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Alex interviews the same survivors of a hurricane immediately after the hurricane and then again at 3 month intervals over two years to see how the effects of the hurricane on them change over time. Alex is conducting a:

Compensation for participants in research should

Suppose that Jane Doe, MSW properly engages in all of the steps of the EBP process, and then decides that the best evidence indicates that the quality of the therapeutic alliance explains all the variation in client outcome and that the intervention chosen explains none of the variation. In other words, she accepts the Dodo Bird verdict, based on the studies that supported that verdict. This would mean that Jane is NOT really being evidence-based in her practice.

A friend of yours, a senior, took the Graduate Record Exam in September and scored in the 99th percentile. In February your friend took the same exam over again. This time your friend scored in the 84th percentile. As a research methodology student, you told your friend that his/her lowered score was probably due to

A family preservation program director helps design a study that evaluates the effectiveness of her program to keep children living with their abusive parents by providing the families with daily home visits by social workers. She expects the evaluation to show a dramatic reduction in reported child abuse incidents. Instead, the results show an increase in reported child abuse incidents. The director then concludes that the program was undoubtedly effective, reasoning that there really could not possibly have been an increase in actual abuse due to her program, just an increase in reportage of abuse due to closer monitoring in the daily home visits. The director is committing the error of

Which of the following is NOT a type of reliability?

The following exemplifies an improper way to ask a question: “Are you satisfied with this textbook and with your research instructor’s teaching style?

Jossie’s research examines people who have been incarcerated, their reintegration into society after incarceration, and how they are expected to fulfill the duties and obligations of full citizenship, yet are denied the rights and privileges of full citizenship including the right to vote. Existing research shows when people who were incarcerated are released and retain their voting rights, they rarely exercise them, even for those who consistently voted prior to their incarceration. What kind of sampling criterion would be most appropriate for this study?

According to the NASW Code of Ethics, social workers violate their ethical responsibilities if they refrain from using research to guide their practice