Quiz 7 - Chapters 13&14 Flashcards
In single case experiments, increasing the number of measurement points:
Increases our ability to pinpoint unlikely coincidences and therefore infer what is causing changes in the dependent variable
Suppose you instruct a couple to have a typical conversation why you observe them in your office. This would be an example of:
Obtrusive Observation
The length of the baseline in single-case designs should be:
as long as is practically and ethically possible
Target problems can quantified in terms of their:
Frequency, duration, and/or magnitude
Suppose you wish to measure progress in increasing the amount of time a child in institutional care spends studying as an indicator of the effectiveness of your group work intervention. What approach would be the least vulnerable to reactivity problems?
Have cottage parents run spot checks in the cottage at different intervals
Obtaining grade, attendance, and conduct data from school reports would be considered the _________ ___________ in regard to measuring the impact of group work intervention on school performance
Least Obtrusive
A practitioner tests whether a new technique will be effective in reducing the number of time-outs required in play therapy sessions for children with conduct disorders. In each of the two sessions before implementing the new technique, five time-outs occurred. In each of the two sessions after implementing the new technique, no time-outs occurred. The practitioner should conclude:
There was an insufficient number of data points in the study to warrant causal inferences
It can apply to many diverse research designs and methods is true about what?
Program Evaluation
Agency administrators who ask in-house program evaluators to assess their program’s effectiveness are likely to…
Imply that they expect the results of the evaluation to be positive
