Evidence-Based Practice in Social Work Test Preparation
Course Introduction
Evidence-Based Practice in Social Work introduces students to the principles and methods of integrating the best available research evidence with professional expertise and client values in social work decision-making. The course emphasizes the process of formulating relevant social work questions, critically appraising research studies for validity and applicability, and implementing research findings in practice settings. Students will explore barriers and facilitators to evidence-based practice, ethical considerations, and strategies for fostering a culture of continuous inquiry within organizations. By the end of the course, students will be equipped to utilize evidence-based interventions, assess outcomes, and effectively advocate for informed practice within diverse social work contexts.
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Essential Research Methods for Social Work 4th Edition by Allen Rubin
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Chapter 1: Why Study Research?
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Q1) A social worker invents a new therapy that brings her fame,fortune,and a large following of professional disciples.Two studies evaluate her new therapy.One is scientifically weak in its design,and concludes that her therapy is extremely effective.The other is scientifically very strong in its design,but concludes that her therapy is not effective at all.She writes a letter to the journal publishing both studies.In her letter she severely criticizes the design of the strong study (and therefore also criticizes the credibility of its findings),and she praises the design and findings of the weak study.
A)overgeneralization.
B)ego-involvement in understanding.
C)premature closure of inquiry.
D)made-up information.
E)mystification.
Answer: B
Q2) Refusing to examine research on the services we deliver has no bearing on how professionally ethical we are.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 2: Evidence-Based Practice: The Research Process
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Q1) An evidence-based practice question should
A)incorporate client characteristics.
B)always inquire about only one specific intervention.
C)never be altered in light of the evidence emerging in one's literature search.
D)always specify at least two alternative interventions in advance.
Answer: A
Q2) Suppose that Jane Doe,MSW properly engages in all of the steps of the EBP process,and then decides that the best evidence indicates that the quality of the therapeutic alliance explains all the variation in client outcome and that the intervention chosen explains none of the variation.In other words,she accepts the Dodo Bird verdict,based on the studies that supported that verdict.This would mean that Jane is NOT really being evidence-based in her practice.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) Evidence-based practice implies career-long learning.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Quantitative, Qualitative, and Mixed Methods of Inquiry
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Q1) Which of the following statements best typifies a mixed methods study?
A)A study that ends with a qualitative method but emphasizes a quantitative method.
B)A study that emphasizes a qualitative method and implements it concurrently with a quantitative method.
C)A study that has an equal emphasis on a qualitative and a quantitative method but Does not implement them both concurrently.
D)All of these are equally likely to be called a mixed methods study.
Answer: D
Q2) Qualitative research methods are more likely to tap the deeper meanings of human experiences.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) Quantitative research methods are more likely than qualitative methods to begin with a flexible plan.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: Factors Influencing the Research Process
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Q1) If social workers wanted to find out how satisfied clients are,on the average,with the services they received,they would undertake
A)a descriptive study.
B)a trend study
C)a cohort study.
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D)an exploratory study.
E)an explanatory study.
Q2) Descriptive studies:
A)can employ qualitative, quantitative, and/or mixed methods.
B)always use qualitative methods.
C)always use quantitative methods.
D)none of these
Q3) Discuss how two social work practice models might lead to different research studies about school social work with children who are disruptive in the classroom.
Q4) How are theory and research linked? Give examples.
Q5) Explain how a study could be conducted within the critical social science paradigm using research methods associated with the positivist paradigm.
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Chapter 5: Ethical Issues in Social Work Research
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Q1) Because social scientists rarely plan studies that could physically harm subjects,the issue of no harm to subjects is not a real problem.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Ethical issues are distinguished from political issues in research in that
A)ethics deals more with the substance of research.
B)politics deals more with the methods of research.
C)formal codes of accepted political conduct are not comparable to the codes of ethical conduct.
D)ethics deals more with the use of research.
Q3) 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.
Q4) Are there any situations in which a researcher is justified in deceiving subjects? Explain your answer.
Q5) Illustrate how ethics and politics can affect social work research.
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Chapter 6: Culturally Competent Research
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Q1) Latinos who recently immigrated to the United States are likely to have the same level of acculturation as Latinos whose parents or grandparents have lived in the United States for several decades or longer
A)True
B)False
Q2) Sampling with hidden and oppressed populations:
A)almost always should involve probability sampling methods.
