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“I Thought I Hated Data”: Preparing MSW Students for Data-driven Practice
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In this article, the authors describe one university's efforts to design and implement coursework opportunities for students to integrate the use of actual data to answer pertinent real-world research and evaluation questions.Abstract:
Social work is an applied profession using a combination of theory, research, and practice to meet the needs of client populations. First-hand experiential learning is central to social work education. Just as students learn clinical skills by interacting with clients in a practice setting, students need a forum to use real data to develop their skills in accessing, understanding, interpreting, and presenting answers to pertinent social work research questions. This paper describes one university's efforts to design and implement coursework opportunities for students to integrate the use of actual data to answer pertinent real-world research and evaluation questions.read more
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Advancing Social Work Practice Research Education – An Innovative, Experiential Pedagogical Approach
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe and evaluate six sets of experiential class and field activities designed to increase graduate level social work students' competencies of practice research, including case studies, case-based learning, single-system research design, and class activity on presentation and dissemination of research findings.
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Equipping the child welfare workforce to improve the well-being of children
TL;DR: The barriers to providing mental health services to vulnerable children and families are analyzed and three evidence-based ways of overcoming them are discussed.
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Building Analytic Capacity and Statistical Literacy Among Title IV-E MSW Students.
TL;DR: The research curriculum described in the article was developed to provide Title IV-E students with hands-on opportunities to become experienced and “statistically literate” users of aggregated public child welfare data from California's administrative child welfare system, attending to the often missing link between data/research and practice improvement.
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Teaching Data Analysis to the Data-Averse: A Framework for Educators
Christa Fouché,Allen Bartley +1 more
TL;DR: An initiative to design a research course focused on the integration of research with practice, where participating social work students gained experience in conducting analyses of existing data.
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Teaching Macro Social Work through Experiential Learning: Student Reflections on Lessons Learned in Building School-Community Partnerships
TL;DR: In this paper, a faculty-led experiential learning project was implemented with Master of Social Work students at their field placement sites to teach macro practice skills and research methods, where their practice focused on individual and small group interventions with youth.
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Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards: Do They Work for Clients?
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Difficulties Experienced by Education and Sociology Students in Quantitative Methods Courses
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TL;DR: This paper found that students tend to polarise the academic subjects into "easier" language, major and qualitative subjects, and "harder" mathematical, statistical and quantitative subjects, finding that statistics and quantitative methods were experienced as more difficult than other domains, such as qualitative methods and the students' main subject.
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Teaching Statistics without Sadistics
TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe five steps in a developmental research project designed to take the sadistics out of statistics, and identify the instructional objectives and procedures to achieve them, and explore methods and tools for evaluating the course.