What is make sure human participants are protected in research studies?
100
A single question used to measure a concept (e.g., what is your GPA?)
What is an indicator?
100
In a cause-and-effect relationship, the variable that is presume to be the cause.
What is an independent variable?
100
The hallmark of good research.
What is rigor?
100
When the relationship between the independent and dependent variables moves in opposite directions.
What is a negative relationship?
200
Incorporates practitioner expertise, best evidence as gathered through systematic review, and client values and expectations.
What is evidence based practice (EBP)?
200
Measurement instruments that have answer options ranging from, for example, 1 = strongly disagree to 5 = strongly agree.
What is a Likert scale?
200
A type of extraneous variable that could strongly influence your study.
What is a confounding variable?
200
The act of acquiring knowledge by reading what others have done in a specific are of study.
What is a literature review?
200
When the nature of the relationship between variables changes at certain levels of those variables.
What is a curvilinear relationship?
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
The four levels of measurement.
What is nominal, ordinal, interval, and ratio?
300
In a cause-and-effect study, the variable that is presumed to be the effect.
What is dependent variable?
300
Can be empirical, replicable, and objective OR based on personal observation, anecdotal reports, and feelings.
What is evidence?
300
The types of relationships explained by hypotheses.
What is causation, correlation, association, or no relationship?
400
Beneficence, respect, and justice.
What is the foundation on which Institutional Review Boards are built that was informed by the three key principles from the Belmont Report?
400
Types of questions in which a person could respond in writing or in an interview.
What are open-ended questions?
400
A variable kept the same in each trial.
What is a control variable?
400
The four purposes of research.
What is explanatory, descriptive, exploratory, and experimental?
400
The variable "test scores" in this hypothesis: Students who study together will score higher on research methods tests than students who study alone.
What is a dependent variable?
500
The main ethical violation in the Tuskegee study.
What is informed consent?
500
How well an instrument measures what it is intended to measure.
What is validity?
500
The type of variable that includes "race" and "gender."
What is a nominal variable?
500
The seven phases of the research process.
What is problem formulation, designing the study, data collection, data processing, data analysis, interpreting the findings, and writing the research report?
500
The direction of this hypothesis: The more knowledge social workers have about AIDS, the more comfortable they are in helping people with AIDS.