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| Can everything in the social work become scientific data? Explain |
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Definition
| Yes, everything can in the social word but not all questions are equally worthy. The questions that warrant the expense and effort of social research are feasible, socially important, and scientifically relevant and need to approached using scientific methods. |
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| Explain the difference between open-ended and closed-ended data |
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Definition
| open-ended questions are question to which the respondent replies in his or her own words. In close-ended questions the question provides pre formatted response choices for the recipient. |
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| What is the difference between positivism and postpositivism |
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Definition
| Postpositivism is challenging the traditional notion of the absolute truth of knowledge and recognize that we cannot be "positive" about our claims of knowledge when studying the behavior and actions of humans |
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| What is the basic difference between qualitative and quantitative research? |
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Definition
| Quantitative research is framed in terms of using numbers while qualitative research are using words. Quantitative research use close-ended questions while qualitative use open-ended questions. |
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| What does it mean to conduct a mixed method study? |
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Definition
| Mixed method research is an approach that combines or associates both qualitative and quantitative forms. It involves the use of boy approaches so that the overall strength of a study is greater than either qualitative or quantitative research. |
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| What do you know about surveys? |
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Definition
| A survey design provides a quantitative or numeric description of trends, attitudes, or opinions of a population by studying a sample of it. From sample results, the researcher generalizes or makes claims about the population. |
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| What separates an ethnographic study from a survey? |
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Definition
| In ethnography the researchers primary material is based on prolonged periods of observation in the subjects natural setting and open-ended interviews compared to surveys which uses questionnaires or structured interviews. The ethnographic research is also flexible and evolves in response to the field setting while surveys follow a strict pattern set up in the research design. |
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| What is sampling and why is it important? |
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Definition
| Sampling is the use of a population to study the population as a whole. To study the whole population is both expensive and time-consuming and sampling is important to make a research manageable. |
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Term
| What is a dependent and an independent variable? |
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Definition
| Dependent variable is a variable that is hypothesized to vary depending on or under the influence of another variable. Independent variable is a variable that is hypothesized to cause, or lead to, variation in another variable. |
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| What is the difference between qualitative and quantitative reliability? |
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Definition
| Quantitative reliability is when measurement procedures gives consistent scores while a qualitative research projects can't be repeated in exact manner by other researchers. Reliability in qualitative research is when several researchers observe the same people, events or places and their data is similar. |
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| What is the difference between qualitative and quantitative validity? |
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Definition
| In quantitative research validity is whether one can draw meaningful and useful conclusions from the scores on particular instruments while in qualitative research there are no set standards for validity. However evidence and methods on which conclusions are based must be considered carefully. |
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| What is a hypothesis and in which research approach are hypotheses used? |
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Definition
| Hypothesis is a tentative statement about empirical reality involving a relationship between two or more variables. It is used in deductive research. |
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| A questionnaire is a survey instrument containing the questions in a self-administered survey. (In interview-based studies it is called an interview schedule and is a survey instrument containing the questions asked by the interviews in an in-person or phone survey.) |
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| Mention at least two different ways of administering a survey |
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Definition
Mailed, Self-administered Surveys
Group-administered Surveys
Telephone Surveys
In-Person Interviews
Electronic Surveys |
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| Explain the difference between inductive and deductive research |
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| Deductive research is the type of research in which a specific expectation is deduced from a general premise and is then tested while inductive research is the type of research in which general conclusions are drawn from specific data |
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