Ethics
Meta Analyses and Systematic Reviews are viewed as the highest quality research evidence for this reason.
What is they contain data/findings from many (sometimes thousands) studies?
This assessment contains a systematic process for determining and addressing gaps between current and desired conditions.
What is a needs assessment?
An uncontrolled external factor that the researcher is not studying, which might interfere with the results.
What is an extraneous or intervening variable?
Name one way to enhance the validity of qualitative research
What is prolonged engagement, rich descriptions, triangulation, member checking, discrepant information, clarifying research bias, peer debriefing, or external auditor?
The number with the highest frequency in a set of data.
What is the mode?
This type of community/agency assessment attempts to determine whether a program has achieved its intended goals
What is an outcome assessment?
This category of statistics analyzes data to answer research questions or test models or hypotheses.
What are inferential statistics?
A variable that describes a participant's age, race, gender, social class, employment status, among other factors
What is a nominal, demographic or descriptive variable?
A research design that includes hypotheses that are totally new, a carefully matched comparison group, and random assignment to each group.
What is classic experimental design?
A hypothesis that two variables are not related
What is a null hypothesis?
Ethical issues that include ensuring that the participant understands the risks involved, are informed of time needed, and ensured that services will not be affected by participation.
What is voluntary, informed consent?
This type of research aims to determine whether an intervention has the intended impact on a client, or on many clients who form a group.
The variable of "depressive symptoms" in the scenario below: A study was performed to investigate the impact of regular physical exercise on reported depressive symptoms.
What is dependent variable?
The type of research that utilizes research instruments to gather numerical data for careful analysis
What is quantitative research?
When a set of data has significant variation in the scores (with several outliers) this measure of central tendency provides the most helpful information about scores of the sample.
What is the median?
Circumstances under which deception may be used in research
What are situations in which deception is deemed relatively harmless, and there is no alternative non-deception method that can be used?
This addresses how generalizable the findings of a study are to the general population.
What is external validity?
EBP is a process in which the practitioner combines well-researched interventions with clinical experience, ethics, client preferences, and culture to guide and inform the delivery of treatments and services
Formulate an empirically answerable question
Locate the best available evidence
Assess the best available evidence
Integrate the best available evidence with your professional judgement, the persons involved (including but not limited to the client), and the social context (formal or informal).
Review the process and outcomes
These are usually the first steps to begin a research project.
What is specifying the research topic and reviewing literature on that topic?
The variable "job training" in this hypothesis: Clients who complete job training Program A will have greater success in finding employment than clients who complete job training Program B.
What is an independent variable?
This type of research would be used to understand, describe, and discover participant experiences.
What is qualitative research?
Evidence-based social work practice combines research knowledge/findings with these other two main categories.
What are clinical experience and client preferences/circumstances?
An outcomes assessment is this type of evaluation.
What is a summative evaluation?
The relationship between reliability and validity in research
What is findings can be reliable and not valid, while valid findings are usually also reliable?
The direction of this hypothesis: The more knowledge social workers have about AIDS, the more comfortable they are in helping people with AIDS.
What is a positive direction?