Exam 8: Conducting Research That Evaluates Services

Suppose you are evaluating the effectiveness of your strengths-based school social work tutoring services in the improvement of the likelihood that your at-risk middle school students will graduate from high school. You will provide your services in hourly sessions that are given three times per week for 8 weeks. These tutoring sessions will be offered by school social workers with the BSW degree. The students' grades in school will be measured as the outcome of the service. What of the following would be the best way to characterize the structure of this service?

A major advantage of composing a measurement scale yourself, rather than using a published one, is that it will ______.

Which of the following best describes evidence in evaluative research?

The study hypothesis is an educated guess about the results you expect to find from your data, with reference to the variables being measured.

Which of the following is the basis for declaring that you can logically generalize your findings to your study population?

Which of the following would be an example of a client target behavior for an evaluation study?

Suppose you are evaluating the effectiveness of your strengths-based school social work tutoring services in the improvement of the likelihood that your at-risk middle school students will graduate from high school. You will provide your services in hourly sessions that are given three times per week for 8 weeks. These tutoring sessions will be offered by school social workers with the BSW degree. The students' grades in school will be measured as the outcome of the service. What of the following would be the best way to characterize the objective of this service?

When seeking evidence about a given target behavior, it is advisable for the social work researcher to start the search with attempts to find a ______ in regard to the selected target behavior.

When you search for a published tool for measuring client outcome, you should pay careful attention to the ______.

Which of the following questions addresses the issue of service efficiency?

Face validity is the extent that key informants express the belief that the measurement tool is accurate in measuring the designated variable.

What is meant by the concept of threats to internal validity?

The objective of the intervention is the statement of the long-term benefits of the intervention for the client, so you might call it a measured amount of progress toward the achievement of the objective.

When evaluating a human service system or general program of service, you might ask the following questions: (1) Are the services of the program addressing client need? (2) Are we delivering good quality services? (3) Are we offering out services efficiently? (4) Are our client satisfied with the services they have received? What is the most important question that has not been asked yet?

The model of the intervention is the conceptual framework that serves as the logical rationale for offering the intervention in light of what is known about the dynamics of the target behavior being addressed.