MSW TEST PAPER UPDATED QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
GRADED A+
✔✔Which of the following statements is/are true about evidence-based practice
a. The studies at the top of the research hierarchy usually involve clients who are very
much like those typically encountered in everyday social work practice.
b. Its proponents agree with its critics that it denigrates professional expertise and
ignores client values and preferences.
c. Real-world obstacles often prevent implementing it thoroughly in everyday social
work practice.
d. All of these.
e. None of these. - ✔✔c. Real-world obstacles often prevent implementing it thoroughly
in everyday social work practice.
✔✔Critical thinkers will:
a. Be willing to question and alter their own beliefs based on new experiences.
b. Be willing to question what those in authority assert as fact.
c. Question unstated assumptions underlying accepted practice wisdom.
d. All of these. - ✔✔d. All of these.
✔✔Qualitative methods:
a. Emphasize precise and generalizable statistical findings.
b. Are likely to tap deeper meanings.
c. Cannot be combined with quantitative methods in the same study.
d. Eschew objectivity entirely. - ✔✔b. Are likely to tap deeper meanings.
✔✔Which of the following statements is correct about evidence-based practice?
a. It is a process.
b. It is a list of interventions that will be effective with every client.
c. It refers to decisions about intervention effectiveness, only.
d. Idiosyncratic client attributes should be ignored when selecting the best intervention -
✔✔a. It is a process.
✔✔Which of the following statements is true about quantitative and qualitative
methods?
a. Qualitative research can sometimes pave the way for quantitative studies on the
same subject.
b. Quantitative research generally should come before qualitative studies on the same
subject.
c. Qualitative studies need to be followed by quantitative studies before the results can
be sufficient.
d. Quantitative studies need to be followed by qualitative studies before the results can
be sufficient. - ✔✔a. Qualitative research can sometimes pave the way for quantitative
studies on the same subject.
, ✔✔Which of the following statements is true about quantitative and qualitative
methods?
a. Quantitative studies are more likely than qualitative studies to be more generalizable.
b. Qualitative studies are more likely than quantitative studies to be more generalizable.
c. Qualitative studies tend to have less contextual detail than quantitative studies.
d. Quantitative studies are more likely than qualitative studies to use grounded theory. -
✔✔b. Qualitative studies are more likely than quantitative studies to be more
generalizable.
✔✔Which of the following statements is true about the phases of the research process
in mixed methods studies?
a. Data collection methods are determined during the problem formulation phase.
b. Data collection methods are determined during the study design phase.
c. The research question is posed during the study design phase.
d. The sequence of the problem formulation phase depends on whether qualitative or
quantitative methods are emphasized. - ✔✔b. Data collection methods are determined
during the study design phase.
✔✔Which of the following statements best typifies a mixed methods study?
a. A study that uses more than one type of quantitative method.
b. A study that uses more than one type of qualitative method.
c. A study that combines a qualitative method with a quantitative method.
d. All of these are equally likely to be called a mixed methods study. - ✔✔c. A study
that combines a qualitative method with a quantitative method.
✔✔A study of how the same clients discharged from a mental hospital in 2000 were
functioning in 2001, 2002, 2003, and so on through 2007 would be
a. an inductive study
b. a qualitative study
c. a longitudinal study
d. a cross-sectional study - ✔✔c. a longitudinal study
✔✔Which of the following illustrates the use of the inductive method?
a. hypothesis, observations, accept or reject hypothesis.
b. observations, pattern finding, and generalizations.
c. theory, hypothesis, observations, generalizations.
d. theory, observations, and generalizations.
e. generalizations, theory, and observations - ✔✔b. observations, pattern finding, and
generalizations.
✔✔If social workers wanted to find out how satisfied clients are, on the average, with
the services they received, they would undertake
a. a descriptive study.
b. a trend study
c. a cohort study.
GRADED A+
✔✔Which of the following statements is/are true about evidence-based practice
a. The studies at the top of the research hierarchy usually involve clients who are very
much like those typically encountered in everyday social work practice.
b. Its proponents agree with its critics that it denigrates professional expertise and
ignores client values and preferences.
c. Real-world obstacles often prevent implementing it thoroughly in everyday social
work practice.
d. All of these.
e. None of these. - ✔✔c. Real-world obstacles often prevent implementing it thoroughly
in everyday social work practice.
✔✔Critical thinkers will:
a. Be willing to question and alter their own beliefs based on new experiences.
b. Be willing to question what those in authority assert as fact.
c. Question unstated assumptions underlying accepted practice wisdom.
d. All of these. - ✔✔d. All of these.
✔✔Qualitative methods:
a. Emphasize precise and generalizable statistical findings.
b. Are likely to tap deeper meanings.
c. Cannot be combined with quantitative methods in the same study.
d. Eschew objectivity entirely. - ✔✔b. Are likely to tap deeper meanings.
✔✔Which of the following statements is correct about evidence-based practice?
a. It is a process.
b. It is a list of interventions that will be effective with every client.
c. It refers to decisions about intervention effectiveness, only.
d. Idiosyncratic client attributes should be ignored when selecting the best intervention -
✔✔a. It is a process.
✔✔Which of the following statements is true about quantitative and qualitative
methods?
a. Qualitative research can sometimes pave the way for quantitative studies on the
same subject.
b. Quantitative research generally should come before qualitative studies on the same
subject.
c. Qualitative studies need to be followed by quantitative studies before the results can
be sufficient.
d. Quantitative studies need to be followed by qualitative studies before the results can
be sufficient. - ✔✔a. Qualitative research can sometimes pave the way for quantitative
studies on the same subject.
, ✔✔Which of the following statements is true about quantitative and qualitative
methods?
a. Quantitative studies are more likely than qualitative studies to be more generalizable.
b. Qualitative studies are more likely than quantitative studies to be more generalizable.
c. Qualitative studies tend to have less contextual detail than quantitative studies.
d. Quantitative studies are more likely than qualitative studies to use grounded theory. -
✔✔b. Qualitative studies are more likely than quantitative studies to be more
generalizable.
✔✔Which of the following statements is true about the phases of the research process
in mixed methods studies?
a. Data collection methods are determined during the problem formulation phase.
b. Data collection methods are determined during the study design phase.
c. The research question is posed during the study design phase.
d. The sequence of the problem formulation phase depends on whether qualitative or
quantitative methods are emphasized. - ✔✔b. Data collection methods are determined
during the study design phase.
✔✔Which of the following statements best typifies a mixed methods study?
a. A study that uses more than one type of quantitative method.
b. A study that uses more than one type of qualitative method.
c. A study that combines a qualitative method with a quantitative method.
d. All of these are equally likely to be called a mixed methods study. - ✔✔c. A study
that combines a qualitative method with a quantitative method.
✔✔A study of how the same clients discharged from a mental hospital in 2000 were
functioning in 2001, 2002, 2003, and so on through 2007 would be
a. an inductive study
b. a qualitative study
c. a longitudinal study
d. a cross-sectional study - ✔✔c. a longitudinal study
✔✔Which of the following illustrates the use of the inductive method?
a. hypothesis, observations, accept or reject hypothesis.
b. observations, pattern finding, and generalizations.
c. theory, hypothesis, observations, generalizations.
d. theory, observations, and generalizations.
e. generalizations, theory, and observations - ✔✔b. observations, pattern finding, and
generalizations.
✔✔If social workers wanted to find out how satisfied clients are, on the average, with
the services they received, they would undertake
a. a descriptive study.
b. a trend study
c. a cohort study.
