By: Angelys Valdez
Benchmarks are important especially when trying to make a comparison. Benchmarks are a standard against where things can be compared or measured. According to businessnewsdaily.com, benchmarking in business can be useful for measuring your company’s quality, performance and growth by analyzing the processes and procedures of others. Benchmarks are used in many fields of work including social work. Bencmarks are used for research to measure where the client is at. The results can help the social work researcher find the best intervention (solution) for the client and their needs.
This graph measures which group qualifies for a grant from a social work agency. The benchmark percentage criteria is 65%, so only Group C qualified. Some social work courses actually use benchmarks to determine how much the students know about the Social Work Competencies. "Self-studies for reaffirmation of accreditation required that programs used multiple measures, and program-defined bench- marks, to assess student performance of each Core Competency at the Practice Behavior level." (Sullivan, 2020). Benchmarks are useful in all forms of social work even learning in the social work program.
I love how you tied it into social work and the charts you chose are prime examples of benchmarks. The only suggestion I could give would be to perhaps emphasize the bar for group C (perhaps with color)because it may be hard to see that sliver at the top, but that's all I can think of. Otherwise, I'm curious as to the source you mentioned (Sullivan, 2020?) and would like to know where to read it.
ReplyDeleteAngelys I love how you not only explained the importance of benchmarks, but how we use them and why. I never knew benchmarks were significant in fields like social work! Furthermore, I like how you explained the data in the second benchmark graph shown in your blog. It helps me understand not only the purpose of it, but how it is used in this context. This makes me wonder: what other ways are benchmark lines used in social work? Is there a specific field they are more common in like mental health counseling, disability, school social work, etc.? I suggest that you give examples of the different types of social work and how benchmark lines are beneficial to them.
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