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Social Work Research (Threats to internal validity (selection bias:…
Social Work Research
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Qualitative Research: knowledge is inherently a subjective experience, filtered through humans, basis of communication, never objective, verified through consensus, understood through paradigms
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Feminist: knowledge is best framed from experiences of those who biologically differ from the majority
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Critical Theory: knowledge comes from the framework of culture, society, and political structure
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Queer Theory: Knowledge is built from framework of sex, gender, race, and culture to the end of de-simplifying words used to describe experiences
Participatory Action: knowledge comes from those studied they have ultimate say in how knowledge is used
Grounded Theory: knowledge comes from identifying patterns as best possible independent of previous knowledge or context
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Epistemology: how we know what we know, way of understanding
Authority: understanding through role models, or someone who has more experience or education.
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Media: world wide, accessible, and different perspectives of information
Tradition: way a family or community practices or engages in knowledge, it's consistent, and part of one's identity and cultural heritage
TROUT: Tentative, Replicable, Observable, Unbiased, Transparent
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correlation: 2 variables that are related in terms of frequency and intensity. Correlation does not cause causation. One event must precede the other. Eliminate competing variables.
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Internal validity: the level of confidence that you can say the independent variable changed the dependent variable
Secondary data: data someone else collected, can be anywhere or anything
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Single subject design: test intervention/control group. Well defined dependent variable. Independent variable can be taken away. measure baseline -- intervention -- baseline
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Placebo effect: a "fake" treatment. Anything that seems to be a "real" medicine treatment but isn't.
Recognizing flaws in unscientific sources: inaccurate observation, overgeneralization, selective observation, ex post facto hypothosizing
Evidence based practice: is considering values and expectations of clients and involving them as informed participants in the decision making process.
CIAO: Client characteristics, Intervention being considered, Alternative interventions, Outcome
NOIR: Nominal: named, Ordinal: ranked variables
Lit Reviews: describes problems, what has happened in the past, why you're doing it. to give consent of the outline of the paper
Survey: satisfaction with services, teacher evaluations, marketing hook, describing the population, needs of groups.
Coding: data entry, use NOIR variables,