Exam 11: Developing Your Knowledge Base and Intervention

Suppose you need to describe a tutoring intervention for middle school students at risk for dropping out of school before graduation. Tutoring will be provided daily for 1 hr for 6 weeks. The nature of this intervention is solution-focused. It will be provided by teachers certified in tutoring for at-risk youth. Grades for the semester of the tutoring will be compared to the previous semester as an evaluation of success. What is the best way you could describe the structure of this intervention?

The data from a study of client outcome would be of practical significance if the amount of gain of clients is noteworthy.

If the objective of your intervention was to improve knowledge, an intervention that provided ______ could be justified on a logical basis.

The knowledge base can be most useful in answering which of the following questions?

The ______ is/are the best guard against cherry-picking information, according to the text.

Think of a research question you would like to pursue in a study. Explain which of the following concepts would be most useful to you as you develop a knowledge base for your study: theory, paradigm, ideology.

How is the logical justification of the selection of a program different from the empirical justification of it? Explain how you would justify the selection of a given intervention (or program) on a logical basis rather than an empirical basis?

The personnel of the intervention refers to the ______.

How do you distinguish between the goal and the objective of a human service intervention? In other words, what should the goal reveal and what should the objective reveal and how are they different? Give an example of a goal and an objective for a familiar human service program or intervention.

In the knowledge base part of the report, you should find ______.

An ideology is more powerful than a theory in the identification of the boundaries of a person's beliefs.

Suppose you need to describe a tutoring intervention for middle school students at risk for dropping out of school before graduation. Tutoring will be provided daily for 1 hr for 6 weeks. The nature of this intervention is solution-focused. It will be provided by teachers certified in tutoring for at-risk youth. Grades for the semester of the tutoring will be compared to the previous semester as an evaluation of success. What is the best way you could describe the objective of this intervention?

The knowledge base for an evaluative study should contain the definition of the target behavior being treated and an analysis of that behavior.

One of the tasks in the use of electronic databases for the literature search is the identification of key words.

Suppose that you had decided to undertake a study of the relationships between stress, stressors, and social support. What are two major consequences of a failure to develop a knowledge base (a literature review) for this study?

The highest (best) level of evidence is the systematic review.

Suppose you need to describe a tutoring intervention for middle school students at risk for dropping out of school before graduation. Tutoring will be provided daily for 1 hr for 6 weeks. The nature of this intervention is solution-focused. It will be provided by teachers certified in tutoring for at-risk youth. Grades for the semester of the tutoring will be compared to the previous semester as an evaluation of success. What is the best way you could describe the model of this intervention?

It is suggested that a literature review of evidence for an evaluation research study begin with a ______.

Suppose you need to describe a tutoring intervention for middle school students at risk for dropping out of school before graduation. Tutoring will be provided daily for 1 hr for 6 weeks. The nature of this intervention is solution-focused. It will be provided by teachers certified in tutoring for at-risk youth. Grades for the semester of the tutoring will be compared to the previous semester as an evaluation of success. What is the best way you could describe the goal of this intervention?

Which of the following would be most useful as a guide for determining statistical significance in a research study?