This course introduces the study of research design and methodology as a separate body of information with particular relevance to a variety of social work practice issues. The need for social workers to address such questions as agency and program accountability, program effectiveness, community, group, family, and individual needs and assessment is emphasized and illustrated in empirically based research reports and articles. This course prepares students for the role of the professional research producer. It examines the relationships among: the purposes of research (exploring, describ ing and explaining phenomena), and approaches to research, as well as the basic uses of data in research and the interpretation of figures and tables.
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