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Evaluating Practice: Guidelines for the Accountable Professional (6th Edition) | 
| Authors: Martin Bloom, Joel Fischer, John G. Orme
Publisher: Allyn Bacon
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 267411
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 6
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 640
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.5
Dimensions (in): 9.5 x 7.8 x 1.3
ISBN: 0205612016
Dewey Decimal Number: 361.0068
EAN: 9780205612017
ASIN: 0205612016
Publication Date: January 3, 2009 (New: This Week)
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P style="MARGIN: 0px"Evaluating Practice Sixth Edition continues to be the most comprehensive practice evaluation text available. /P P style="MARGIN: 0px"Focusing on single-system designs, IEvaluating Practice/I, I6/e/I presents clear guidelines on conceptualizing and measuring problems, developing practice-oriented evaluation designs, understanding and analyzing data, and ethical guidelines for practice evaluation. It is specifically written for students and practitioners in all the human services, including social work, psychology, counseling, nursing and psychiatry. Unsurpassed among human service evaluation texts for bringing clarity to evaluation procedures, IEvaluating Practice /Icomes with a free CD-ROM featuring numerous programs, including the innovative SINGWIN program for analyzing data (created by Charles Auerbach, David Schnall, and Heidi Heft Laporte of Lehman College of the City University of New York, the CASS and CAAP programs (created by Walter Hudson) for managing cases and scoring scales and Microsoft Excel workbooks and interactive exercises. /P P style="MARGIN: 0px" /P
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 Good Service September 23, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I am happy with the service I received from Amazon. My book came a week or two after I ordered it and it was in great condition.
A great text book... January 1, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I ordered this textbook for an MSW course, and it's wonderful. I love all the examples and the software that comes with it.
Another Edition to a fantastic text August 10, 2005
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
This new edition of the text once again proves that these authors are the masters of single subject research. I have used this text for five years in my graduate methods course and am completely satisfied with their coverage of the material of single subject research design. Just when a researcher thought it could not get any better, this new edition comes along with updates to the software. br /br /Get this book.
 enough is enough March 22, 2005
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I was pleased to hear that this text had been assigned in a graduate research course at my graduate school of social work. I'm seriously disappointed. I would not recommend this text's continued use. It is excessively repetitive, constantly restating previous material (commonly referred to as 'rehashing'), and, as a sidebar, i can't help but mention an irritating habit of unnecessary references to material yet to come ('we'll talk about that more in chapter 14.'). The writing style is terribly wordy, and in a weighted, clunky pseudo-conversational style that rarely is effective in a textbook. The actual technical information is obscured in a constant river of verbiage, usually in page after page of solid block text, the least helpful format when learning technical information (or when subsequently searching for specific information or techniques). The result? It serves as a strong sedative. Finally, the authors repeatedly express apologies, in what eventually (by page 350) feels like an obsequious and cloying manner, for putting forward an empirical and accountable approach to clinical practice. The worst, though, is the repetition of material, as if the reader were an idiot. The sheer relentlessness of it is what is so galling, and at $100 bucks, neither affordable nor worth the investment. There are other texts out there with clearer, cleaner, more articulate prose, that are more respectful of the reader, and at half the price, such as the classic and affordable: Single-Case Research Designs: Methods for Clinical and Applied Settings by Alan E. Kazdin. Ignore the pollyanna reviews above and below, and avoid this text, or if on the syllabus, protest and suggest an alternative.
A Classic in Practice Evaluation November 13, 2003
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Bloom, Fischer and Orme continue to make an unique contribution to improving practice in the human services by providing a road map by which practitioners can evaluate their effectiveness. I've been using their text book for over 15 years in teaching practice evaluation and in has been an invaluable help. The new edition has a CD Rom with SingWin, CAAP,and CAAS which I was able to install in Windows XP Home edition. You must install CAAS before CAAP for it to work. The sofware computerizes record keeping, score computation, and graph construction. I strongly reccommend this textbook for human services faculty.
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