B)should avoid using the researcher's judgment about finding potential participants. C)often must utilize the snowball sampling method.
D)never should combine probability and non-probability sampling methods.
Q3) Using anonymous enrollment procedures can enhance efforts to recruit research participants from stigmatized populations.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Linguistic equivalence ensures conceptual equivalence.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Explain the difference between linguistic,conceptual and metric equivalence.
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Chapter 7: Problem Formulation
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Q1) Construct three hypotheses of interest to social workers.One should predict a positive relationship,another a negative relationship,and a third a curvilinear relationship.Identify the independent and dependent variables in each hypothesis.Discuss your reasoning for predicting the curvilinear relationship.
Q2) Develop a properly worded hypothesis that would be relevant to evaluating the effectiveness of some aspect of social work practice.Identify a moderating variable and a mediating variable pertinent to that hypothesis and explain why it would be important to control for them in testing the hypothesis
Q3) In choosing an existing scale as an operational definition of self-esteem before and after an intervention,researchers should consider
A)its length.
B)how difficult it will be for subjects to complete.
C)its sensitivity to change over time.
D)its reliability and validity.
E)all of these.
Q4) Give an example of how gender could be a variable in one study and a constant in another.
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Chapter 8: Measurement in Quantitative and Qualitative Inquiry
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Q1) Which of the following is NOT a type of reliability?
A)inter-rater.
B)test-retest.
C)internal consistency.
D)known groups.
Q2) Each alternative form of measurement (written self-reports,interviews,direct behavioral observation and examining available records)is vulnerable to measurement error.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Describe how qualitative studies attempt to deal with reliability and validity.
Q4) Professor Lum asked respondents,"How old are you?" Later in the interview Lum asked,"What is your date of birth?" This illustrates that Lum was interested in the ________ of the measurement.
A)face validity.
B)content validity.
C)criterion validity.
D)reliability.
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Q5) Explain why if a scale is found to be reliable,we CANNOT assume that it is also valid.
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Chapter 9: Quantitative and Qualitative Measurement
Instruments
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Q1) 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.
Q2) The following exemplifies an improper way to ask a question: "Are you satisfied with this textbook and with your research instructor's teaching style?
A)True
B)False
Q3) Construct a brief questionnaire about an issue of interest to you that includes at least one contingency question.
Q4) There are no commonalities between quantitative and qualitative approaches to instrument construction.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Construct a brief Likert-type scale to measure attitudes about an issue of interest to you.
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Chapter 10: Surveys
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Q1) Describe three research questions for which survey research is an appropriate technique of observation.Explain whether these three topics are better suited to an interview or a mailed questionnaire and why.
Q2) 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.
Q3) Survey research methods and qualitative research methods are incompatible and should never be combined.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The primary function of the probe is to
A)loosen up the respondent.
B)get the correct answer from the respondent.
C)get the respondent to answer a question more fully.
D)indicate an understanding and interest in the respondent.
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Chapter 11: Sampling: Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches
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Q1) Describe deviant case sampling,and give an example of a study in which it would be useful.
Q2) A sampling interval of 5 was used to select a sample from a population of 1,000.How many elements are to be in the sample?
A)5.
B)50.
C)100.
D)200.
E)1,000.
Q3) Every kth element in a list is chosen for inclusion in the sample in A)simple random sampling.
B)systematic sampling.
C)disproportionate sampling.
D)cluster sampling.
E)stratified sampling.
Q4) Using probability sampling,each member of the population has an equal chance of being selected for the sample.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: Experiments and Quasi-Experiments
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Q1) Suppose a new social casework program is offered to students with high levels of truancy.If those students placed in the program by their families have significantly less truancy after participating than the students who did not participate in the program,then we can conclude that
A)the program effectively reduces truancy.
B)a selection bias might explain away the difference.
C)causality cannot be inferred because of the lack of covariation.
D)some clients benefited, so the program has value.
Q2) Suppose a case management program is established to reduce rehospitalization rates in a hospital and that those rates drop dramatically once the new program is established.We can conclude that
A)research has demonstrated an effective approach to practice.
