Σύγκριση μεθόδων

	Case Management Fidelity Assessment	Program Evaluation in Social Work
Πεδίο	Social Work	Social Work
Οικογένεια	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Έτος προέλευσης	1998	2004
Δημιουργός	Gregory Teague, Gary Bond & Robert Drake (Dartmouth ACT fidelity tradition)	Evaluation-research tradition (Rossi, Lipsey, Freeman); social-work application by Royse, Thyer & Padgett
Τύπος	Structured rating of a case-management program's adherence to a defined service model	Systematic assessment of the need, design, implementation, and outcomes of a program
Θεμελιώδης πηγή	Teague, G. B., Bond, G. R., & Drake, R. E. (1998). Program fidelity in assertive community treatment: Development and use of a measure. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 68(2), 216–232.	Rossi, P. H., Lipsey, M. W., & Freeman, H. E. (2004). Evaluation: A Systematic Approach (7th ed.). SAGE Publications. ISBN: 9780761908944
Εναλλακτικές ονομασίες	Case Management Model Fidelity, Care Coordination Fidelity, Assertive Community Treatment Fidelity, DACTS Fidelity Scale	Social Program Evaluation, Human Services Program Evaluation, Outcome and Process Evaluation, Evaluation Research (Social Work)
Συναφείς	4	4
Σύνοψη	Case management fidelity assessment measures how closely a case-management or care-coordination program matches the defined model it claims to implement — such as assertive community treatment, intensive case management, or a strengths model — by rating specific structural and process dimensions on anchored scales and aggregating them into an overall fidelity score. The approach was established by the Dartmouth tradition of Teague, Bond, and Drake, whose Assertive Community Treatment fidelity scale became the template for measuring whether a program is delivering its model in practice or only in name.	Program evaluation in social work is the systematic application of social-science methods to judge a program's need, design, implementation, outcomes, and efficiency, in order to improve programs and inform decisions about them. Drawing on the evaluation-research tradition of Rossi, Lipsey, and Freeman and adapted for social work by Royse, Thyer, and Padgett, it spans a hierarchy of evaluation questions — from whether a program is needed and well-conceived to whether it is delivered as intended, produces the intended outcomes, and is worth its cost.