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Research & Evidence-Based Practice Flashcards

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  1. A school social worker wants to understand the lived experiences of immigrant students navigating school systems. Which research methodology is MOST appropriate?

    Answer: Phenomenological qualitative study

    Phenomenological qualitative methodology is designed to explore and describe the lived experiences and meanings individuals assign to their experiences.

  2. The PICO framework used in evidence-based practice stands for:

    Answer: Population, Intervention, Comparison, Outcome

    PICO (Population, Intervention, Comparison, Outcome) is a structured format for formulating clinical questions to guide evidence searches.

  3. Which of the following represents the highest level of evidence in a traditional evidence hierarchy?

    Answer: Systematic review or meta-analysis of multiple RCTs

    Systematic reviews and meta-analyses that synthesize multiple RCTs are at the top of the evidence hierarchy because they pool data to provide the most reliable estimates of effect.

  4. A school social worker is required to obtain IRB approval before conducting research. What is the PRIMARY reason for this requirement?

    Answer: To protect human research participants from harm and rights violations

    Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) exist to protect human subjects from physical, psychological, social, and legal harms in research.

  5. A school social worker is implementing a program and tracks data weekly using a graph to determine if a student's behavior is improving. This is BEST described as:

    Answer: Progress monitoring through single-subject design

    Ongoing weekly data collection and graphing of individual student behavior is characteristic of single-subject design used for continuous progress monitoring.

  6. When adapting an evidence-based intervention for a culturally diverse student population, the school social worker should FIRST:

    Answer: Identify the core components that produce the intervention's effects before adapting surface features

    Effective cultural adaptation preserves core active ingredients (mechanism of change) while adapting surface features like language, examples, and delivery to fit the population.

  7. A school social worker reads a study reporting a confidence interval of [2.1, 8.4] for the mean reduction in anxiety scores. What does this mean?

    Answer: We are 95% confident the true population mean difference falls between 2.1 and 8.4

    A 95% confidence interval indicates that if the study were repeated many times, 95% of such intervals would contain the true population parameter.