Exam 3: Selecting a Statistic to Answer Your Research Question

A statement such as, "We will be inclusive and respectful of client needs in the delivery of human services" is an example of:

In articulating the outcome objective of the evaluation process it is useful to distinguish between:

It is not important to articulate an outcome objective when conducting evaluative research.

One of the ways in which the dependent variable of evaluative research studies can be characterized is:

Your county Social Services Agency is evaluating its mental health program to examine the improvement in the life satisfaction of a group of clients participating in a 10-week Animal Assisted Group Therapy program. The data for this study require:

In evaluative studies that measure the impact of a service on a group of individuals, it is important to collect data on:

A good way to describe a null hypothesis is that:

A t Test that is helpful in comparing a set of scores on a variable measured at the interval level, to a single score that serves as a threshold of functioning is:

Provide an example to illustrate the difference between an evaluative study and the explanatory study.

Nominal level of measurement involves placing subjects into categories that have order.

Whenever feasible, the process of evaluation of the human services involves the use of two groups. The assignment and the use of the two groups generally include:

When you use inferential statistics, you are describing a social phenomenon.

Any of the statistics that can be used for the nominal level can be used for the ordinal level of measurement when relevant, in addition to: