Making It Our Own Ball Game: Learning and Assessment in Social Work Education

This paper discusses service-user involvement in social work education. Drawing on practical examples, it engages with both the processes of developing service-user defined assessment tools and the outcomes of applying such tools in practice. The paper uses practical experiences of the involvement of Advocacy In Action with the social work course at the University of Nottingham to illustrate the approach that has been developed, and draws on the testimonies of both academic and student partners in the learning process to support the validity of the assessment processes that have been ?devised.