Social Work Capstone Seminar
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Course Introduction
The Social Work Capstone Seminar is designed as a culminating experience for students in their final year of social work study, integrating theoretical knowledge with practical skills acquired throughout the program. Through reflective discussion, critical analysis, and project work, students synthesize learning from coursework and field placements, exploring current trends, ethical dilemmas, and challenges in contemporary social work practice. Emphasis is placed on professional competence, advocacy, and continued professional development as students prepare for transition into the workforce or graduate study.
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Empowerment Series Research Methods for Social Work 9th Edition by Allen Rubin
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Chapter 1: Why Study Research
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Q1) Which of the following statements is/are true regarding practice effectiveness?
A) It is safe to assume that well-trained social workers will be effective regardless of which interventions they employ.
B) Social work practice consists largely of interventions and procedures that have not yet received adequate testing.
C) Knowledge of research methods and knowledge of practice are separate and unrelated.
D) All of the above are true.
E) None of the above is true.
Answer: B
Q2) If a study has been published, you can be sure that it has been conducted objectively and rigorously.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) Legitimate ex post facto hypothesizing requires additional research.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: Evidence-Based Practice
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Q1) Evidence-based practitioners will
A) assume that evidence on practice effectiveness will find its way to them.
B) assume that the published studies they find are scientifically valid.
C)use research methods to evaluate whether the evidence-based actions they take are resulting in the outcomes they seek to achieve.
D) All of the above are true.
E) None of the above is true.
Answer: C
Q2) The top-down approach to searching for evidence has the advantage of feasibility but can be risky in light of the fallibility and possible bias of experts.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) The evidence supporting the influence of common factors on treatment outcome implies that the choice of intervention does not matter at all.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 3: Factors Influencing the Research Process
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Q1) Which of the following statements is/are not true about social work practice models?
A) Some models expand over time, encompassing new areas of research findings and theory.
B) Distinctions between some models can become blurred over time.
C) One's orientation to a practice model can influence the way one chooses to conduct a research study.
D) All of the above are true.
E) None of the above is true.
Answer: D
Q2) Which of the following statements is/are true about the hypothesis: Child welfare workers with social work degrees have a are more effective in preventing child maltreatment than are child welfare workers without a social work degree?
A) Type of degree is the dependent variable.
B) Child maltreatment is the independent variable.
C) Social workers is a variable.
D) All of the above are true.
E) None of the above is true.
Answer: E
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Chapter 4: Comparing Quantitative, Qualitative, and Mixed
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Q1) Research procedures are more likely to be specified in advance in qualitative studies than in quantitative studies.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following is/are an aim of quantitative studies?
A) Deeper understanding.
B) Precision.
C) Discovery.
D) All of the above.
Q3) Which of the following is/are an example of a quantitative research question?
A) What proportion of returning combat veterans have a substance use disorder?
B) How many clients receiving our agency services are homeless?
C) How effective is our agency in reducing homelessness?
D) All of the above.
Q4) Identify the reasons for using mixed methods.
Q5) Problem formulation is the last phase of the research process in mixed-methods studies.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Identify and briefly describe three advanced mixed-methods designs. Page 6
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Chapter 5: The Ethics and Politics of Social Work Research
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Q1) Ethical issues are distinguished from political issues in research in that
A) ethics deals more with the substance of research.
B) politics deals more with the methods of research.
C) formal codes of accepted political conduct are not comparable to the codes of ethical conduct.
D) ethics deals more with the use of research.
Q2) Explain why bias and insensitivity regarding gender and culture in a study's methodology can be relevant to the ethics of the study.
Q3) Science is never influenced by political matters.
A)True B)False
Q4) The ethics as well as the politics of research hinge on ideological points of view. A)True B)False
Q5) The norm of voluntary participation threatens the social research goal of generalizability.
A)True B)False
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Chapter 6: Culturally Competent Research
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Q1) Which of the following statements is/are true about whether research is culturally competent?
A) It does NOT influence how statistical findings are interpreted
B) If Not culturally competent, it risks having a harmful effect on the minority community.
C) It is NOT related to whether childcare is provided to research participants.
D) It has NO bearing on the selection of sampling procedures.
Q2) Which of the following statements is true about culturally competent interviewing?
