Postgraduate Course: Approaches to Child Protection Evaluation (EDUA11315)
Course Outline
| School | Moray House School of Education |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Available to all students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Credits | 20 |
| Home subject area | Education |
Other subject area | None |
| Course website |
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Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | This course provides an introduction to commissioning, conducting and designing evaluations in child protection and will explore different types of evaluation, development of evaluation indicators, objectives and plans. This course will also critically examine the literature on ¿what works¿ in child maltreatment prevention and response. |
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus? | No |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
1. On completion of the course, students will be able to:
Demonstrate an advanced understanding of evaluation approaches including process, impact and outcome evaluations.
2. Critically analyse and develop measurable direct and proxy indicators to demonstrate improvements in child protection response and prevention.
3. Compare and contrast causal pathways and theories of change in child protection and apply these in evaluation frameworks.
4. Synthesise key literature on evidence-based and promising practices for child protection prevention and response.
5. Demonstrate logic modelling frameworks for child protection prevention and response interventions, and
Critically explore evaluation approaches in order to choose the most appropriate approach for a variety of settings including complex emergencies and post-conflict settings.
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Assessment Information
Task 1 (25%) Development of an MDG Indicator on Child Protection. Students will work in teams to develop 1-2 indicators that could be applied globally to measuring a reduction in child abuse, neglect and/or youth violence. This short paper will need to draw on existing research and display knowledge of the varying contexts and levels of routine data collection available in countries worldwide.
Task 2 (75%) Evaluation Plan (3,000 words) Students will choose an existing primary prevention or response initiative and will develop an evaluation plan that would measure the process and outcomes of the given initiative.
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Special Arrangements
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Additional Information
| Academic description |
Not entered |
| Syllabus |
Introduction to Evaluation in child protection
Evaluation designs
Evaluation in practice
Developing indicators for child protection evaluations
What works in child protection?
Applying causal pathways in child protection evaluations
Promising practices for child protection prevention and response
The costs and consequences of child abuse and neglect
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| Transferable skills |
Not entered |
| Reading list |
Additional Course Reading
-Quinn Patton, M. 2008 Utilization-Focused Evaluation. 4th edition Sage: New York
-NICE Moving beyond effectiveness in evidence synthesis
Methodological issues in the synthesis of diverse sources of evidence( Jenny Popay ed)
- Fry, D. Youth Violence Prevention Reader: A Systematic Review of Reviews of What Works in Youth Violence Prevention with a particular emphasis on low- and middle-income countries. Geneva: World Health Organization, 2013.
- Taylor, J.; Daniel, B.; Scott, J.
Towards an international agenda for child neglect: methodological issues from a systematic review DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2206.1999.00109.x
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| Study Abroad |
Not entered |
| Study Pattern |
Not entered |
| Keywords | child protection, research methods |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Ms Deborah Fry
Tel: (0131 6)51 4796
Email: Debi.Fry@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | |
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