Chapters 1-4
Chapters 5-7
Chapter 10
Chapters 12-13
Random (not in midterm)
100

Mixed methods approach that collects qualitative and quantitative data simultaneously and then compares the results for a more complete understanding.

Convergent Mixed Methods Design

100

This document outlines the professional values, principles, and standards that guide social workers' conduct and decision-making.

NASW Code of Ethics

100

The person who provides data for analysis by responding to a survey questionnaire.

Respondent

100

The confidence that the result of a study depicts whether one variable causes another.

 Internal validity

100

This paradoxical effect describes when people alter their behavior simply because they are being observed.

Hawthorne Effect

200

5 step process that integrates the best available research with practitioner expertise and client values.

Evidence-based practice

200

This concept is about whether your measure really captures what you’re trying to study—for example, does your “stress scale” actually measure stress.

Measurement Validity

200

This type of study checks in with the same people more than once over time to see how things change.

Panel Study

200

A technique that uses procedures based on probability theory to assign research participants to experimental and control groups.

Randomization

200

Coined by philosopher Karl Popper, this principle states that a good scientific theory must be capable of being proven wrong.

Falsifiability

300

A systematic set of interrelated statements intended to explain some aspect of social life.

Theory

300

This is non-negotiable—only a participant can provide it—and researchers are ethically and legally required to obtain it before involving anyone in a study. To ensure it’s valid, participants must be fully informed about all potential risks and agree voluntarily, without coercion.

Informed Consent

300

Younger generations might gravitate towards this form of data collection for its convenience and ease, but it may not be accessible to everyone because of socioeconomic barriers.

Online Surveys

300

This term refers to the extent to which the results of a study can be generalized beyond the specific context in which the study was conducted.

External Validity

300

Used frequently in survey design, this scale asks respondents to rate agreement on a 5- or 7-point continuum.

Likert Scale

400

The type of study also known as a snapshot or single point in time.

Cross-sectional study

400

This type of variable explains the mechanism through which an independent variable influences a dependent variable.

Mediating variable

400

This method of data collection often involves asking a series of questions to gather opinions, behaviors, or demographic information from a group of people.

Surveys

400

Measuring more than one indicator of the same target problem to increase validity of the findings.

Triangulation

400

A researcher using this qualitative method spends extended time in a setting, observing and sometimes participating in daily life.

Ethnography

500

This group ensures the ethical standards of research proposals involving human participants.

Institutional Review Board

500

A relationship between two variables that are no longer related when a third variable is controlled.

Spurious relationship

500

Typically, the 4 types of surveys. 

Mail, Online, (in-person) Interview, or Telephone

500

A type of pre-intervention single-case evaluation design phase that consists of chronologically ordered data points that are reconstructed from past data.

Retrospective baseline

500

This unethical research practice involves running statistical analyses until something turns out significant—kind of like shaking a Magic 8-Ball until it says what you want.

P-hacking