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Social Work Research Vocab (first quarter) Flashcards

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Qualitative Studies

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Least strongest evidence

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Dependent variable

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The topic of your investigation- what you’re trying to explain or predict

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Systematic Reviews/Meta-Analyses

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Strongest Evidence

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5 steps of EBP

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  1. Forming in answerable question
  2. Searching for evidence to answer the ?
  3. Evaluating the evidence for impact, applicability, validity
  4. Determining the best intervention by integrating the evidence
  5. Evaluating the intervention and prior steps to improve upon them
    Rosen 2003
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Randomized Control Trials

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Strongest research design

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The Quantitative Research Process

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The Scientific Method

  1. A question is formed
  2. Information is gathered
  3. A hypothesis is made
  4. Conceptualizing a study
  5. The data are analyzed
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Objective

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As free from subjective influence as possible

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Replicated

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Reproduced by others

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Hypothesis

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A clearly expressed statement that can empirically be tested about the relationship of two or more variables

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Deductions

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Predictions about a specific circumstance or outcome

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Research design

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A blueprint that outlines the approach to be used to collect the data. It describes the condition under which the data will be collected, how the subjects or respond it’s will be selected, what instruments will be used, and generally provides information about who what when where and how the research project will be completed.

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Exploratory research

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Designs used with topic about which very little information is available.

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Descriptive Studies

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Quantitative design, large-scale efforts that attempt to characterize a population group in a definitive way.

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Representativeness

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The extent to which the smaller sample resembles the larger population

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Explanatory studies

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Experiments in which hypothesis from certain theories are tested, and control or comparison groups are often used.

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IRB

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Institutional Review Board

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HIPAA

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Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act

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Culturally-sensitive Evaluation: Generalizability

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Majority outcome studies conducted with urban, white, English speakers; may not generalize to other groups.

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Culturally-sensitive Evaluation: Measurement

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Developed & normed by WASPs= measurement bias. Examples: ACT, SAT, IQ tests, TCAP, etc.

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Internal validity

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Whether the intervention was truly responsible for the observed differences in the dependent variable.

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Extraneous variables

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Those (variables) not purposely incorporated into the experiment

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Explanatory Research

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Seeks to demonstrate a correlation of two or more variables

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Process Evaluation

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The program is being administrated as it was meant to be

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Outcome Evaluation

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Is the program or intervention effective?

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Internal Validity

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Minimize extraneous variables that are related to selection of subjects, data collection, evaluation of findings, behavior of the subjects= credibility

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External Validity

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The findings can be GENERALIZED to a larger population apart from the study’s subjects

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Measurement Validity

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Th assessment instrument chosen actually measures the concept that it purports to measure

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Threats to Internal Validity

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  1. Maturation
  2. History
  3. Testing itself
  4. Instrumentation (the how)
  5. Selection of Subjects
  6. Statistical Regression
  7. Attrition
  8. Interaction effects
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Threats to External Validity

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  1. Reactive or interactive effect- the pretest affects the subjects’ sensitivity or response to critical research variables
  2. Interaction effect of selection bias- gathering a non-random sample of subjects due to research design or methodology
  3. Reactive effects of arrangements- the subject’s behavior or responses are affected due to a treatment setting different from the subject’s normal existence
  4. Multiple-treatment interaction- Applying more then one treatment intervention may have a cumulative effect that is difficult to determine.
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Reliability

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Consistency (measures a phenomenon with accuracy and predictability)

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Halo effect

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Researcher bias & preconceptions about subjects

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Validity

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Accuracy

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Internal consistency

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individual test items correlate well with the entire scale- there are no outliers. Expressed as the coefficient alpha.

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SPSS

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Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (software used to determine the reliability coefficient of new instruments, indicating the relative strength of individual items and their contribution to the power of the scale as a whole)

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Interrater reliability

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Intervention procedures and data collection is administered uniformly in order to insure reliability, especially with multiple observers

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Triangulation

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Reliability from the interviews & observations found in qualitative research depends on cross-checking and verifying the data with other sources.

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3 Categories of Instrument Validity

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Content validity
Criterion validity
Construct validity

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Content validity

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an instrument accurately measures the behaviors, attitudes or characteristics of the construct that it purports to measure

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Criterion validity

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a scale’s ability to correlate positively with external criteria that are associated with the behavior, attitude or characteristic being measured

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Convergent validation

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There is a relationship between theoretically relevant variables and the instrument

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Construct validity

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evidence that reveals patterns in the way that the instrument performs along theoretical lines. This allows the researcher to test hypotheses about relationships among constructs (i.e. biological vs. social origins of alcoholism)

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Discriminant validity

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there is no relationship between irrelevant variables and the instrument

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Known groups validity

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significant differentiation between groups in the presence of a certain trait or attitude

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Factor analysis

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Statistical examination of test items to focus on the most valid items and reduce inconsequential ones

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SOFA

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Statistics Open For All (a Linux software comparable to SSPS)

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Concurrent validity

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a correlation between the research instrument & another scale with documented validity that is administered simultaneously

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Predictive validity

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the scores on a test or scale are able to predict future behavior or attitudes

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Member checking (Qualitative)

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the preliminary results are provided to some or all of the original subjects for review of accuracy & interpretation

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Non-probability Sampling (NPS)

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A process of selecting cases for inclusion in the study where the probability of a case being selected is unknown or unequal to the chance that other cases will be collected (lower external validity)

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Probability Sampling

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A process of selecting axes for inclusion in the study so that each case has the same chance as the other cases of being selected

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Simple Random Sampling

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names in a hat, etc.

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Systemic Random Sampling

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choosing a sample that is representative of the population or sample frame

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Sample Frame

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The pool of subjects from which the study participants will be drawn

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Snowball Sampling

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Finding participants through other participants.

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Stratified Random Sampling

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Random selection of subjects from sub-group pools

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A Case

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a research participant and their responses

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data set

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all the cases together (research participants’ responses)

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