A secondary school wants to research how bullying behaviour develops in the playground. Imagine you are a psychologist brought in from the local education authority to oversee the

Dudley, J. R. (2020). Social work evaluation: Enhancing what we do (3rd ed.). Oxford University Press.
Chapter 8, “Improving How Programs and Practice Work”
Read “Implement the Intervention as Proposed” (pp. 175-179).
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (n.d.). Types of evaluation Links to an external site.. https://www.cdc.gov/std/program/pupestd/types%20of%20evaluation.pdf
TSNE. (2018, June 14). Process evaluation vs. outcome evaluation Links to an external site.. https://www.tsne.org/blog/process-evaluation-vs-outcome-evaluation
Process Evaluation Study
Lachman, J. M., Kelly, J., Cluver, L., Ward, C. L., Hutchings, J., & Gardner, F. (2018). Process evaluation of a parenting program for low-income families in South Africa Links to an external site.. Research on Social Work Practice, 28(2), 188-202. https://doi.org/10.1177/1049731516645665
Identify the process evaluation article that you chose and explain why you selected this example.
Describe the purpose of the evaluation, the informants, the questions asked, and the results of the evaluation.
Identify the stage of program implementation in which the evaluation was conducted.
Consider why the researchers chose to evaluate at that stage of program implementation. What kind of information would they have received if they had conducted the evaluation earlier or later?
If you were to replicate the study, would you adjust it in any way for more optimal results?