The purpose of this course is to develop students' abilities to use qualitative and quantitative methods to describe real world situations in social work settings and make inferences based on that information in order to improve social policy decisions and service delivery programs. Students will develop skills to: assess the value and limitations of program data for important organizational and policy decisions; understand, apply, and describe measures of central tendency and variability to various types of program data with a variety of types of scales; judge what basic statistical methods are appropriate in common policy and program evaluation situations and apply them; construct meaningful charts, tables, and graphs; and use clear, concise, dispassionate language to clarify the meaning of program data and explain whatever inferences can be made from such data.
| Semester: | Winter 1998 |
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| Instructor: | William C. Birdsall |
| Category: | SPE Methods |
| Program Type:
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Program Type describes the program in which you are pursuing, i.e., residential or online part-time.
At this time, residential students may not directly enroll in online program courses, rather a course enrollment petition is required.
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Residential |
| Credits: | 3 Credit Hours |
University of Michigan
School of Social Work
1080 South University Avenue
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1106