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You want to survey homeless teenagers who are living on
the streets. Since there isn't a listing of these teens, in
order to get a large enough sample for your study, you
have to ask subjects to introduce you to other teenagers
who meet your study criteria. What type of sampling are
you doing? Answer: Snowball sampling
The results of a survey indicate that 90% of UK students
believe that there should be more psychological
counseling services available to them through the Student
Health Program. If there is a 3% margin of error reported
for this survey, what is the actual percentage of students
who support having more counseling services? Answer:
Between 87% and 93%
You are planning to survey 30 directors of local service
agencies regarding the need for a proposed new service.
You need the information as soon as possible in order to
meet a grant proposal deadline—that is, time is an
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important factor. What would probably be the best way to
conduct your survey? Answer: Telephone
Which of the following is not a method of unobtrusive data
collection? Answer: Online survey
The advantages of unobtrusive data collection as a
methodology include which of the following? Answer:
Minimal risks to subjects involved in the study
Which of the following is an example of social indicator
data? Answer: All of the above are examples of social
indicators of data
Which term describes the idea that a small number of
representative sampling units can give you accurate
information about the overall population? Answer:
Sampling Theory
You are conducting a survey of BASW students because
you want to know what elective courses they think would
be most useful and relevant to practice. You get a list of all
BASW students in UK's CoSW and select every other
student on the list to be in your sample. What type of
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sampling are you doing? Answer: Systematic random
sampling
Which response best describes content analysis?
Which of the following is a disadvantage to conducting
content analysis in social work research? Maintaining
consistency in categorizing or coding of items can be
difficult if more than one social work researcher is involved
in the process.
Compared to quantitative research, how is qualitative
research generally perceived? It is regarded as less
reliant on statistics than quantitative research.
Qualitative researchers seek to understand social
relationships and patterns of interaction by doing which of
the following? Observing study subjects in their natural
environment
Which term describes qualitative researchers' practice of
immersing themselves in the world of those being
investigated? Participant observation