Social Work Comprehensive Exam BSW (Kutztown University) meta practice - correct answer consideration of global social aspects that both overarch and interact with micro, mezzo, and macro practice Practice-Informed Research - correct answer Use practice experience to inform scientific inquiry Research-Informed Practice - correct answer Use research evidence to inform practice Three reasons social workers study statistics - correct answer 1. Social workers conduct research
- Social workers rely on others research findings
- Ethical responsibility to evaluate their own practices effectiveness
evidence-based practice - correct answer using the best available evidence to guide practice Data - correct answer measurement collected in research study Information - correct answer Data converted into a meaningful and useful context Variable - correct answer Characteristic or attribute that differs in quantity and quality among the people being studied Constants - correct answer Conditions that stay the same in the experiment 1 / 4
Value categories - correct answer different forms a variable can take Values - correct answer when difference in variables are described by numbers Frequency - correct answer The number of times that it occurs within a group of cases Conceptualization - correct answer the process of selecting what variables we will need to measure Operatonalization - correct answer How we are going to measure the variable we have conceptualized Reliability - correct answer degree of consistency of a measurement Validity - correct answer measurement is both reliable and is truly measuring what is to believed to be measured research hypothesis - correct answer statement we make about what we believe will happen Three forms of research hypothesis - correct answer One-tailed Two-tailed Null One-tailed hypothesis - correct answer is directional two-tailed hypothesis - correct answer is non-directional null hypothesis - correct answer variables are not related 2 / 4
Association - correct answer non-casual relationship, predicts that one value category of one variable will be found in another positive correlation - correct answer A correlation where as one variable increases, the other also increases, or as one decreases so does the other. Both variables move in the same direction.negative correlation - correct answer A finding that two factors vary systematically in opposite directions, one increasing as the other decreases.independent variable - correct answer Influence/cause dependent variable - correct answer The outcome factor; the variable that may change in response to manipulations of the independent variable.Nominal - correct answer least precise.assign number to non-orderly categories
1. YES
2. NO
- Undecided
or
1. MALE
2. FEMALE
Ordinal - correct answer category range (like from high to low) quantitative ratings
- very good
- good 3 / 4
- fair
- poor
- very poor
or
1. A.A.
2. BSW
3. MSW
4. DSW
Interval - correct answer no absolute zero point zero does not mean the absence of variable
examples: temperature, IQ score
Ratio - correct answer fixed, absolute and non arbitrary zero point
example: weight
Discrete variable - correct answer takes on finite number or values ( no decimals) Continuous variable - correct answer can take on all numerical values (can be a decimal) Mode - correct answer the most frequently occurring score(s) in a distribution Median - correct answer the middle score in a distribution; half the scores are above it and half are below it Mean - correct answer the average
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