Test Bank For Statistics for Evidence-Based Practice and Evaluation
Chapter 1
Chapter 1: Why Study Statistics?
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Learning about statistics:
a. Is risky.
*b. Will help one avoid being misled by those who misuse statistics as a way to
propagandize their political agenda.
c. Is important despite its lack of relevance to practice.
d. Can interfere with one’s capacity to be a warm, compassionate practitioner.
ANS: B PG: 7
2. Learning about statistics:
a. Will help you be more effective in marshalling data to advocate for a new policy or
program.
b. Will help you see through the misleading uses of statistics by your adversaries and to
show others how their use of those statistics is misleading.
c. Will help you evaluate the effectiveness of your own practice.
*d. All of these.
ANS: D PG: 4-8
3. Which of the following statements best depicts research findings on the effectiveness of
interventions that have been popular among helping professionals and that have seemed
theoretically sound?
* a. Some were found to be ineffective
b. None were found to be harmful
c. Earning a professional degree assures that your efforts to help people will be effective
d. All of these
ANS: A PG: 4
4. Suppose a newspaper reports that the average number of times students in your college or
university engage in binge drinking during the academic year is twice. What is appropriate to
conclude?
a. The typical student binge drinks approximately twice per year
b. Most students binge drink approximately twice per year.
c. Both of these are appropriate conclusions.
*d. None of these.
ANS: D PG: 6-7
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5. Which of the following is/are good reasons for human service practitioners to learn about
statistics?
a. Some interventions have been found to be harmful.
b. Professional ethics.
c. Compassion for clients.
*d. All of these.
ANS: D PG: 4-7
6. Which of the following is/are true about statistics?
a. Nobody misuses statistics to mislead people.
b. Statistics are irrelevant to clinical levels of practice.
*c. Statistics can help you evaluate the effectiveness of your own practice.
d. All of these.
ANS: C PG: 4-7
7. If the average annual income for 10 people who are eating lunch together is $100,000,
then:
a. The typical person at the table earns $100,000 per year.
*b. It is conceivable that none of them earn $100,000 per year.
c. Most people at the table earn approximately $100,000 per year.
d. None of them earns more than $900,000 per year or less than $20,000 per year.
ANS: B PG: 5-6
8. Which of the following statements is NOT true about learning about statistics/:
a. Statistics help us to summarize an otherwise overwhelming mass of data.
b. Learning about statistics can help make you a more effective advocate for policies you
think are desirable and against policies that you think are undesirable.
c. They are not relevant to administrative levels of practice.
d. Understanding statistics is an important aspect of evidence-based practice.
ANS: C PG: 4-7
True-False Questions
T 1. The most important reason why practitioners should learn about statistics is that they want
to help people.
PG: 4
T 2. Understanding statistics makes one a more compassionate practitioner.
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PG: 5, 7
T 3. Keeping current with and critically appraising practice related studies and basing one’s
practice on evidence-based knowledge makes one a more ethical practitioner.
PG: 5
F 4. Because anyone can manipulate and distort statistics to support whatever point they are
trying to make, it is best to ignore statistics rather than understand them.
PG: 7
F 5. Learning about statistics pertains primarily to levels of practice dealing with policy
analysis, and is of much less relevance to clinical practice.
PG: 4-6
Essays
1. In light of the type of practice you think you might want to engage in as a professional
practitioner, explain how understanding statistics can make you a more compassionate,
ethical, and effective practitioner.
2. Explain how, in light of the possibility of extremely atypical cases, just reporting an
average can be misleading.
3. Discuss why understanding statistics is an important part of evidence-based practice.
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, Test Bank For Statistics for Evidence-Based Practice and Evaluation
Chapter 2
Chapter 2: Use of Statistics in Evidence-Based Practice
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Evidence-base practice:
a. Is a list of empirically supported interventions that practitioners should employ
regardless of their practice judgment.
*b. Is a process for making practice decisions based on integrating the best research
evidence with practice expertise and knowledge of client attributes.
c. Is a process for making practice decisions based solely on research evidence.
d. Assures practice effectiveness.
ANS: B PG: 12
2. EBP questions can ask:
a. What intervention has the most likelihood of success?
b. What factors best predict desirable or undesirable outcomes?
c. What type of assessment tool should be used?
*d. All of these.
ANS: D PG: 13
3. Which of the following statements is true about searching for evidence in the second
phase of the EBP process?
* a. You might have to try different search terms before finding what you need.
b. It is a bad idea to start your search by going to the websites of the Cochrane
Collaboration or the Campbell Collaboration.
c. Professional literature databases should be avoided.
d. All search engines will immediately connect you to original research studies that you
can read in their entirety.
ANS: A PG: 13
4. Which of the following statements is true about published research studies?
*a. Some published research studies are fatally flawed.
b. Being published ensures that a research study is scientifically rigorous.
c. To be useful, research studies should be flawless.
d. Although some published studies might have minor flaws, none will be fatally flawed.
