SOWK 351 Social Research

General

• Apply appropriate research methods to the agency-based project with the special focus of performing practice evaluation and/or program evaluation
• Apply appropriate research methods to the agency-based project.
• Assess the appropriateness of different research methods for communities of color and other populations-at-risk
• Critically assess research decisions from an ethical framework.
• Critically assess research studies for their application to generalist social work practice.
• Critically assess the literature to identify evidence-based research studies for their application to generalist social work issues/topics/problems.
• Critically use social science findings in the problem-solving stages of generalist social work practice.
• Identify an appropriate student research question that is acceptable to the field agency.
• In consultation with the research instructor, field instructor, and agency personnel, design a "do-able" research project.
• Present the findings and recommendations of the study to agency staff.
• Understand the basic assumptions, methods and usefulness of social science research with emphasis on single-subject, field and survey methods
• Write a usable research study with applications for use at the agency level.