practice and Evaluation Designs

328

(2)

Purposes of Single-System Designs

330

(1)

Unique Characteristics of Single-System Designs

331

(16)

Causality in Single-System Designs

347

(6)

External Validity and Generalizability

353

(7)

Overview of Single-System Designs

360

(3)

Summary

363

(1)

Baselining

364

(16)

Introduction

364

(1)

Purposes of the Baseline

365

(2)

Types of Baselines

367

(1)

How Long Should Baselining Continue?

368

(6)

When Are Baselines Not Necessary?

374

(1)

Issues Regarding Baselining

375

(4)

Summary

379

(1)

From the Case Study to the Basic Single-System Design: A-B

380

(20)

Introduction

380

(1)

Case Studies or Predesigns

381

(5)

Design A-B: The Basic Single-System Design

386

(13)

Summary

399

(1)

The Experimental Single-System Designs; A-B-A, A-B-A-B, B-A-B

400

(28)

Introduction

401

(3)

Basic Experimental Designs

404

(23)

Summary

427

(1)

Multiple Designs for Single Systems

428

(30)

Introduction

429

(1)

Multiple-Baseline Designs: Across Problems, Clients, or Settings

429

(23)

Multiple-Target Designs

452

(2)

Variations on Multiple Designs

454

(2)

Summary

456

(2)

Changing Intensity Designs and Successive Intervention Designs

458

(23)

Introduction

455

(4)

Changing Intensity Designs: A-B1-B2-B3

459

(11)

Successive Intervention Designs: A-B-C, A-B-A-C, A-B-A-C-A

470

(10)

Summary

480

(1)

Complex and Combined Designs

481

(15)

Introduction

481

(1)

Alternating Intervention Design: A-B/C-(B or C)

482

(7)

Interaction Design: A-B-A-B-BC-B-BC

489

(6)

Summary

495

(1)

Selecting a Design

496

(17)

Introduction

496

(1)

Framework for Selecting a Design

496

(3)

Needed; A Design for All Seasons

499

(1)

Creativity in Single-System Designs: Making Your Own Designs

499

(2)

Evaluation in Minimal-Contact Situations

501

(5)

Single-System Designs in Managed Care: The Stretch Design

506

(1)

Trouble-Shooting: ``Okay, I Understand Everything That You Said, but My Case Is Different.''

507

(4)

Summary

511

(2)

PART IV ANALYZING YOUR RESULTS

513

(144)

Basic Principles of Analysis

515

(39)

Introduction

516

(1)

Distinguishing Effort, Effectiveness, and Efficiency

516

(2)

Significance-Practical, Statistical, and Theoretical

518

(6)

Evaluating Goal Achievement

524

(1)

Issues in Analysis of Data

525

(6)

Computer Analysis of Data for Single-System Designs

531

(1)

The Issue of Autocorrelation

532

(6)

Tools in Analysis of Data

538

(14)

Summary

552

(2)

Visual Analysis of Single-System Design Data

554

(15)

Introduction

554

(1)

Definition of Terms

554

(3)

Basic Patterns and Implications

557

(5)

Visual Inspection of Raw Data

562

(2)

Interpreting Ambiguous Patterns

564

(2)

Problems of Visual Inspection

566

(2)

Creating a Chart with SINGWIN

568

(1)

Summary

568

(1)

Descriptive Statistics

569

(26)

Introduction

569

(1)

Measures of Central Tendency

570

(4)

Measures of Variation

574

(2)

Computing and Graphing Measures of Central Tendency and Variation with SINGWIN

576

(1)

Measures of Trend

576

(5)

Measures of Effect Size

581

(11)

Optimal Uses and Cautions for Specific Descriptive Statistics

592

(2)

Summary

594

(1)

Tests of Statistical Significance for Single-System Designs

595

(19)

Introduction

595

(1)

Proportion/Frequency Approach

596

(4)

Three-Standard-Deviation-Band Approach (X-Moving Range-Chart)

600

(5)

Chi-Square

605

(4)

t-Test

609

(1)

General Considerations in Using Tests of Statistical Significance

610

(2)

Optimal Uses and Cautions for Specific Analytic Procedures

612

(1)

Summary

613

(1)

Computer Analysis of Single-System Design Data

614

(37)

Chapter Overview

615

(1)

Starting SINGWIN

616

(1)

Exiting SINGWIN

616

(1)

Getting the Big Picture

617

(1)

Using Specific Procedures

618

(28)

Appendix: Installing SINGWIN

646

(4)

Summary

650

(1)

Selecting a Procedure for Analyzing Data

651

(6)

Introduction

651

(1)

Framework for Selecting a Procedure for Analyzing Data

651

(2)

Other Statistical Considerations

653

(2)

Nonstatistical Considerations

655

(1)

Limitations

655

(1)

Summary

656

(1)

PART V THE CHALLENGE OF SINGLE-SYSTEM DESIGNS

657

(32)

Not for Practitioners Alone

659

(30)

Introduction

660

(1)

Special Applications of Single-System Designs

660

(5)

Recent Criticisms of Single-System Evaluation

665

(9)

For the Client

674

(6)

For the Administrator

680

(6)

For Educators and Students

686

(2)

Summary

688

(1)

References

689

(24)

Name Index

713

(6)

Subject Index

719

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