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The impact of community work : how to gather evidence /

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: McArdle, Karen, 1958- (Author), Briggs, Sue (Strategic development officer) (Author), Forrester, Kirsty (Author), Garrett, Ed (Author), McKay, Catherine (Author)
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bristol : Policy Press, 2020.
Subjects:
Community-based social services > Evaluation.
Service social communautaire > Évaluation.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Front Cover
  • The Impact of Community Work: How to Gather Evidence
  • Copyright information
  • Table of contents
  • List of figures and tables
  • Notes on the authors
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • References
  • Part I Thinking about impact
  • 1 Impact, evidence and transformation
  • Introduction: three case studies
  • The intended audience for the book
  • Social change or transformation
  • Working in the community
  • Principles underpinning community work
  • Statistics and Stories
  • Defining change and impact
  • Transformation
  • The bigger picture
  • Challenge questions
  • 4 Presenting findings to different audiences
  • Introduction
  • Planning your presentation
  • Formality/informality
  • Triple hermeneutic
  • The voice of participants
  • Why present evidence?
  • How to present evidence?
  • Celebration and competitions
  • Choosing what to say
  • Self as author
  • Ethics
  • Visual presentation
  • Distribution of knowledge
  • Challenge questions
  • References
  • 5 Planning and evaluating
  • Introduction
  • Evaluation
  • Planning
  • Radical and freedom research
  • Types of evaluation
  • Stakeholders
  • Critical reflection and self-evaluation
  • Judgement
  • Formative and summative evaluation
  • Mixed methods
  • Cost-benefit analysis
  • On-the-spot evidence gathering
  • Acting on recommendations
  • Challenge questions
  • References
  • 6 Anecdote and observation
  • Introduction
  • Different ways of observing
  • Reasons for using non-participant observation
  • Attribution
  • Challenges
  • Recording observations
  • Analysis of observations
  • Theory
  • Anecdotes
  • Challenge questions
  • References
  • 7 Questionnaires
  • Introduction
  • Pros and cons
  • When to use a questionnaire
  • Questionnaire design
  • Attitudes
  • Question design
  • Language in questions
  • Leading and loaded questions
  • Checklists, rating scales and other structures for responses
  • Coding of data
  • Challenge questions
  • References
  • 8 Interviews and focus groups
  • Introduction
  • Planning interviews
  • Conducting interviews
  • Self-awareness and reflexivity
  • External interviewers
  • Balanced questions
  • Focus groups
  • Clarity of purpose
  • Focus group questions
  • The focus group process
  • Analysis and interpretation of focus groups and interviews
  • Challenge questions
  • Reference
  • 9 Narrative inquiry
  • Introduction
  • Truth