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Statistics in Policy Analysis and Evaluation

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SW673, Section 002

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: Fall 2004
Instructor: Tapia Granados, Jose A.
Category: SPE Methods
U-M Class #: 26740
Program Type: Residential
Credits: 3 Credit Hours

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