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Ethics
Sampling
Variables
The research process
Miscellaneous
100
The primary function of an IRB
What is make sure human participants are protected in research studies?
100
This type of sampling is the random selection of a sample from a sampling frame.
What is Simple random sampling?
100
In a cause-and-effect relationship, the variable that is presume to be the cause
What is an independent variable?
100
The type of research that employs probing questions
What is qualitative research?
100

A question that provides a respondent with a scaled option such as "never, often, always" is an example of this level of data.

What is ordinal level data?

200
When only the researcher knows the participants' identities
What is confidentiality?
200
To be sure that your sample is representative of certain variables you are studying.
Why would you use stratified sampling?
200
A variable that describes a participant's age, race, gender, social class, employment status, among other factors
What is a demographic variable?
200
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?
200

Questions that ask yes/no or ethnicity categories are examples of this type of data.

What is nominal level data?

300
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?
300
A sample used mainly because it is available to you.
What is convenience sampling?
300

In a cause-and-effect study, the variable that is presumed to be the effect

What is dependent variable?

300
The type of research that employs the careful measurement of variables
What is quantitative research?
300

These are two major categories of program evaluation.

What are formative and summative evalutions?

400
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?
400
We can use this to calculate the probability that any case within a sampling frame will be selected as part of the research sample.
What is probability sampling?
400

Defining a variable to increase the ability accurately measure it is know as this process.

What is operationalizing a variable?

400

The first step in the research process, after problem identification and specification.

What is a review of literature?

400
The variable "program completed" in this hypothesis: Clients who complete job training Program A will have greater success in finding employment than clients who complete Program B. (hint: it's either the independent or dependent variable.)
What is an independent variable?
500
The main ethical violation in the Tuskegee study.
What is informed consent?
500
Cases are selected because they are believed to give the researcher the information of interest.
What is purposive sampling?
500
The type of variable that includes "race" and "gender."
What is a nominal variable?
500
The definition of a social work research problem
What is a gap in knowledge that causes social work practice to be less effective than it could be?
500

This type of summative program evaluation measures if clients achieved desired program goals.

What is an outcomes evaluation?