Evaluation and Social Work (5cr)
Code: KF21VVO10-3001
General information
- Enrollment
- 02.12.2016 - 31.12.2016
- Registration for the implementation has ended.
- Timing
- 01.01.2017 - 31.05.2018
- Implementation has ended.
- Number of ECTS credits allocated
- 5 cr
- Local portion
- 5 cr
- Mode of delivery
- Contact learning
- Degree programmes
- Master's Degree in Social Services and Health Care, Social Work
- Teachers
- Minna Zechner
- Course
- KF21VVO10
Objective
Student is knowledgeable on the evaluation and the role it has in social work and is critically able to address the meaning, means and targets of evaluation.
Content
Evaluation, when setting targets for social work and when working with clients as well as when assessing the efficiency of social work, is essential part of social work. Evaluation is based on the dea that there is something worth aiming for and some means are selected for getting there. Student reads the given material and writes an essay of six pages about evaluation in social work. Essay must b´ring fore different sides of evaluation and studetn must have a critical stance towards it.
Teaching methods
Distance learning.
Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)
Grading: pass/fail:
Student is able to describe evaluation as part of social work and cirically assess various dimensions of it.
Qualifications
No previous studies are required.