In which of the following analyses is content analysis least likely to be useful?
a. themes in newspaper editorials.
b. the wording of this exam.
c. topics covered in class lectures.
d. the theme of love as discussed in song.
e. dating patterns among high school seniors.
Which of the following statements is true about participatory action research?
a. It is distinguished by its social action aims.
b. The researcher serves as a resource to those being studied.
c. It often involves poor people.
d. All of these.
Which of the following is (are) an advantage of the community forum approach to
needs assessment?
a. feasibility.
b. representativeness of sample.
c. It is unlikely to be influenced by those with vested interests.
d. Everyone is equally likely to express his or her views.
Which of the following statements is (are) true regarding entering your first job as a
professional social worker?
a. You should disregard agency traditions.
b. You should disregard advice based on authority, even if the authority figure has a
high level of training, credentials and experience.
c. You should keep in mind that knowledge based on tradition and authority could be
wrong, and seek evidence that might support or challenge that knowledge.
d. All of these.
e. None of these.
Which of the following statements is true about measurement equivalence?
a. Linguistic equivalence ensures conceptual equivalence.
b. Linguistic equivalence is necessary for conceptual equivalence.
c. Conceptual equivalence ensures metric equivalence.
d. Metric equivalence is necessary for conceptual equivalence.
Which of the following statements is correct about evidence-based practice?
a. It is a process.
b. It is a list of interventions that will be effective with every client.
c. It refers to decisions about intervention effectiveness, only.
d. Idiosyncratic client attributes should be ignored when selecting the best intervention
Professor Smith was interested in reporting the reality of the experiences of teenage
runaways living on the streets in their own terms. Smith is probably most interested in:
a. being a complete participant
b. quantitative research.
c. ethnography.
d. hermeneutics.
e. none of the above.
Which of the following statements is (are) TRUE about selecting a research question?
a. The selection should be based exclusively on the researcher’s personal curiosity.
b. The question should have relevance for guiding social welfare policy or social work
practice.
c. Reading the research literature on the topic should be put off until after the research
question is finalized.
d. All of these.
e. None of these.
The ethical research issue(s) raised by the Trouble in the Tearoom study was/were:
a. invasion of privacy.
b. deception.
c. confidentiality.
d. invasion of privacy and deception.
Given the following age distribution, the mean is
18, 33, 7, 32, 6, 5, 4
a. 4
b. 7
c. 15
d. 32
e. cannot compute from the information given.
Which of the following is a social constructivist standard for appraising the
trustworthiness of qualitative research?
a. Member checking
b. Evoke action for the distribution of power
c. Prolonged engagement
d. Negative case analysis
Which of the following statements is true regarding conducting a study that builds on
prior research?
a. It is okay if the study departs radically from the prior research.
b. It should never duplicate a previous study.
c. It should NOT depart radically from the prior research.
d. It should never duplicate a previous study and should NOT depart radically from the
prior research.
A study of how the same clients discharged from a mental hospital in 2000 were
functioning in 2001, 2002, 2003, and so on through 2007 would be
a. an inductive study
b. a qualitative study
c. a longitudinal study
d. a cross-sectional study
Which of the following is an example of unobtrusive observation?
a. Self-monitoring.
b. Self-report scales.
c. Interviews.
d. None of these.
When conducting an online survey, you should:
a. Avoid using a brief e-mail invitational message.
b. Present the password and link to the survey website early in the e-mail message.
c. Avoid setting a deadline for participation.
d. Use a website that prevents respondents from reentering the survey if they take a
break.
Safeguards against selective observation in science include
a. use of a research design.
b. colleagues.
c. committing oneself ahead of time to make a specified number of observations.
d. all of these.
e. none of these.
Which of the following statements is true regarding qualitative researchers seeking to
construct theory in an inductive fashion?
a. The literature review should always come very early in the research process.
b. The literature review might come early or late in the research process.
c. The literature review should always come fairly late in the research process.
d. There is universal agreement about when the literature review should be conducted.
When the variable “religious affiliation” is classified as Protestant, Catholic, or Jewish,
this variable has the important quality of being
a. mutually exclusive.
b. exhaustive.
c. interchangeable.
d. ratio scale.
Professor Wang is interested in looking at the grandparent ” grandchild relationship.
Wang wonders whether grandparents assume different roles when providing care to
grandchildren. That is, are some grandparents very distant from the grandchildren while
others become surrogate parents? According to the Lofland’s scheme, Wang is focusing
on:
a. Frequencies
b. Causes
c. Processes
d. Structures
e. Magnitudes
Quantitative studies should never use availability sampling because it is too risky to
ever yield useful results.
Scales include multiple items that can be summed to measure a variable.
Manifest content refers to the meanings contained within communications.
Concepts that make up a variable are called attributes of that variable.
The same concept can be a variable in one study and a constant in another study.
An informant is one of your colleagues who attempts to gain
membership into thegroup being studied.
A good research question should be narrow and specific, feasible to study, posed in a
way that can be answered by observable evidence, and have significant potential
relevance for guiding social welfare policy or social work practice.
In a single-case design with a student at high risk for dropping out of school, a good
measurement plan to assess whether our intervention is effective would be to monitor
whether or not he/she drops out of school.
Field notes should record what you “know happened,” NOT what you “think” has
happened.
As a mode of observation, content analysis is essentially an operation of coding.
Qualitative research methods are compatible with quantitative research methods.
Evaluators who report negative findings about a program will usually be respected by
stakeholders as competent and honest, provided that their methodology is reasonable.
There are no commonalities between quantitative and qualitative approaches to
instrument construction.
Whenever two variables are correlated, we may assume that one is the cause of the
other.
The norm of voluntary participation threatens the social research goal of
generalizability.