B)causality cannot be inferred because time order was not established.
C)another event occurring during the time of the study might explain away the change.
D)the absence of covariation threatens the internal validity of any causal inferences.
Q3) Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of cross-sectional studies and the case control design.
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Chapter 13: Single Case Evaluation Designs
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Q1) Discuss why it is best to have as many measurement points as possible in a single-case design.
Q2) Target problems can be quantified in terms of their A)frequency.
B)duration.
C)magnitude.
D)all of these.
Q3) In single-case experiments,direct observation is always better than using self-report scales or available records.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Self-monitoring is an example of unobtrusive observation.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The length of the baseline in single-case designs should be A)as long as is practically and ethically possible.
B)longer with a low frequency behavior than with a high frequency behavior.
C)extended until a stable trend appears.
D)all of these.
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Chapter 14: Program Evaluation
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Q1) The best way to avoid contaminating the control condition is to locate the experimental and control conditions in the same building
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following statements is NOT true about program evaluation?
A)It differs dramatically from most of the research done by social workers.
B)It refers to the purpose of research more than to any particular research methods.
C)It can apply to many diverse research designs and methods.
D)It can be used not only to assess the impact of human service programs but also to improve their implementation.
Q3) What are the special problems that program evaluators encounter that other types of researchers are less likely to encounter?
Q4) Evaluators who report negative findings about a program will usually be respected by stakeholders as competent and honest,provided that their methodology is reasonable.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Describe the impact managed care has had on program evaluation.
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Chapter 15: Additional Methods in Qualitative Inquiry
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Q1) The qualitative researcher in the role of participant-as-observer participates fully with the group under study but does not disclose his or her role as researcher.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Qualitative researchers should NEVER participate as an actor in the events under study.
A)True
B)False
Q3) In comparison to quantitative research methods,what are the major strengths and weaknesses of qualitative research methods?
Q4) 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.
Q5) Field notes should record what you "know happened," NOT what you "think" has happened.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 16: Analyzing Available Records: Quantitative and Qualitative Methods
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Q1) Professor Perlman from question 4 found that textbook A contained the word "he" 80 times,whereas textbook B contained it 20 times.In addition,textbook A used the word "chairman" 16 times,whereas textbook B used it only 4 times.Perlman was correct in concluding that
A)textbook A was four times as sexist as textbook B.
B)textbook B was one-fourth as sexist as textbook A.
C)the words "he" and "chairman" appeared four times more in textbook A than in textbook B.
D)all of these.
Q2) For social scientists,an advantage to utilizing available records for data is
A)the reliability and validity of the data am guaranteed.
B)the reliability and validity of the data can easily be assessed and connected, if necessary.
C)the reports are very accurate.
D)the data can be obtained with limited financial cost.
E)the data is already in ideal types.
Q3) Historical analysis can overlap with content analysis.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of secondary analysis.
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Chapter 17: Quantitative Data Analysis
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Q1) The mean is almost always sufficient in portraying the typical case in a distribution.
A)True
B)False
Q2) A Cohen's d effect size of less than 1.0 is considered to be weak.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Your colleague conducts a methodologically flawless randomized experiment with a small sample and finds that 70 percent of the clients treated with intervention A had a successful outcome,while only 60 percent of the clients in the control group had a successful outcome.Based on the difference in these percentages,she concludes that intervention A is effective.Would you agree with her? Explain your answer.
Q4) The odds ratio shows how much more or less likely a certain dependent variable outcome is for the categories of the independent variable.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Explain the difference between statistical significance,relationship strength,and substantive significance.
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Chapter 18: Qualitative Data Analysis
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Q1) Conversation analysts look only at the structure of communication.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Code notes:
A)Cover reflections about the dimensions of concepts
B)Cover relationships among concepts
C)Identify the code labels and their meanings
D)Discuss the deeper meanings of concepts
Q3) Theory plays an important role in seeking to discover patterns in qualitative analysis.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Open coding involves selecting codes before examining the data.
A)True
B)False
Q5) In qualitative analysis,it is inappropriate to consider possible causal links between variables.
A)True B)False
Q6) Describe how concept mapping is used in qualitative analysis.
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