Faculty of Regional Professional Studies (Bunbury)

School: Regional Professional Studies

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Human Services Program Management and Evaluation
  • Unit Code

    SWK6114
  • Year

    2015
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    Online

Description

Social workers are increasingly required to design, manage and evaluate projects as part of their practice. In this unit students will design project concept, plan and evaluation strategy for a project idea that they can develop and use in their social work workplace or equivalent real world situation. Students will learn how to take a project from an initial idea, to a fully developed project plan complete with evaluation strategy.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Demonstrate an ability to accurately cost a project taking into account costs and benefits.
  2. Design a project plan for a new innovation, improvement, or service response within the student's workplace or equivalent.
  3. Design an evaluation methodology and evaluation tools relevant to assessing the project design, aims and outcomes.
  4. Utilise national and international research to inform project development.

Unit Content

  1. Costing and budgeting projects.
  2. Creating effective timelines.
  3. Designing evaluation strategies and methodologies.
  4. Evaluation techniques and methods.
  5. Identifying and managing risks and ethical issues.
  6. Presenting new ideas to a specialist and non-specialist audience.
  7. Project planning and scope statements.
  8. Using research to inform project conceptualisation.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Students engage in weekly online learning activities via Blackboard, ECU's learning management system. Regular online access is required. Social interaction is facilitated with the use of discussion boards and other collaborative tools, moderated by the online tutor/lecturer. All assessments are submitted electronically.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentProject Plan10%
AssignmentProject Scope Statement50%
AssignmentEvaluation Methodology40%

Text References

  • Lock, D. (2013). Naked project management: The bare facts. Farnham, United Kingdom: Ashgate Publishing Ltd.
  • Roberts, P. (2013). Guide to project management: Getting it right and achieving lasting benefit. (2nd ed.). New York: Wiley.
  • Dwyer, J., Liang, Z., Thiessen, V., & Martini, A. (2013). Project management in health and community services. (2nd ed.). Australia: Allen and Unwin.
  • Wholey, J.S., Hatry, H.P., & Newcomer, K.E. (Eds.) (2010). Handbook of practical program evaluation. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
  • Spolander, G. (2012). Successful project management in social work and social care. London, UK: Jessica Kingsley Publishers.

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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Faculty of Regional Professional Studies (Bunbury)

School: Regional Professional Studies

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Human Services Program Management and Evaluation
  • Unit Code

    SWK6114
  • Year

    2015
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    Online

Description

Social workers are increasingly required to design, manage and evaluate projects as part of their practice. In this unit students will design project concept, plan and evaluation strategy for a project idea that they can develop and use in their social work workplace or equivalent real world situation. Students will learn how to take a project from an initial idea, to a fully developed project plan complete with evaluation strategy.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Demonstrate an ability to accurately cost a project taking into account costs and benefits.
  2. Design a project plan for a new innovation, improvement, or service response within the student's workplace or equivalent.
  3. Design an evaluation methodology and evaluation tools relevant to assessing the project design, aims and outcomes.
  4. Utilise national and international research to inform project development.

Unit Content

  1. Costing and budgeting projects.
  2. Creating effective timelines.
  3. Designing evaluation strategies and methodologies.
  4. Evaluation techniques and methods.
  5. Identifying and managing risks and ethical issues.
  6. Presenting new ideas to a specialist and non-specialist audience.
  7. Project planning and scope statements.
  8. Using research to inform project conceptualisation.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Students engage in weekly online learning activities via Blackboard, ECU's learning management system. Regular online access is required. Social interaction is facilitated with the use of discussion boards and other collaborative tools, moderated by the online tutor/lecturer. All assessments are submitted electronically.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentProject Plan10%
AssignmentProject Scope Statement50%
AssignmentEvaluation Methodology40%

Text References

  • Dwyer, J., Liang, Z., Thiessen, V., & Martini, A. (2013). Project management in health and community services. (2nd ed.). Australia: Allen and Unwin.
  • Lock, D. (2013). Naked project management: The bare facts. Farnham, United Kingdom: Ashgate Publishing Ltd.
  • Roberts, P. (2013). Guide to project management: Getting it right and achieving lasting benefit. (2nd ed.). New York: Wiley.
  • Spolander, G. (2012). Successful project management in social work and social care. London, UK: Jessica Kingsley Publishers.
  • ^ Kettner, P.M., Moroney, R.M., & Martin, L.L. (2013). Designing and managing programs: An effectiveness-based approach (4th ed.). USA: Sage Publications, Inc.
  • Wholey, J.S., Hatry, H.P., & Newcomer, K.E. (Eds.) (2010). Handbook of practical program evaluation. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

^ Mandatory reference


Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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