By the conclusion of this course, students are expected to be
able to:
•	Critique evaluations and interventions of social work 
practice.
•	Describe the relationship between social work research 
and social work practice.
•	Understand components of evaluation and intervention 
research and how they are different from other kinds of social
work research.
•	Select appropriate study design, method, and measures 
to implement a social work intervention or evaluation.
•	Employ scientific methods to the evaluation of one’s 
own social work practice as required by our code of ethics.
•	Draw defendable conclusions from systematic and 
scientifically sound social work evaluations and interventions
that can direct and inform social work practice.
•	Critically assess the consideration of age, gender, 
sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status 
and other characteristics in evaluation and intervention 
research.
•	Develop a systematic and scientifically sound proposal 
to evaluate social work practice.

- Planning and conceptualizing evaluations and interventions
- Ethical issues and responsible conduct of social work 
research
- Needs assessments
- Measurement issues in evaluation and intervention research
- Sampling in evaluation and intervention research
- Formative, process, and outcome approaches to evaluation and
intervention research
- Program monitoring in evaluation research
- Racial and cultural considerations in evaluation and 
intervention research 
- Cost effectiveness, cost analysis, and impact in evaluation 
and intervention research
- Data collection and quantitative/qualitative analyses in
evaluation and intervention research