A) All interviewers must be of the same ethnicity as the respondent
B) Although matching interviewer and interviewee ethnicity is not a foolproof guarantee that an interview will be culturally competent, it is a good rule of thumb to follow whenever possible.
C) Interviewers should NOT be of the same ethnicity as the respondent.
D) Avoiding cultural bias is ensured if interviewer speaks the respondent's language.
Q3) Describe the steps you would take early on in designing to maximize the cultural competence of your research on a social problem among a Native American tribe living on a reservation.
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Chapter 7: Problem Formulation
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Q1) Descriptive research attempts to answer the question "why."
A)True
B)False
Q2) Dr. Jordan chronicles people's attitudes toward an upcoming poverty program. Jordan is doing explanatory research.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following is an attribute of a good research question?
A) There should be many possible acceptable answers to it.
B) It need NOT be stated in specific terms.
C) It need NOT be answerable by observable evidence.
D) Its answer should be relevant to others concerned about social work or social welfare.
Q4) Agency member resistances to research often result in the need for much more time than anticipated to complete the research.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Identify and give an example of each of the four units of analysis. Illustrate the ecological fallacy and reductionism using your examples.
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Chapter 8: Conceptualization in Quantitative and Qualitative Inquiry
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Q1) Select one of the following concepts. Give a complete conceptual and operational definition.
a. child abuse
b. marital happiness
c. friendship
Q2) Construct a hypothesis predicting that a particular intervention will be effective regarding a particular long-term outcome. Then identify a mediating variable and a moderating variable that could be assessed in testing the hypothesis. Explain why one variable is the mediating variable and the other is the moderating one.
Q3) To elicit valid information, your scale should be sufficiently long to take at least an hour to complete.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Which of the following is NOT an operational definition of degree of homophobia?
A) a score on a scale measuring attitude about homosexuality.
B) whether or not participates in protests against gay marriage.
C) view of homosexuality.
D) number of derogatory statements made about homosexuality in a conversation about it.
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Chapter 9: Measurement
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Q1) Face validity is a form of empirical validity.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Asking a group of experts whether the items on a scale appear to measure what they intend to measure is a good way to assess the scale's A) predictive validity.
B) concurrent validity.
C) construct validity.
D) content validity.
Q3) Unobtrusive observation can be used for the purpose of minimizing social desirability bias.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Concurrent validity is one form of criterion-related validity.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Given a scale to measure family risk of child abuse or neglect, contrast a way to measure the criterion-related validity of the scale with a way to measure that scale's construct validity.
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Chapter 10: Constructing Measurement Instruments
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Q1) The following exemplifies a proper way to ask a question: "Are you satisfied with this textbook and with your research instructor's teaching style?"
A)True
B)False
Q2) In looking over the responses given to the items in question 7, you notice that only one of your 2000 respondents had missing data on any of the items. That respondent scored 3 on the first 3 items but left item 4 blank. You should:
A) give the respondent a total score of 9.
B) assign the middle value or the respondent's average value to item 4, giving that respondents a total score of 12.
C) exclude that respondent from your data analysis.
D) either exclude that respondent from your analysis or assign the middle or average value to item 4
Q3) There are several formats for contingency questions. Give illustrations of three different formats, using examples not presented in the text. How does the format for contingency questions differ from the format used for matrix questions? Give an illustration of the latter to differentiate it from the former.
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Chapter 11: Causal Inference and Experimental Designs
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Q1) Discuss how attrition can affect the validity of an experiment and describe steps to minimize attrition.
Q2) Explain the elements of the classical experimental design. Is this design especially useful in dealing with causal relationships? If yes, why? If not, why?
Q3) Explain what is meant by internal and external validity.
Q4) The Solomon four-group design:
A) combines the classical experimental design with the posttest-only control group design.
B) combines the classical experimental design with the pretest-only control group design.
C) combines the classical experimental design with the static-group comparison design.
D) combines the static-group comparison design with the one-group pretest-posttest design.
Q5) Attrition effects are automatically controlled when participants are assigned randomly to experimental and control groups.
A)True B)False
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Chapter 12: Quasi-Experimental Designs
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Q1) Discuss how qualitative methods can be used to try to avoid or alleviate the pitfalls identified above in essay number 2.