ANS: A PG: 14
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Chapter 1
Chapter 1: Why Study Statistics?
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Learning about statistics:
a. Is risky.
*b. Will help one avoid being misled by those who misuse statistics as a way to
propagandize their political agenda.
c. Is important despite its lack of relevance to practice.
d. Can interfere with one’s capacity to be a warm, compassionate practitioner.
ANS: B PG: 7
2. Learning about statistics:
a. Will help you be more effective in marshalling data to advocate for a new policy or
program.
b. Will help you see through the misleading uses of statistics by your adversaries and to
show others how their use of those statistics is misleading.
c. Will help you evaluate the effectiveness of your own practice.
*d. All of these.
ANS: D PG: 4-8
3. Which of the following statements best depicts research findings on the effectiveness of
interventions that have been popular among helping professionals and that have seemed
theoretically sound?
* a. Some were found to be ineffective
b. None were found to be harmful
c. Earning a professional degree assures that your efforts to help people will be effective
d. All of these
ANS: A PG: 4
4. Suppose a newspaper reports that the average number of times students in your college or
university engage in binge drinking during the academic year is twice. What is appropriate to
conclude?
a. The typical student binge drinks approximately twice per year
b. Most students binge drink approximately twice per year.
c. Both of these are appropriate conclusions.
*d. None of these.
ANS: D PG: 6-7
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5. Which of the following is/are good reasons for human service practitioners to learn about
statistics?
a. Some interventions have been found to be harmful.
b. Professional ethics.
c. Compassion for clients.
*d. All of these.
ANS: D PG: 4-7
6. Which of the following is/are true about statistics?
a. Nobody misuses statistics to mislead people.
b. Statistics are irrelevant to clinical levels of practice.
*c. Statistics can help you evaluate the effectiveness of your own practice.
d. All of these.
ANS: C PG: 4-7
7. If the average annual income for 10 people who are eating lunch together is $100,000,
then:
a. The typical person at the table earns $100,000 per year.
*b. It is conceivable that none of them earn $100,000 per year.
c. Most people at the table earn approximately $100,000 per year.
d. None of them earns more than $900,000 per year or less than $20,000 per year.
ANS: B PG: 5-6
8. Which of the following statements is NOT true about learning about statistics/:
a. Statistics help us to summarize an otherwise overwhelming mass of data.
b. Learning about statistics can help make you a more effective advocate for policies you
think are desirable and against policies that you think are undesirable.
c. They are not relevant to administrative levels of practice.
d. Understanding statistics is an important aspect of evidence-based practice.
ANS: C PG: 4-7
True-False Questions
T 1. The most important reason why practitioners should learn about statistics is that they want
to help people.
PG: 4
T 2. Understanding statistics makes one a more compassionate practitioner.
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PG: 5, 7
T 3. Keeping current with and critically appraising practice related studies and basing one’s
practice on evidence-based knowledge makes one a more ethical practitioner.
PG: 5
F 4. Because anyone can manipulate and distort statistics to support whatever point they are
trying to make, it is best to ignore statistics rather than understand them.
PG: 7
F 5. Learning about statistics pertains primarily to levels of practice dealing with policy
analysis, and is of much less relevance to clinical practice.
PG: 4-6
Essays
1. In light of the type of practice you think you might want to engage in as a professional
practitioner, explain how understanding statistics can make you a more compassionate,
ethical, and effective practitioner.
2. Explain how, in light of the possibility of extremely atypical cases, just reporting an
average can be misleading.
3. Discuss why understanding statistics is an important part of evidence-based practice.
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, Test Bank For Statistics for Evidence-Based Practice and Evaluation
Chapter 2
Chapter 2: Use of Statistics in Evidence-Based Practice
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Evidence-base practice:
a. Is a list of empirically supported interventions that practitioners should employ
regardless of their practice judgment.
*b. Is a process for making practice decisions based on integrating the best research
evidence with practice expertise and knowledge of client attributes.
c. Is a process for making practice decisions based solely on research evidence.
d. Assures practice effectiveness.
ANS: B PG: 12
2. EBP questions can ask:
a. What intervention has the most likelihood of success?
b. What factors best predict desirable or undesirable outcomes?
c. What type of assessment tool should be used?
*d. All of these.
ANS: D PG: 13
3. Which of the following statements is true about searching for evidence in the second
phase of the EBP process?
* a. You might have to try different search terms before finding what you need.
b. It is a bad idea to start your search by going to the websites of the Cochrane
Collaboration or the Campbell Collaboration.
c. Professional literature databases should be avoided.
d. All search engines will immediately connect you to original research studies that you
can read in their entirety.
ANS: A PG: 13
4. Which of the following statements is true about published research studies?
*a. Some published research studies are fatally flawed.
b. Being published ensures that a research study is scientifically rigorous.
c. To be useful, research studies should be flawless.
d. Although some published studies might have minor flaws, none will be fatally flawed.
ANS: A PG: 14
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