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Social science approach
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greatly reduces the potential sources of error in every day reasoning
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Evidence-based practice
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philosophy and process designed to forward effective use of professional judgment in integrating info regarding each client's unique characteristic, circumstances, preferences, and actions and external research findings
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Exploratory research
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seeks to learn how people get along in the setting in question, what meanings they give to their actions, and what issues concern them
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Explanatory research
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identifies causes and effects of social phenomena and predicts how one phenomenon will change or vary in response to some other
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Evaluation research
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determines the effects of social policies and the impact of programs
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measurement validity
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the study measures what it aimed to measure
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causal validity
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truthfulness of an assertion that A causes B
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systematic reviews
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set criteria for the kinds of studies to be included based on study design, the population studied, and outcomes (helps determine impact of intervention)
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deductive research
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starts with a theory and then some of its implications are tested with data
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inductive research
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starts with the researcher first collecting the data and then developing a theory that explains patterns in the data
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serendipitous/anomalous findings
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unexpected patterns in data (should then reason inductively)
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positivist
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there is an objective reality that exists apart from the perceptions of those who observe it; the goal of science is to better understand this reality (deductive)
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postpositivist
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there is an objective reality, but it is complex and there are limitations of the researchers who study it and, for social workers, the biases they bring to the study of social beings (deductive)
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interpretivism
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social reality is socially constructed and the goal of social scientists is to understand the meanings people give to reality, not to determine how it works apart from these interactions (inductive)
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constructivist paradigm
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emphasizes importance of exploring how different stakeholders in a social setting construct their beliefs
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triangulation
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the use of two or more different measures of the same vaiable (can strengthen measurement)
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mutually exclusive
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every case can have only one attribute
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exhaustive
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every case can be classified into one of the categories
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systematic error
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can predict the direction of an error (putting weight scale somewhere you know will be less)
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interrator reliability
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more than one observer rates the same people, events, or places
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