• 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.
    
    
• Student/Graduate Evaluation: CalSWEC conducts the following three ongoing evaluations studies to assess outcomes in terms of learning and employment.
  
  
  • Entry-Graduation Student Surveys: Conducted with all entering and exiting MSWs in the participating CalSWEC schools from 1991 to 2003; data collection has been completed, and a monograph is being developed.
    
    
  • Graduate Student Surveys: 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.
    
    
  • Retention Study: Begun in 1996, 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. Data collected through 2004 will be used to develop a monograph.
    
    
  • Workforce Study: Conducted every three years to survey the market for professional social workers in California public child welfare agencies. The 2004 California Public Child Welfare Workforce Study (April 2005) is now available for downloading.
    

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