women with information about child development and positive parenting techniques. She also leaves time for the women to discuss, within the group, any specific issues that are troubling them with parenting. Many of the women have not had regular contact with their children for a long time. Maritza knows that her program is helpful to these women as they often comment to her informally on how much that they have learned. Write an essay as if you were Maritza, outlining a plan to work with one client. In addition to running her group workshops for incarcerated women, Maritza also counsels most of the women individually. Maritza is planning to work with one client intensively, working on building parenting and self-efficacy skills in two one-on-one sessions each week for 6 months. Maritza would like to employ a single system research design to evaluate the effectiveness of this potential intervention. 1. Identify the most feasible research design for this intervention. 2. Explain your reasoning for choosing the design. 3. Discuss at least two practical or ethical constraints in your evaluation. 4. Discuss at least two threats to validity and how you could address these in your evaluation design. 5. Perform a web search to find a measurement tool that you believe would yield the best data for this type of research. 6. Explain why you think this tool will be helpful. Essay Guidelines Explain your reasoning for choosing the design. A title page The body of the essay (10001200 words; the word count does not include the title or reference page) Use standard margins: 1 on all sides Use standard 12-point font size, Times New Roman or Arial Use standard double-spacing Use left-aligned text, do not right-justify A reference that MUST be used and cited within the paper is: Royse, D., Thyer, B. A., & Padgett, D. K. (2010). An Introduction to Program Evaluation (Fifth Edition ed.). Belmont, California: Cengage Learning.

women with information about child development and positive parenting techniques. She also leaves time for the women to discuss, within the group, any specific issues that are troubling them with parenting. Many of the women have not had regular contact with their children for a long time. Maritza knows that her program is helpful to these women as they often comment to her informally on how much that they have learned. Write an essay as if you were Maritza, outlining a plan to work with one client. In addition to running her group workshops for incarcerated women, Maritza also counsels most of the women individually. Maritza is planning to work with one client intensively, working on building parenting and self-efficacy skills in two one-on-one sessions each week for 6 months. Maritza would like to employ a single system research design to evaluate the effectiveness of this potential intervention. 1. Identify the most feasible research design for this intervention. 2. Explain your reasoning for choosing the design. 3. Discuss at least two practical or ethical constraints in your evaluation. 4. Discuss at least two threats to validity and how you could address these in your evaluation design. 5. Perform a web search to find a measurement tool that you believe would yield the best data for this type of research. 6. Explain why you think this tool will be helpful. Essay Guidelines Explain your reasoning for choosing the design. A title page The body of the essay (10001200 words; the word count does not include the title or reference page) Use standard margins: 1 on all sides Use standard 12-point font size, Times New Roman or Arial Use standard double-spacing Use left-aligned text, do not right-justify A reference that MUST be used and cited within the paper is: Royse, D., Thyer, B. A., & Padgett, D. K. (2010). An Introduction to Program Evaluation (Fifth Edition ed.). Belmont, California: Cengage Learning.