Social Work as a Profession
FINAL JEOPARDY
These are the four broad categories of research.
What is:
1)Exploratory.
2)Descriptive.
3)Explanatory.
4)Evaluative.
This person famously argued that social work was not a profession in 1915.
Who is Abraham Flexner?
These are 5 ways in which we acquire knowledge.
What is:
Authority
Tradition
Experience
Intuition
The Scientific Method
A qualitative research method is used when researchers want to understand participants’ perceptions, experiences, and/or impressions.
True or False?
What is True?
These are the 3 basic ethical principles in the Belmont Report.
What are respect for persons, beneficence, and justice?
The 4 types of need in needs assessment.
What are perceived, expressed, normative, and relative needs?
This organization represents social work education in the U.S. and sets national accreditation standards for baccalaureate and master’s degree programs in social work.
What is the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE)?
This way of knowing is associated with instinctive knowledge or conviction without rational reason or thought.
What is intuition?
These type of questions are mainly based on personal opinion and cannot be answered by research.
What are value-laden questions?
Minors or individuals who may not be able to reasonably provide informed consent must provide this to indicate they they voluntarily agree to participate in a research study.
What is assent?
The two major categories of program evaluation.
What is formative evaluation & summative evaluation?
This is the first step in the scientific method process.
What is identifying a problem or issue?
A research study that focuses on the experiences of individuals receiving welfare benefits is using this paradigm/tradition:
1) Interpretivist
2) Positivist
What is interpretivist?
This type of research focuses on practice applications and solutions to social issues or problems.
What is applied research?
This principle refers to the process when a researcher can connect names of research participants to data collected but promises to not to reveal identifying information.
What is confidentiality?
This type of program evaluation assesses clarity of program’s mission, goal, objectives, and data measures.
What is evaluability assessment?