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Building capacity and capability for evaluating the outcomes of social work education (the OSWE Project): creating a culture change

Building capacity and capability for evaluating the outcomes of social work education (the OSWE Project): creating a culture change
Building capacity and capability for evaluating the outcomes of social work education (the OSWE Project): creating a culture change
This paper describes and analyses the first year of a three-year project in the UK to build capacity and capability in evaluating the outcomes of social work education. A facilitated action learning set was established for six university social work programmes, involving in different ways academic, practice, service user and carer educators, who met to develop research projects focussed on measuring the outcomes of social work education. We outline the genesis of the project, and discuss the context in terms of both pedagogic research and social work education. We describe the activities undertaken in its first year, including the evaluation strategy. Some emerging findings are presented concerning the levels of learning outcomes being assessed; the role of the evaluator; the importance of engaging colleagues and students; service user and carer participation; and the positive features of the learning set. Plans for the remaining two years are outlined, including the piloting of outcome measures. Finally we reframe the model as it emerged in practice, extracting key elements for capacity building.
evaluation, outcomes, pedagogic research, research capacity building, action learning
0261-5479
898-912
Burgess, Hilary
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Carpenter, John
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Burgess, Hilary
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Carpenter, John
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Burgess, Hilary and Carpenter, John (2008) Building capacity and capability for evaluating the outcomes of social work education (the OSWE Project): creating a culture change. Social Work Education, 27 (8), 898-912. (doi:10.1080/02615470701844308).

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This paper describes and analyses the first year of a three-year project in the UK to build capacity and capability in evaluating the outcomes of social work education. A facilitated action learning set was established for six university social work programmes, involving in different ways academic, practice, service user and carer educators, who met to develop research projects focussed on measuring the outcomes of social work education. We outline the genesis of the project, and discuss the context in terms of both pedagogic research and social work education. We describe the activities undertaken in its first year, including the evaluation strategy. Some emerging findings are presented concerning the levels of learning outcomes being assessed; the role of the evaluator; the importance of engaging colleagues and students; service user and carer participation; and the positive features of the learning set. Plans for the remaining two years are outlined, including the piloting of outcome measures. Finally we reframe the model as it emerged in practice, extracting key elements for capacity building.

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Published date: December 2008
Keywords: evaluation, outcomes, pedagogic research, research capacity building, action learning

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Local EPrints ID: 155197
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/155197
ISSN: 0261-5479
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Date deposited: 27 May 2010 10:08
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Author: Hilary Burgess
Author: John Carpenter

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