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Validating the Psychological Climate Scale in Voluntary Child Welfare
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Zeitlin, Wendy; Claiborne, Nancy; Lawrence, Catherine K.; Auerbach, Charles – Research on Social Work Practice, 2016
Objective: Organizational climate has emerged as an important factor in understanding and addressing the complexities of providing services in child welfare. This research examines the psychometric properties of each of the dimensions of Parker and colleagues' Psychological Climate Survey in a sample of voluntary child welfare workers. Methods:…
Descriptors: Program Validation, Psychological Evaluation, Psychological Studies, Child Welfare
Risk Assessment Stability: A Revalidation Study of the Arizona Risk/Needs Assessment Instrument
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Schwalbe, Craig S. – Research on Social Work Practice, 2009
The actuarial method is the gold standard for risk assessment in child welfare, juvenile justice, and criminal justice. It produces risk classifications that are highly predictive and that may be robust to sampling error. This article reports a revalidation study of the Arizona Risk/Needs Assessment instrument, an actuarial instrument for juvenile…
Descriptors: Needs Assessment, Child Welfare, Predictive Validity, Juvenile Justice
National Child and Youth Care Practitioner Professional Certification: Promoting Competent Care for Children and Youth
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Curry, Dale; Eckles, Frank; Stuart, Carol; Qaqish, Basil – Child Welfare, 2010
This article provides an overview of the history, development, and conceptual framework guiding a national certification initiative for child and youth care workers. Summarized are descriptions of three certification assessment measures (supervisor assessment, situational judgment certification exam, and portfolio assessment), integrated with…
Descriptors: Caring, Portfolio Assessment, Program Effectiveness, Teacher Certification
The Development of the Children's Services Statistical Neighbour Benchmarking Model. Final Report
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Benton, Tom; Chamberlain, Tamsin; Wilson, Rebekah; Teeman, David – National Foundation for Educational Research, 2007
In April 2006, the Department for Education and Skills (DfES) commissioned the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) to conduct an independent external review in order to develop a single "statistical neighbour" model. This single model aimed to combine the key elements of the different models currently available and be…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis, Benchmarking, Research Reports
Do Social Workers Make Better Child Welfare Workers than Non-Social Workers?
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Perry, Robin E. – Research on Social Work Practice, 2006
Objective: To empirically examine whether the educational background of child welfare workers in Florida impacts on performance evaluations of their work. Method: A proportionate, stratified random sample of supervisor and peer evaluations of child protective investigators and child protective service workers is conducted. ANOVA procedures are…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Predictor Variables, Educational Background, Social Work
Registration: Evaluation of a Regulatory Concept. Final Report on the Texas Department of Human Resources Registered Family Homes Research and Evaluation Project.
Nowak, Joanna E., Comp. – 1979
This document presents data from an evaluation designed to investigate the regulation of family day care homes in Texas. Since January 1, 1976 all such facilities providing regular care, defined as on-going care, have been required to register as family day care homes. Evaluation data revealed that between January, 1976 and July, 1978 the number…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Certification, Child Abuse, Child Welfare