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The impact of community work : how to gather evidence / Karen McArdle, Sue Briggs, Kirsty Forrester, Ed Garrett and Catherine McKay.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McArdle, Karen, 1958- author.
- Briggs, Sue (Strategic development officer), author.
- Forrester, Kirsty, author.
- Garrett, Ed, author.
- McKay, Catherine, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Community-based social services--Evaluation.
- Community-based social services.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol : Policy Press, 2020.
- 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
- 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
- 5 Planning and evaluating
- 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
- 6 Anecdote and observation
- Different ways of observing
- Reasons for using non-participant observation
- Attribution
- Challenges
- Recording observations
- Analysis of observations
- Theory
- Anecdotes
- 7 Questionnaires
- 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
- 8 Interviews and focus groups
- 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
- Reference
- 9 Narrative inquiry
- Truth
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
- Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 20, 2020).
- Other Format:
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 1447343956
- 9781447343950
- Publisher Number:
- 90104117869
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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