Exam 4: Factors Influencing the Research Process

Explanatory studies are designed to find answers to which of the following questions?

To obtain approximate,tentative answers about how widespread an outbreak of welfare rights protests is,a researcher would conduct

Which of the following illustrates the use of the inductive method?

How are theory and research linked? Give examples.

If social workers wanted to find out how satisfied clients are,on the average,with the services they received,they would undertake

Describe one way in which organizational or political concerns could influence social work researchers to modify their research plans.

It is sometimes difficult for IRB panelists to decide whether to approve a proposed study.

A study that attempts to gather data as ammunition for advocating for a particular cause is being guided by what paradigm?

Social work practice models,like theories,can influence the research process.

Critical social science researchers view research as a way to marshal ammunition in support of their social change efforts.

Explain why attrition can be an important problem in panel studies and how it can distort the results.

Research designs can be descriptive,explanatory,or exploratory,but never more than one.

Although cultural competence is important in social work practice,it is NOT important in social work research.

In deduction we start from observed data and develop a generalization that explains the relationship between the observed concepts.

Explain how a study could be conducted within the critical social science paradigm using research methods associated with the positivist paradigm.

It is sometimes possible to predict something correctly and accurately even if we don't yet understand it.