Q2) Videotaping treatment sessions should be used only as a last resort when assessing intervention fidelity.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Recommendations to maximize compliance with the case assignment protocol in experiments or quasi-experiments include
A) having agency staff implement the case assignment decisions.
B) NOT explaining to agency staff the purpose and nature of the case assignment protocol.
C) pilot testing the randomization procedure in the agency.
D) assigning control of the case assignment protocol to multiple agency staff members.
Q4) Explain why the validity of quasi-experimental designs is strengthened by using multiple pretests, switching replications, and selecting a comparison group as similar as possible to the experimental group:
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Chapter 13: Single-Case Evaluation Designs
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Q1) In single-case experiments, increasing the number of measurement points:
A) makes it more difficult to identify precipitating conditions during assessment.
B) makes it harder to change the intervention plan at the point at which no progress is occurring.
C) increases our ability to pinpoint unlikely coincidences and therefore infer what is causing changes in the dependent variable.
D) lessens internal validity.
Q2) The term research reactivity means that
A) at least some client improvement can be attributed to the impact of the research. B) the research was effective in depicting desired results.
C) there is a strong social-desirability bias in measurement.
D) a generalization of effects occurred.
Q3) Explain how B or B+ designs can have value in the evidence-based practice process despite lacking an adequate baseline phase.
Q4) Explain what is accomplished by replicating single-case designs. One part of your answer should address internal validity; another part should address external validity.
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Chapter 14: Program Evaluation
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Q1) If a rigorous experimental assessment of program outcome finds that a program is not effective in attaining its goals, then there is no need to evaluate the program's implementation.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Discuss and provide an example of the value of qualitative approaches to program evaluation.
Q3) Agency administrators and practitioners are likely to encourage maximum scientific rigor in evaluations of program outcome, irrespective of the funding implications.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The extent of need for a program or service always is accurately gauged by the amount of expressed demand for that program or service.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Describe five different approaches to needs assessment and their advantages and disadvantages.
Q6) Describe the impact managed care has had on program evaluation.
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Chapter 15: Sampling
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Q1) You want to examine the relationship between family size and family cohesion. You use as your sample all the students in this research methods class. What kind of sampling design are you using?
A) simple random sampling.
B) quota sampling.
C) cluster sampling.
D) stratified sampling.
E) available sampling.
Q2) In general, as sample size increases
A) sampling error increases.
B) sampling error decreases.
C) sampling error will remain the same regardless of changes in sample size.
D) measurement error decreases.
Q3) Telephone directories are notorious for being inadequate sampling frames. Suppose the population were defined as "all telephone subscribers in the directory's service area." What criticisms could you make of the telephone directory as a sampling frame?
Q4) What is the basic logic of probability sampling? How do such concepts as homogeneity, heterogeneity, sampling bias, representativeness, and probability of selection fit into this logic?
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Chapter 16: Survey Research
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Q1) Which of the following statements is recommended in email invitations to participate in an online survey?
A) Place the URL link to the survey site at the bottom of the screen under your invitation to participate.
B) Always send the email invitation early in the morning, regardless of the type of people you are surveying
C) Offer to share selected results from the study with everyone who completes the survey.
D) Avoid using a prize drawing as an incentive to participate.
Q2) Interview surveys have a number of advantages over mail surveys. Which of the following is NOT one of those advantages?
A) Higher response rates.
B) There is generally a smaller number of 'don't knows' and 'no answers.'
C) There are a smaller number of relevant responses given.
D) Observations can be made.
Q3) Probes are used more frequently in open-ended questions than in closed-ended ones.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 17: Analyzing Existing Data: Quantitative and Qualitative Methods
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Q1) Which of the following statements is true about analyzing historical data?
A) The original hypothesis can be revised continually throughout the analytic process.
B) Only qualitative methods can be used.
C) Quantitative methods are used more often than qualitative methods.
D) Their interpretation cannot be influenced by any particular theoretical paradigm.
Q2) When analyzing official government documents you should be concerned about the reliability of those documents.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Manifest coding has the advantage of tapping underlying meanings, while reliability is an advantage of latent coding.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Describe a study for which content analysis is the appropriate research method. Discuss how you would use manifest and latent coding. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the two coding schemes.
