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GD100 - Making Sense of Experience: Evaluation and Reflective Practice.
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| CREDIT POINTS: |
15 |
| PREREQUISITES: |
Perspectives in Drugs Use;
AOD Treatment, Assessment and Planning. |
| COST: |
$1,000 |
| DATES: |
1st Semester 2009 |
| SUBJECT COORDINATOR: |
Bridget Roberts |
| CENSUS DATE: |
Not available in 2008 |
Note: Available for Graduate Diploma students only
SUBJECT/UNIT SUMMARY:
Society's
response to alcohol and drug problems must continually evolve.
Healthy organisations, teams and individuals have a culture
of ongoing learning. This unit offers concepts and processes
for integrating experience with reflection and theory with
practice. It will help equip you for lifelong development
of your professional practice in alcohol and drug services.
Reflective practice assists practitioners to study their day to day experience, examine their beliefs and actions and continuously modify their practice and their plans.
Evaluation is another learning process that draws on the tradition of experiential learning. Organisations are increasingly building evaluation processes into their work, drawing on a wealth of tools and techniques. Basic evaluation literacy is a valuable resource for practitioners who want to provide effective, responsive services.
The subject is an opportunity to explore reflective practice and evaluation and consider how to weave these theories and skills into alcohol and drug service delivery and management.
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SUBJECT/UNIT OBJECTIVES:
At the end of this subject, students should be able to:
- Describe basic reflective practice principles and methods
- Analyse the role of personal reflection, supervision, mentoring, team and organisational processes in reflective practice
- Design a personal approach to reflective practice
- Describe a range of evaluation uses and approaches as they apply to alcohol and drug services
- Explain the major tasks in program evaluation including:
- planning
- working with stakeholders
- evaluation design
- methodology
- data collection
- data analysis
- reporting
- Appraise relevant evaluation reports, including the strengths and weaknesses of the evaluation design, methodology and findings.
- Discuss the relevance of reflective practice and evaluation to professional development and to the provision of quality services
ASSESSMENT:
- Assessment 1 Assignment (1,000 words) (25%)
- Assessment 2 (1000 words) (25%)
- Critically analyse three published evaluation reports or
- Review your workplace’s use of evaluation or
- Describe an evaluation project that could be implemented in your workplace. or
- Workplace assignment and report as negotiated
- Assessment 3 Assignment (2000 words) (50%)
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