TY - JOUR
T1 - Designing Evaluations in Child Welfare Organizations
T2 - An Approach for Administrators
AU - Lawrence, Catherine
AU - Strolin-Goltzman, Jessica
AU - Caringi, James
AU - Claiborne, Nancy
AU - McCarthy, Mary
AU - Butts, Erin
AU - O'Connell, Kelsey
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Evaluations in child welfare settings present challenges and opportunities for administrators. This paper presents a framework for considering such evaluations and proposes mixed methods to assess participatory interventions for sustainable organizational change. A progression of three studies illustrates this approach and draws on results to demonstrate how evaluation designs impact findings.
AB - Evaluations in child welfare settings present challenges and opportunities for administrators. This paper presents a framework for considering such evaluations and proposes mixed methods to assess participatory interventions for sustainable organizational change. A progression of three studies illustrates this approach and draws on results to demonstrate how evaluation designs impact findings.
KW - child welfare
KW - mixed method research
KW - organizational interventions
KW - participatory action research
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84871569539&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/03643107.2011.607887
DO - 10.1080/03643107.2011.607887
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84871569539
SN - 0364-3107
VL - 37
SP - 3
EP - 13
JO - Administration in Social Work
JF - Administration in Social Work
IS - 1
ER -