Research Methods (Social Work) Quiz # 2

_____ is what the researcher wants to study.

A research question

A research problem

Generalized research

Personal research

A ______ is used to address a research problem.

Research question

Research problem

Personal research

Research mission

Which of the following statements is TRUE about good research questions?

They are strong and without argument.

They are positive and measurable.

They are researchable and feasible.

They are limited and controlled.

A researchable question is one for which ______ evidence can be gathered to answer the proposed research question.

Subjective

Financial

Negative

Observable

Every researcher starts their study by conducting a ______.

Research study

Literature review

Focus group

Meeting

Social workers are often motivated to conduct a literature review by a need to find solutions to ______ problems.

Generalized

Personal

Practice

Outdated

What will give you a good overview of the current knowledge on the topic?

A self-assessment

A literature review

A focus group

Guidelines from foundations

What is the most common way of searching for literature on one’s topic?

Focus groups

Social media

Personal experience

Electronic databases

A systematic review is a generalized methodology that locates existing studies, selects and evaluates contributions, analyses, and synthesizes data.

True

False

When conducting a literature review, selecting keywords can significantly affect how effective your search is.

True

False

______ is the process of defining the exact way you plan to measure the concept.

Clericalization

Operationalization

Knowledge formation

Verification

A ______ is any factor, trait, quality, or condition that can be measured.

Topic

Study

Tool

Variable

Variables at the ______ level of measurement are those defined by their attributes or characteristics.

Nominal

Ordinal

Interval

Ratio

Nominal variable attributes or characteristics are broken into two categories: ______ and mutually exclusive.

Extensive

Exhaustive

Independent

Variable

The process of assigning a variable measured at the nominal level a numeric value is known as ______.

Assessing

Benchmarking

Coding

Determining

Which of the following statements best describes an acquiescent response set?

When the participants respond in a way that conveys a favorable impression of themselves

A tendency of a person to respond in a positive manner to a question regardless of the question being asked

When one group of study participants is more likely to recall information request than other groups of participants

When persons improve or change their behavior because they know they are being studied.

______ error occurs when there is a pattern to the error.

Recall

Systematic

Repeated

Measurement

Variables at the ______ level of measurement have all the characteristics of variables measured at the interval level, in addition to a true zero value.

Nominal

Ordinal

Interval

Ratio

Measurement is the process of creating the concepts researchers are interested in measuring.

True

False

The conceptual definition is the working definition a researcher uses for a concept.

True

False

The variable being explained or caused is the ______ variable.

Independent

Dependent

Determinant

Indeterminant

______ is the relationship between cause and effect.

Causality

Causation

Causticity

Conceptuality

______ variables are ones in which the researcher did not include in the study that have an effect on the relationship between the independent and dependent variable.

Extraneous

Extemporaneous

Effect

Experimental

When a researcher collects data prior to the intervention, what are they conducting?

Primary test

Posttest

Pretest

Personal test

In a pre-experimental design, which variable is the researcher manipulating?

Introductory

Dependent

Determining

Independent

If a sample size is greater than 30, which of the following tests is preferable?

L-test

Q-test

T-test

Z-test

Which of the following is a score used to indicate if someone’s score puts them in a certain category?

Cutoff score

Final score

Finalized score

Cutback score

______ validity refers to a researcher’s ability to conclude that the change in the dependent variable is definitely attributed to the manipulation of the independent variable.

External

Internal

Preplanned

Established

The independent variable explains or causes the change in the dependent variable.

True

False

A one-shot case study is a research design where there is only one group, one intervention, and both a pretest and a posttest.

True

False