Evidence-Based Practice
Our textbook defines this as "systematic and objective inquiry that utilizes the scientific method to solve problems and create new knowledge"
What is: Social Work Research
The first step in the process for ensuring ______________ is often to assign a code number to each participant.
What is confidentiality?
Quanitative studies are usually _______ in nature and aim to draw large and representative samples of people so that the findings can be _______________ to larger populations
What is deductive and generalized?
In this category of sampling, all people have the same known chance of being selected for the sample.
What is probability?
The phase that stablishes baseline measurements of the target problem before the intervention phase is implemented
What is Phase A
This phase of research defines the problem.
What is Phase 1
When it comes to research, the number one rule regarding participants is ___________ first.
What is safety?
This term refers to the possibility that someone else can reproduce your study.
What is duplication?
This type of probability sampling uses a random numbers table or random numbers generator to help select participants.
What is systematic random sampling?
This phase can not be used to answer explanatory questions that come quite high on the knowledge continuum
What is Phase B
It is important to be aware of these when doing research so that your study is not affected by them.
What are biases
This must never be obtained through bribery, threats, deception, or any form of coercion.
What is informed consent?
If a measuring instrument will give the same score over and over under the same conditions, it is _____________.
What is reliable?
Ideally, a sample size is this fraction of the population.
What is one-tenth?
Explanatory studies explain this
What is causality?
The three roles of research include research consumer, research creator and disseminator, and research __________.
What is Partner
Something we believe to be true without any proof or conclusive evidence.
What is an assumption?
This way of thinking believes that things must exist in order to be measured
What is positivistic?
This type of nonprobability sampling occurs when one member helps locate other members for the sample group.
What is snowball sampling?
What is the quantitative research approach?
This research attitude term includes an acronym that stands for Challenge, Adapt, File, and Evaluate.
What is Internet CAFE
Guides social workers in acting ethically in research, as well as all areas of social work practice
What is the Code of Ethics?
The two types of measurement errors are random and ___________.
What is constant?
A procedure that relies on the closest and most available research participants to constitute a sample
What is availability sampling?
Aims to collect data from a population or a sample of research participant, in order to describe them as a group
What is a survey