• Educational Curriculum Evaluation: CalSWEC evaluates the Title IV-E program curriculum on a continuing basis with the following three components.
  
  
  • Competency Review and Revision: a periodic process to insure that CalSWEC social work competencies reflect current social work practice and the California child welfare curriculum principles.
    
    
  • Curriculum Snapshot: a standardized documentation submitted every two years by each of the participating schools, containing detailed information about the coverage of the competencies, classroom and field placement learning, university-agency partnerships, any gaps in the curriculum, and resources needed to fill the gaps.
    
    
  • New Graduate Survey: an outgrowth of the student focus groups, intended to gain information from graduating MSWs about how well they feel the curriculum prepared them for child welfare practice.
    
    
• Graduate Evaluation: CalSWEC conducts the following two ongoing evaluation studies to assess outcomes in terms of learning and employment.
  
  
  • Career Path Study: Initially begun in 1996 as an ongoing study of CalSWEC Title IV-E MSWs who have completed their payback obligation in public child welfare to assess the factors that contribute to the retention of child welfare workers. This has been modified to study Title IV-E graduate's careers to gain knowledge about retention factors over a 10-year period.
    
    
  • Workforce Study: Conducted every three years to survey the market for professional social workers in California public child welfare agencies. The 2008 California Public Child Welfare Workforce Study (May 2009) is available for downloading.
    
    
• Technical reports, presentations, publications, and unpublished reports

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