Università Roma Tre

The purpose of this laboratory is to provide knowledges and tools about the evaluation process in the field of italian social services, in comparation with the European context. The activity consists in workshop classes and it will expect an active student engagement.
This teaching allows the attainment of 3 CFU and it requires 18 hours for completion.
The laboratory's objective is to analize the following items:
• The historical evolution of the evaluation: from the social diagnosis of Mary Richmond (1915) to the contemporary tools.
• Analysis of the evaluation’s different meanings and objectives: assessment, evaluation, ex ante, in itinere, ex post.
• Italian and European Laws and their application in the local social services.
• Context of application: casework, services, planning, projects.
• Models of evaluation and the concept of quality.
• Tecnique and tools: check-list, questionnaire, survey, self-evaluation test, interview, markers.
• Stakeholders of evaluation
• The relation between evaluation and social research
• Objections and Oppositions against the evaluation.

The activities will be integrated with the others subjects of the Course.

Testi di riferimento:
• Campanini A. (2006), La valutazione nel servizio sociale, Carocci Faber, Roma
• De Ambrogio U., Bertotti T., Merlini F. (2007), L’assistente sociale e la valutazione, Carocci Faber, Roma
• Sicora A .(2008),Motivazioni e finalità della valutazione nel servizio sociale, in “Studi Zancan”, n. 1
• NeveE. (2010), Rischi e timori di tecnicismo nell’uso di strumenti di valutazione professionale, in “Studi Zancan”, n. 6

I testi potranno subire delle modifiche o integrazioni che verranno comunicate all’inizio del corso.