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Social Work Research Final Exam
Questions And Answers
Quiz 11
Carla would like to conduct a qualitative study to try and understand why circus performers
are so closely knit and unwilling to relate with non-circus people. She realizes she may have
some difficulty in designing and implementing her study, starting with how she will sample
her population. Circus people tend to live in separate communities cut off from the rest of the
world. Carla has a friend, Mickey, who used to perform in the circus but has since left for a
career in finance. He still keeps up with his friends and family in the circus business. What
type of sampling method should Carla use? - answers✔✔Snowball Sampling - Carla should
ask Mickey if he thinks some of his friends or family would participate and then ask those
persons to help her find others for her study.
A non-probability sample is one in which all of the people from a single population are
equally likely to be selected for the sample. - answers✔✔False
Samples are often studied instead of a whole population because collecting data from a
population can require more:
All of these are true
Time
Effort
Workers to collect data
Work - answers✔✔All of these are true
A list of people from which a sample will be drawn is called the sampling: -
answers✔✔Frame
Random sampling means we sample a population based on: - answers✔✔Everyone having an
equal chance of being selected
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What sampling method allows a social worker to generate a sample from his/her own
caseload of clients? - answers✔✔Convenience
Which choice shows a probability sampling method?
Snowball
Convenience
Quota
Random
Purposive - answers✔✔Random
Which choice shows a non-probability sampling method?
Random
Stratified
Systematic
Snowball
Cluster - answers✔✔Snowball
Which choice has only non-probability sampling methods?
Snowball, purposive, convenience
Purposive, quota, stratified
Snowball, random, systematic
Purposive, snowball, stratified
Random, stratified, systematic - answers✔✔Snowball, purposive, convenience
As sampling error _______, the ability to generalize research results_________. -
answers✔✔Increases, decreases
The main problem with non-responses to surveys is that: - answers✔✔Non-respondents may
differ from respondents in significant ways
11/11/2024 3:45PM
Social Work Research Final Exam
Questions And Answers
Quiz 11
Carla would like to conduct a qualitative study to try and understand why circus performers
are so closely knit and unwilling to relate with non-circus people. She realizes she may have
some difficulty in designing and implementing her study, starting with how she will sample
her population. Circus people tend to live in separate communities cut off from the rest of the
world. Carla has a friend, Mickey, who used to perform in the circus but has since left for a
career in finance. He still keeps up with his friends and family in the circus business. What
type of sampling method should Carla use? - answers✔✔Snowball Sampling - Carla should
ask Mickey if he thinks some of his friends or family would participate and then ask those
persons to help her find others for her study.
A non-probability sample is one in which all of the people from a single population are
equally likely to be selected for the sample. - answers✔✔False
Samples are often studied instead of a whole population because collecting data from a
population can require more:
All of these are true
Time
Effort
Workers to collect data
Work - answers✔✔All of these are true
A list of people from which a sample will be drawn is called the sampling: -
answers✔✔Frame
Random sampling means we sample a population based on: - answers✔✔Everyone having an
equal chance of being selected
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What sampling method allows a social worker to generate a sample from his/her own
caseload of clients? - answers✔✔Convenience
Which choice shows a probability sampling method?
Snowball
Convenience
Quota
Random
Purposive - answers✔✔Random
Which choice shows a non-probability sampling method?
Random
Stratified
Systematic
Snowball
Cluster - answers✔✔Snowball
Which choice has only non-probability sampling methods?
Snowball, purposive, convenience
Purposive, quota, stratified
Snowball, random, systematic
Purposive, snowball, stratified
Random, stratified, systematic - answers✔✔Snowball, purposive, convenience
As sampling error _______, the ability to generalize research results_________. -
answers✔✔Increases, decreases
The main problem with non-responses to surveys is that: - answers✔✔Non-respondents may
differ from respondents in significant ways
