Intro to Research
What are the 3 components in EBP?
Client's context/circumstances
Practitioner's expertise
Best available Research
You include information on your consent form about the potential benefits your participants may experience while participating in your study. Which of Belmont Report's ethical principles does this describe?
A) Beneficence
B) Respect for persons
C) Justice
D) Internal validity
A) Beneficence: avoiding harm and research gains outweighs the risks or costs
Conceptualization is the exact measuring method used that allows other researchers to follow and replicate the same methodology.
True or False
False. Operationalization.
(Conceptualization: process of specifying what key concepts will mean in your research.)
You can NEVER collect data from an entire population.
True or False
False. The question is, how are you conceptualizing your population of interest?
Which one is NOT a criteria when inferring causality or making cause and effect statements?
A) Association between IV and DV
B) Time order
C) Rule out threats to internal validity
D) external validity
D) external validity
Major research outlets include:
A) Academic journals
B) Attending conferences and seminars
C) Organization reports
D) A & B
E) all of the above
E
For your dissertation work, you decide to analyze data from the Hawaii Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) dataset, a publicly available dataset that collects statewide data on health-related risk behaviors, chronic health conditions, and use of preventive services. Your dissertation will undergo which IRB review?
A) Full-committee
B) Exempt
C) Expedite
D) Partial-committee
B) exempt
When conducting your own research study, you ALWAYS have to develop your own measurement or scale?
True or False
False.
Not necessarily. Various scales exists that have been tested that may be already available for you to use in your study.
What does a representative sample mean?
Sample "looks like" the population from which participants were selected.
Sophia's 440 students had paper deadlines for their practice class due by 3:30pm on Wednesday. Immediately after at 3:45pm, they have their SW 440 research class with Sophia. Sophia takes attendance and notices more students absent than usual. Which threat to internal validity impacted students' attendance in Sophia's class?
A) Maturation
B) History
C) Compensatory rivalry
D) Compensatory equalization
B) History
You develop a new intervention utilizing constructs from the Social Learning Theory with aims to increase colon cancer screening. You hypothesize that your new intervention will increase the screening rate of your participants, and proceed with data collection. You are conducting an inductive research.
True or False
False
True or False
False
Triangulation is when you use 2 different measures of the same variable (i.e., If Sophia asked you how many times you fell asleep in her class last month.)
Why use triangulation?
If 1 way of measuring is viewed as more likely to yield biased results, use another measure that is more accurate and less biased.
You are interested in surveying physicians employed in hospitals on Maui. You first identify hospitals and randomly select 3 of those hospitals. From the 3, you randomly select physicians employed in those hospitals for your recruitment efforts. Which sampling strategy did you use?
A) Simple
B) Systematic
C) Stratified
D) Cluster
D) Cluster
Which study design has the least issues with potential testing effects?
A) Classic pretest-posttest control group design
B) Posttest only control group
C) Solomon 4 group
D) None of the above
B) posttest only control group
You are interested in learning 1st year BSW students' satisfaction level in the program. You measure their level of satisfaction halfway through the semester and again at the end of the semester. Which type of longitudinal study design is this?
A) Cohort
B) Trend
C) Panel
D) A & B
E) A & C
E
If including human participants in your research study, consent forms should be developed to uphold which of Belmont Report's ethical principles?
A) Beneficence
B) Respect for persons
C) Justice
D) None of the above
B) Respect for persons
What level of measurement is the following?
What kind of pet do you have?
A) parakeet
B) rabbit
C) dog
D) snake
Nominal
An advantage of stratified random sampling is that it is most time and cost efficient.
True or False
False.
True experiment designs lack random assignment and manipulation of IV.
True or False
False.
If your research proposal question is the following, "What are the experiences of homeless youths on Oahu?" Which research approach is best to answer this question?
A) descriptive approach
B) evaluation approach
C) exploratory approach
D) explanatory approach
C) exploratory approach
You are conducting an in-person interview with your participants with aims to explore their attitudes on increasing accessibility to condoms on campus. You disclose to each participants that only you as the researcher will have access to the information they share and that the data will be kept in a secure environment. The data is anonymous.
True or False
False. Data is confidential.
Sophia and Mike both take note of the students who fall asleep in Sophia's 440 class. At the end of the class, they cross-check their results with each other. Which reliability was tested?
A) Test-retest reliability
B) Internal consistency reliability
C) Inter-rater reliability
D) Content reliability
C) inter-rater reliability
You are interested in interviewing MBTSSW faculty who have at least 10 years of professional experience in academia because of the likelihood that increased number of years have enriched their teaching experience. You aim to explore the perceived challenges and benefits of working as an instructor. You select instructors who have 10+ years of experience teaching for your study. Which sampling was used:
A) Snowball
B) Quota
C) Purposive
D) Stratified random sampling
C) Purposive
True experiment designs provide the LEAST evidence for causality AND due to the simplicity of their designs, are most useful when evaluating agency programs.
True or False
False.
Non-experimental designs.