Program Evalution
What is: IRBs
A social work research study can have one or more of these research purposes
What is: exploration, description, explanation, evaluation and construction of measurement instruments. What is an Outcome Evaluation
Employing local community members as research staff can help with
What is: recruitment of diverse and oppressed populations
These studies are based on observations that represent a single point in time.
What is: Cross-sectional
Insuring that participants are fully informed about the features of the study that might affect their decision to participate in part of this ethical consideration.
What is: Informed Consent
These kinds of entities often requests/requires outcome evaluations?
What is: A regulatory or grant-funding system outside the agency (e.g., a grantor)
These strategies protect the identity of participants when research is being done is small communities.
What is: Research report does not identify specific communities and findings should be in the form of generalizations.
These studies conduct observations at different points in time.
What is: Longitudinal studies
It is important to insure that design does not include embarrassment or any other subtle psychological injury related to this ethical considerations.
What is: No Harm to Participants
Starting from scratch to find and appraise all the relevant studies yourself is part of this process strategy
What is: top down
This method is aimed at attaining translation validity that begins with a bilingual person translating an instrument to a target language followed by another bilingual person translating it from the target language back to the original language.
What is: Back-Translation
The mechanism by which an independent variable affects the dependent variable.
What is: Mediating (or intervening variable)
When researchers take necessary steps to insure that research data is not connected to identity of participants this is supporting this ethical requirement.
What is: Anonymity and Confidentiality
These 5 flaws mark unscientific sources.
What is: Inaccurate observation, over generalization, selective observation, post facto hypothesizing and ego involvement in understanding.
An attribute of a measurement procedure developed in one culture when it has the same value and meaning when administered to people in another culture.
What is: measurement equivalence.
A variable that influences the strength or direction of a relationship between independent and dependent variables.
What is: Moderating Variable