Evaluating Social Work Education: A Review of Outcomes, Measures, Research Designs and Practicalities.
This review considers how the outcomes of social work education can be identified with reference to Kirkpatrick's framework of levels of outcomes and Kraiger et al.'s general model of learning outcomes. It presents examples of different approaches to the measurement of outcomes and to the use of res...
| Published in: | Social Work Education Vol. 30; no. 2; pp. 122 - 141 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Mar2011
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