SLWK 606 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Needs Assessment
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Evaluations can satisfy workers" curiosity and professional concerns about the effects of specific interventions they perform while working with a group. Information from evaluations can help workers improve their leadership skills. Evaluations can demonstrate the usefulness of a specific group or a specific group work method to an agency, a funding source, or society. Workers can assess the progress of group members and see whether the group is accomplishing agreed on purposes. Evaluations allow group members and others who may be affected to express their satisfactions and dissatisfactions with a group. Workers can gather knowledge that can be shared with others who are using group methods for similar purposes and in similar situations. Workers can systematize and make overt the covert hypothesis-generating and hypothesis-testing processes they routinely engage in as they practice. Evaluations can examine the cost-effectiveness of group work services. Self-reports or personal interview data from workers, members, and observers.
