Martin Bloom’s research while affiliated with Washington University in St. Louis and other places

This paper analyzes recent research in social work education in terms of (1) issues identified, such as conceptual clarity of terms, validity, reliability, and outcome or process measures; (2) categories of evaluative procedures in which distinctions between subject-data and observer-data, intrusive and non-reactive data are made; and (3) general direction of social work education research. Implications of using a prebehavioral (judgmental), behavioral, or postbehavioral (problem-solving) solution to the problems of this type of research are discussed.