Ethical Considerations In Sw Research - Rat 1

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Sensitive Information includes:

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Age, income, number of arrests, drug, and alcohol use, sexual practices

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Anonymity
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Cannot be identified by the researcher or anyone else

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Anonymity is violated when...

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1) Personal identifying information is obtained (name, SS#, phone #)
2) You recognize or know the person

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Confidentiality
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Protecting and not revealing information

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Informed Consent
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Subjects are provided with full information about their participation and includes their rights, risks, and what to expect

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Assent
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Agrees to participate

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Instiutional Review Boards
(IRB)

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Approve research efforts proposed by faculty and students.

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IRBs decisions can be either..

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1) Approve
2) Ask for revisions
3) Refuse

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IRB reasons for refusal may include...

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-too great a risk of harm
-seems to trivial or insignficant

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Ethical Dilemma
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A choice between 2 or more likely but balanced parts

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Common ethical dilemmas include..

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-Deception of participants
-Reimbursing participants
-Denial of treatment

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It is helpful to do the following when dealing with an ethical dilemma...

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1) Write down the problem
2) Discuss it with a colleague
3) Read books on ethical decision making

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Ways Statistics are used to Lie include...

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1) Misguiding by reporting only % percentages
2) Using misproportions
3) Presumption of similarity
4) Personal biases
5) Misrepresentation in graphics

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Sample size influences...

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the credability of an outcome

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When making comparisons...

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All elements must be as similar as possible

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Personal biases can make it difficult to...

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Present true and accurate pictures

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Researchers should not choose a biased sample means...

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That researchers should not choose persons that support their position

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True or False.
The quality of a sample is not as important as the size of the sample.

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FALSE

The quality of a sample is just as important as its size.

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When constructing categories for presentation in tables it is important to...

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Apply equal intervals

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Developing Categories for Qualitative Data

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Developing Categories for Qualitative Data

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Text Data
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The data obtained from doing qualitative research

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Data Transcription
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Converting any data (printed, verbal, hand written) into a workable format

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Written Record
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A record of the research process as it unfolds and includes the variopus methodological and analytical decisions made

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A written record is important because it...

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1) Helps document decisions made
2) Allows others to verify steps
3) Provides details for replicating the study

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Personal Notes includes...

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All uncensored statements refelcting your thinking and feeing about work and people

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4 Categories used in a written record

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1) Observational Data
2) Methodological notes
3) Theoretical Notes
4) Personal Notes

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Observational Data includes...

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Concrete, detailed descriptions experienced through the 5 senses

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Coding
-definition-

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Formally catagorizing

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Methodological Notes includes...

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A record of all methodological decisions (whom to interview, how to code)

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Theoretical Notes includes...

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A list of all initial impressions, explanations, and emerging hypotheses

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Datum
-definition-

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Each numbered response in a qualitative study.
May include only one word or several pages of text

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Steps to Coding

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1) Identify meaningful pieces of data
2) Assign Intial codes
3) Review, Refine, and Reorganize Categories
4) Make Comparisons across Categories

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When coding it is important to...

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-Read through all the transcripts at least once without attempting to assign codes
-Deliniate the choices made and the reasons for those chocies

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Open Coding is also known as...

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First-level coding or Ad Hoc Classificatory scheme

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Code
-definition-

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A word, phase, symbol, abbreviation used to identify or label a piece of data as fitting into a specified category.
-helps to retreive and organize data

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Open Coding
-definition-

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The first step towards classifcation where you categorize your data by putting similar pieces of data together.

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Actions done during the 3rd step of coding...

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-Reexamine the sorting decisions
-Make note of categories you expected to find but didn't
-Ask a colleage to test the analytic scheme by applying the sortinig criteria established to 1+ transcripts

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Axial Coding is also known as...

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Second-level coding

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Axial Coding
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Examining the relationships that occur among our categories

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Themes
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Patterns you find occuring among categories