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Chapter 18: Qualitative Research: General Principles
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Q1) An advantage of qualitative research is that
A) it enables the researcher to draw conclusions about the population.
B) the researcher can control the variables under study.
C) social life can be studied in a natural setting.
D) hypotheses can be rigorously tested.
Q2) Which of the following is a weakness of qualitative research?
A) It measures phenomena too superficially.
B) It is inflexible.
C) It is weak on generalizability.
D) It cannot be used to study formal organizations.
Q3) Case studies use qualitative sources of evidence, only, never quantitative sources.
A)True
B)False
Q4) A study that begins with observations and then looks for patterns, themes, or common categories is using what method?
A) Being a complete participant
B) Participatory action research.
C) Grounded theory.
D) Client logs.
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Chapter 19: Qualitative Research: Specific Methods
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Q1) Qualitative researchers should wait to record observations until enough time has passed to put the events in a proper perspective.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following is the best probe in an informal conversational interview?
A) "Is that job better or worse then your old job?"
B) "Is that a better job because of the hours?"
C) "Tell me more about why that's a better job."
D) "Are you sure that that's a better job?"
Q3) Using the life-history method, researchers ask open-ended questions to discover how participants in a study understand the significant events and meanings in their own lives.
A)True B)False
Q4) Qualitative researchers should NEVER participate as an actor in the events under study.
A)True
B)False
Q5) How does qualitative interviewing differ from quantitative survey interviewing?
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Chapter 20: Qualitative Data Analysis
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Q1) Define what is meant by variable-oriented analysis and what is meant by case-oriented analysis. Give an example of a research project in which you would use variable-oriented analysis and one where you would use case-oriented analysis.
Q2) Professor Wang is interested in looking at the grandparent - grandchild relationship. Wang wonders whether grandparents assume different roles when providing care to grandchildren. That is, are some grandparents very distant from the grandchildren while others become surrogate parents? According to the Lofland's scheme, Wang is focusing on
A) frequencies.
B) causes.
C) processes.
D) structures.
E) magnitudes.
Q3) Identify at last one way that computer programs analyze qualitative data.
Q4) Concept mapping is appropriate for both qualitative and quantitative analysis. A)True B)False
Q5) Describe how coding, memoing, and concept mapping are used in qualitative analysis.
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Chapter 21: Descriptive Data Analysis
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Q1) Why do percentages allow us to compare two or more frequency distributions? Give examples.
Q2) A codebook is a guide for locating variables and interpreting entries in one's data file.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The mean is almost always sufficient in portraying the typical case in a distribution.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Professor Jones asked respondents for the exact number of times they had to evacuate their home because of a hurricane. Jones, therefore, is measuring this variable at the ________ level.
A) nominal
B) interval
C) ratio
D) ordinal
Q5) The range is smaller than the interquartile range.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 22: Inferential Data Analysis
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Q1) A correlation of .60 indicates that 36 percent of the variance in the dependent variable has been explained.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The term "clinical significance" means the same thing as "substantive significance.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The selection of the significance level
A) is fixed at .05 for social science research.
B) depends on the size of the population.
C) is arbitrary, although .05 is frequently used.
D) must be decided after finishing the analysis.
Q4) In reference to sampling error, which of the following statements is valid?
A) The smaller the sample, the less sampling error.
B) Sampling error is an inverse function of sample size.
C) Inferential statistics are addressed to sampling and non-sampling errors.
D) Random assignment ensures no sampling error.
Q5) Explain what is meant by "chance as a rival hypothesis.
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Chapter 23: Writing Research Proposals and Reports
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Q1) Suppose you wanted to develop a research proposal to conduct a small and inexpensive study you need no more than $10,000 involving clients in your child welfare agency. Describe the steps you would take to find a funding source and maximize your chances of success in obtaining funding.
Q2) Even if you have already revised your research report and are satisfied with it, you should ask your colleagues to read it and criticize it - and then, based on their criticism, you should revise it yet again.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following statements is/are TRUE about writing research proposals?
A) It is important to know the funding source's priorities before preparing your proposal.
B) The literature review section should be as extensive as possible, citing minute details of every study ever done on your topic.
C) Research proposals for qualitative studies do not differ from research proposals for quantitative studies.
D) All of these are true.
Q4) Describe how qualitative research reports often differ from quantitative ones.
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