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Social Work: Research

所在平台: EdxArchive

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大学或机构: MichiganX

授课老师： Brian E. Perron

课程主页: https://www.edx.org/archive/social-work-research-michiganx-sw522x

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Learn about the importance of an evidence-based approach in social work practice and how to conduct effective research.

课程大纲

  1. Act as a critical consumer and contributor of the design, methodology, and conclusions of social work and social and behavioral science research publications.
  2. Locate, assess and critique research studies so as to draw appropriate inference, particularly as it affects diverse populations at risk (dimension: ability, age, class, color, culture, ethnicity, family structure, gender [including gender identity and gender expression], marital status, national origin, race, religion or spirituality, sex, and sexual orientation).
  3. Know the NASW Code of Ethics and appropriately apply it in the conduct of social work research.

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Understand social work practice through the critical examination of methods associated with decision-making, critical thinking, and ethical judgment.

The course integrates the core themes related to multiculturalism and diversity; social justice and social change; promotion, prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation; and behavioral and social science research.

You will learn how to formulate appropriate research questions and hypotheses, techniques for testing relationships and patterns among variables, methods of data collection, methods to assess and improve the validity and reliability of data and measures, and the ethics of scientific inquiry.

This course will cover:

• quantitative and qualitative research methods

• commonly used statistical procedures

• approaches to the evaluation of practice

Learn how to understand and appreciate a scientific approach to building practice knowledge and for evaluating practice, and to use research to advocate for clients and inform policy. Special emphasis will be placed on increasing one's ability to formulate research questions, apply research methods, conduct statistical analysis, and interpret research reports. The latest statistical, graphical, and display technologies will be used.

This course is part of the Social Work: Practice, Policy and Research MicroMasters offered by MichiganX.

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