Exam 1: Why Study Research?

A family preservation program director helps design a study that evaluates the effectiveness of her program to keep children living with their abusive parents by providing the families with daily home visits by social workers.She expects the evaluation to show a dramatic reduction in reported child abuse incidents.Instead,the results show an increase in reported child abuse incidents.The director then concludes that the program was undoubtedly effective,reasoning that there really could not possibly have been an increase in actual abuse due to her program,just an increase in reportage of abuse due to closer monitoring in the daily home visits.The director is committing the error of

Which of the following statements is true about research utilization and social work practice:

Science offers total protection against the errors that nonscientists commit in casual,day-to-day inquiry.

Legitimate ex post facto hypothesizing requires additional research.

Explain what is meant by ego involvement in understanding.

Almost all research studies on social work practice effectiveness have agreed that it is very effective.

Tradition and authority can be useful sources of knowledge,but relying on them exclusively can be risky.

Our ego involvement can influence us to disregard evidence that contradicts our beliefs.

Explain why it is important for social work practitioners to utilize research on social work practice.

Describe how scientific inquiry differs from nonscientific inquiry.

When most well educated people agree that something makes common sense,we can safely assume that to be true without applying the scientific method.

Which of the following statements is/are true about the need to critique research quality?

Our attempts to learn about the world we live in come from

Which of the following statements is true about research findings on the effectiveness of social work services?

When social work practitioners utilize research discriminatingly,they help uphold and advance the values and mission of their profession.

If a research study gets published practitioners can be guided by just reading its conclusions; there is no need to read the technical aspects of the study's research methods.

Assume that Professor Rodgers had studied only people aged 65 or older and found that they experienced increasing levels of happiness in the last 20 years.Suppose he had concluded that people under 65 years of age also experienced increasing levels of happiness during the same time period.He would have committed

Which of the following statements is (are)true about the scientific method?

Safeguards against selective observation in science include

According to the scientific method,scientific evidence that has been strongly supported in numerous replications is not open to question.