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infers cause and effect
(causality)
they test hypothesis, examine causal relationships, are experiemental or quasi experimental, and provide eveidencet support or refute an explanation |
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| knowledge level continuum |
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| range of knowledge levels from exploratory to explanatory |
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Explore-qualitative
Describe-quantitative
Explain- quantitative
Evaluate- qualitative and quantitative |
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| Steps in the evidence based practice process |
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1. formulate a practice based question
2. search for evidence
3. evaluate the quality of the evidence
4. indentufy all the intervention options
5 choose an intervention
6. monitor the intervention
evaluate the outcomes and document the results |
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| General steps in the research process |
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| observations and or measurements, make assumption, test assumption, and revise assumption |
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| search for practical and applied research results that can be utilized in actual social work practice situtations |
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| Qualitative Research approach |
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| interpretive (intepretations of their reality) and subjective |
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| 4 ways qualitative researcher's collect data |
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| observation,interviews, artifacts and documents, and focus groups |
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| Steps in the quantitative process |
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1. problem identification
2. selection of specific variables
3. study design
4. data collection
5. data analysis
6. interpretation of findings
7 presentation and dissemation of findings |
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| positivist toward measurability, objectivity, reducing uncertainty, duplication, and the use of standardized procedures |
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predicts specific relationships
for example eating habits increase the depression goes up or the more sleep the better the grades |
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| Quantitative approach vs qualitative approach |
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| Quantitative is positivist and objective and qualitative is interpretive and subjective |
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| Three aspects of causal argument |
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1. IV before DV in time
2. statistical coorealtion
3. resonable explanation
in order to be causal there needs to be two groups |
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are linked to variables
for example an indicator of my mood (happy or sad) is an operational definition |
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| non directional hypothesis |
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expect to find a relationship between something
(there is a relationship between sleep and grades |
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