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 Academic Year:
| 2013/4 |
| Owning Department/School:
| Department of Social & Policy Sciences |
| Credits:
| 6 |
| Level:
| Intermediate (FHEQ level 5) |
| Period: |
Semester 2 |
| Assessment:
| CW 100% |
| Supplementary Assessment: |
Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations) |
| Requisites:
| Before taking this unit you must take SP10001 and take SP10002 |
| Description:
| Aims: The aims of the unit are to: i. Develop an understanding of the principal approaches to social policy evaluation; ii. Develop the capacity to apply appropriately these approaches to policy examples and to critically appraise evaluation evidence. Learning Outcomes: By the end of the unit the students should be able to: * Understand the role of social policy evaluation in the policy cycle; * Compare and contrast the strengths of the different evaluation approaches and their uses in different settings; * Understand the benefits of good policy evaluation; * Interpret and understand the limitations of evaluations' results; * Critically engage with and review evaluation evidence. Skills: * To think creatively and analytically * To communicate an argument * To evaluate others' arguments and research * To learn independently and be able to assess own learning needs (i.e. identify strengths and improve weaknesses in methods of learning and studying). * To critically evaluate and assess research and evidence as well as a variety of other information. * To gather information, data, research and literature from a number of different sources (i.e. library, web-based, archives etc.). * To select appropriate and relevant information from a wide source and large body of knowledge. * To synthesise information from a number of sources in order to gain a coherent understanding. * To utilise problem solving skills. * Study & Learning skills (note taking, avoiding plagiarism, using the library, gathering and using information, constructing a bibliography, referencing) * Basic Information and Computing Technology skills (word processing, email, using the web to search for information) * Inter-personal and communication skills * Essay research, preparation and writing skills * To construct a bibliography of varying complexity * Time-management and administrative skills * Presentation skills and verbal communication (i.e. oral presentations, seminar and tutorial contributions). Content: What is evaluation and why evaluate? Evaluation methodology; Effectiveness, efficiency and economy; Performance indicators, outcomes and quality assessment; Illuminative evaluation; The evaluation of innovation; The politics and organisation of evaluation; Learning through experience. |
| Programme availability: |
SP20010 is Compulsory on the following programmes:Department of Social & Policy Sciences
SP20010 is Optional on the following programmes:Department of Social & Policy Sciences
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