Research Methods (Social Work) Quiz # 3

_____ refers to the selection of persons to include in the comparison group who are similar in demographics to those who are in the experimental group.

Categorizing

Matching

Organizing

Appropriating

Quasi-experimental designs that evaluate the ______ of a particular intervention can be used to inform social work practice.

Virtues

Merits

Effectiveness

Financial benefits

Results from quasi-experimental design studies can lay the groundwork for developing a/an ______.

New law

Drug protocol

Corporation standard

Experimental study

Quasi-experimental design cannot be used to establish ______.

Neutrality

Causality

Commonality

Facts

Changes in the target behaviors are due to the client recording his or her behavior is known as ______.

History

Selection bias

Reactivity

Instrumentation

When an individual in the intervention group shares information about the intervention with an individual in the comparison group, this is known as ______.

Contamination effect

Separation bias

Positive impact

Unrelated consequences

When participants in a comparison group become aware of the intervention and feel they are being denied the benefits of such intervention, and therefore do less well on the dependent variable than they would have outside of the experiment, this is called ______.

Attrition

Inherent bias

Resentful demoralization

Participatory anger

Quasi-experimental designs are used when it is not ethical to assign participants to an experimental or control group.

True

False

A quasi-experimental design is one where the researcher manipulates the independent variable without the random assignment of participants to an experimental group.

True

False

In this design, the group not receiving the intervention is referred to as the “control group.”

True

False

The focus of qualitative research is to discover the meaning ______ give to their interactions with others.

Researchers

Individuals

Fundraisers

Research study supervisors

In qualitative research, the ______ is the instrument for data collection and analysis.

Subject

Fundraiser

Researcher

Hypothesis

Qualitative researchers must be mindful of their personal ______.

Fundraisers

Goals

Biases

Research plans

Reflecting on a researcher’s assumptions and values is known as researcher’s ______.

Reflexivity

Reflection

Revision

Reunification

______ is the researcher’s understanding of the phenomenon.

Interpretivism

Opinion

Revisioning

Subjectivity

What is a researcher called when they study a group they belong to?

Insider-researcher

Outsider-researcher

Generalized-researcher

Specialized-researcher

______ is also referred to as empathic neutrality.

Reactionary

Customary

Objectivity

Subjectivity

Which sampling strategy involves selecting persons from the target population based on a certain attributes that the researcher has established?

Criterion sampling

Theoretical sampling

Opportunistic sampling

Extreme case sampling

As an observer, the researcher has no or minimal interactions with the participant.

True

False

Full participant refers to being both a member of the setting in which the research is being conducted and not being the person conducting research.

True

False

Which of the following statements is TRUE about a sequential transformative mixed-method study?

Qualitative methods are integrated before quantitative.

Either the quantitative or qualitative data are collected and analyzed first.

Collection of quantitative data and analysis of such data are followed by collection of qualitative data and analysis of such data.

Collection of qualitative data and analysis of such data are followed by collection of quantitative data and analysis of such data.

What is the primary difference between identical and parallel sampling?

Only identical sampling is used for experimental designs

The questions researchers ask participants

The individuals that are used in the sample

The mix-method strategy that is used

A ______ design is when both qualitative and quantitative methods are used simultaneously.

Concurrent triangulation

Sequential transformative

Sequential exploratory

Sequential explanatory

______ is a type of mixed-method design where a researcher first collects and analyzes quantitative data and then collects and analyzes qualitative data.

Concurrent triangulation

Sequential transformative

Sequential exploratory

Sequential explanatory

What type of design is it if the researcher introduces the qualitative or quantitative method first depending upon the research purpose?

Concurrent

Sequential

Exploratory

Explanatory

______ is a type of mixed-method design where a researcher first collects and analyzes qualitative data and then collects and analyzes quantitative data.

Concurrent triangulation

Sequential transformative

Sequential exploratory

Sequential explanatory

In mixed-methods research, issues related to internal validity or trustworthiness are referred to as ______ quality.

Interpretational

Sampling

Reflexivity

Inference

______ sampling produces a sample where different individuals are included in both the qualitative and quantitative samples, but these individuals have been chosen from the same population.

Parallel

Initial

Difference

Similarity

Mixed-methods research seeks to answer research questions in a single study at a time.

True

False

Multilevel sampling involves selecting a subset of individuals who participated in the quantitative data collection, and including them in the qualitative sample.

True

False