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Research Quiz 4

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According to the text the best kind of research to achieve the goals of longitudinal research
panel study
Which of the following is the unit of analysis that is Least Likely to be used in human service research
artifacts
According to the text human service professionals can play an important role in the political issues surrounding the selection of research problems by
Serving as advocate, inclusion on the social research agenda of problems relevant to there clients.
Qualitative research would probably be chosen over quantitative research when
a researcher believed that the aspects of the human experience being studied cannot be meaningfully reduced to numbers and measures
Which of the following would BEST illustrate the use of prior research as a source of a research topic
A research project that will use a sample of urban minority children
The text states that only concepts that are can be used in the research process
measurable
Which of the following types of research would generally be cheaper and faster to conduct
cross sectional research
If a research project collected data from heads of households about the characteristics of the household the unit of analysis would be
the group
When a research topic is selected on the basis of personal interest in a particular problem, the main purpose of the research should be to
advance scientific knowledge
One social researcher was interested in conducting research on battered women because she had been abused by her husband. This most clearly exemplifies selecting a research problem based on
personal interest
Which of the following would be Least Likely to be classified as a research problem selected on the basis of program evaluation
a study conducted to determine whether the propositions of exchange theory could predict which marriages would fail
A small scale trial run of all of the procedures planned for use in a research project is called a
pilot study
In a literature review, a systematic search is conducted for which kinds of information
all of the answers represent information sought in a literature review
The type of research that is intended to provide a single snapshot in time of some phenomenon is
cross sectional research
Which of the following would best illustrate the program as the unit of analysis in research
boot camps
In addition to behavior or characteristics of clients human service practice research has also focused on this area as an important source of research problems
the mode and process of human service practice itself
In regard to theories the text states that nearly all research should at a minimum
have some implications for verifying existing theory.
Based upon a review of the literature a researcher should
learn from others experiences and avoid pitfalls in earlier research
The review of the literature in research typically has which of the following goals
all of the answers represent goals of a literature review
Which of the following is NOT included in the text as a possible source of research problems
units of analysis
The elements whose characteristics we wish to describe or explain and about which data that will be collected are called
units of analysis
As a general rule the ___________ are the data in a research project that__________ will be needed to analyze them.
less structured; more time
We conduct a research project in which we collect data from individual teenagers about their drug use and then draw conclusions about rates of drug use in the communities the teenagers are from. This research may well be subject to
the reductionist folicy
When the text refers to the politics of research problem selection it is referring to
how access to power and resource affect research
Research on Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) was delayed in the early 1980s because
both the Reagan Administration was cutting social programs, and the disease first appeared in groups for whom they powers-that-be felt little sympathy
The ecologically fallacy would be best defined as
inferring something about individuals based on data collected about group
If you wanted to study changes in the ways in which children who were born deaf adapt to their handicap at different ages, the preferred research method to use would be
longitudinal research
Which of the following best illustrates the source of the research problems for researchers at the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) describes in Research in Practice 4.1
Policy implementation
One of the major weaknesses of cross sectional research is that
you cannot observe changes in the same people over time
Prior research is a fruitful source of research problems because
all research projects have limitations and leave some research questions unanswered
Which of the following is true of reactivity
it is a problem for all sciences
qualitative research would probably be chosen oven quantitative when
our knowledge of a topic is sketchy and the research exploratory
Identifying and properly defining the concepts that will be the focus of a research study is called
a conceptual development
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