A Practitioner-Friendly Empirical Way to Evaluate Practice

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ID10554209
AuthorsAllen Rubin (0000-0003-4096-291X, University of Houston, corresponding author), Kirk von Sternberg (University of Houston)
Year2017
Volume62
Issue4
Pages297-302
Publication date2017-08-22
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueSocial Work (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0037-8046 • E-ISSN: 1545-6846
PublisherOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/sw/swx037
PMID28957581
OpenAlexW2749999598
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited7

Social work practitioners and the agencies that employ them have long been concerned with how best to evaluate whether the interventions that they adopt are being provided appropriately or with desired outcomes. The realities of practice in everyday service provision settings, however, make it difficult to use well-controlled research designs for evaluation purposes in such settings-especially designs involving the use of control groups. The purpose of this article is to provide practitioners in those settings with a new, feasible way to evaluate practice and yield approximate empirical findings that can inform practice decisions despite the absence of a control group. The key feature of this new approach involves the use of within-group effect size benchmarks

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