Subject(s): Social Service -- Social Workers -- Evaluation in practice : practitioners evaluating, developing a critical approach to evaluation -- Purposes of evaluation : Evolution and monitoring, research, values, control, good practices -- Facts, truth and values : Developing use of evaluation, developing misuse of evaluation, evaluation and scientific methods, values and scientific methods, politics of evaluation, causality and evaluation, evaluating for good practice -- Measuring performance : Performance measurement and performance indicators, frame works for measuring performance, measuring performance as a means of control, ways forward in performance measurement, prospects for development -- Towards a critical approach to evaluation : Critical evaluators, interpretivist evaluations, formative and summative evaluation, illuminative evaluation, actors and stakeholders, pluralist evaluation, fourth-generation evaluation, towards a critical evaluation, contribution of post modernist theory to evaluation -- Designs for critical evaluation : Resource map for generating evidence -- Generating evidence about practice : Practice and practitioner, understanding methods, well-tierd and test research methods, dialogical methods, supervision as an evaluative process -- Making judgements and effecting change : Need for judgement making, interpreting data and evidence, responsibilities of evaluator, values standards and notion of the good, democracy and rights in evaluation