Research & Program Evaluation

Research advances the profession when studies:

Evidence-based counseling practices assure the counselor and client that:

Research studies are prepared from a needs-based assessment. All are elements of a research needs- based assessment except:

Common factors have been researched across different treatment modalities and are considered important for effective treatment. Although there is disagreement as to the most effective common factors there do appear to be several factors observed. The most common or frequent factor observed in many of the studies is:

Which content segment of a research article is the author to include the relevance of an intervention regarding diversity and multicultural competence?

Research using a naturalistic inquiry, case studies, fieldwork, and field studies are all examples of what type of data collecting or research?

An elementary school counselor conducted an effectiveness study regarding one preventive strategy for one 3rd grade student. The more appropriate type of research might be:

When using a statistical table from a research textbook and completing the appropriate statistical analysis, the researcher would enter what type of table to read for a significance level?

When small amounts of data are available in article form and published in journals, it has been common for researchers to combine those small data findings. This is a series of studies referred to as:

A researcher conducted a study to determine the effectiveness of mindfulness technique for treating social anxiety. When writing a manuscript for publishing the findings and to make the results available to other therapists the following are to be included in the methods section except:

The Belmont report emphasized major principles for ethical decisions when conducting research for medical and psychological involvement with people. Which principle was not included in the Belmont Principles?

From a group of flight attendants at Jet Airlines, a researcher randomly selected 60 employees. The flight attendants were divided into two groups by random assignment of 30 to group A, a traditional in-service program on customer attitudes, and 30 to group B, a new program designed to help flight attendants cope with customer attitudes while on the airplane. The two programs were compared at the end of a six- month period by change scores on a scale designed to measure attitudes toward customers. The independent variable is:

In the previous question the operational definition of the dependent variable is:

Common factors in effectiveness studies have to do with all except:

A clinician developed a long-term research project to assess the efficacy of EMDR for clients experiencing anorexia nervosa. An effect size was met, and clients were pre-assessed to be within an acceptable severity range using a functional measure. Which methodological method controls for internal validity?

specific difficulty in conducting a true experimental design is:

A research study designed to determine public attitude toward depression would be most like which research method?

Identify which of the following research hypotheses suggests a true experimental research design:

A group of researchers are interested in evaluating the effectiveness of three different therapy approaches and a control group for clients who exhibit symptoms of depression due to unresolved grief issues. The researchers are also interested in whether males or females resolve grief issues differently. After six therapy sessions, the mean scores on the Beck Depression Inventory are compared among and between the four groups. From the available data which type of research design would these researchers utilize in analyzing the data?

In planning a research design with the focus on influencing variables that might affect the outcome the researcher would attempt to control for:

A school system initiated a new curriculum for reading. Students in the seventh grade were measured on several cognitive variables at the beginning of the school year and again at the end of the year. The data indicate that students who were exposed to the new curriculum were more proficient at the end of the year and were viewed as supporting the effectiveness of the new curriculum. Identify the threat to internal validity regarding the results.

Identify which of the following is a threat to internal validity, that is, an event that is not the independent variable that affects performance on the independent variable.

A researcher does not attempt to prove or disprove the hypothesis. Instead, a researcher attempts to collect data that supports or does not support the hypothesis. A good hypothesis is to (Gay & Mills, 2011):

A group of professors in the counseling department at a local university planned to investigate within their state the effectiveness of middle-school counselors. These researchers randomly selected 20 private middle schools in that state. In the selected schools, the team administered a packet of Likert-type instruments to all teachers and students in the seventh grade. The process of sampling used by the investigators in this study is known as:

A correlation coefficient of .93 can be described as:

Two evaluators ranked five dogs for running form for each of two days of trials. The evaluators assigned ranks for each dog for each day. Which correlation would be the most appropriate to analyze the data?

A type I error in a null hypothesis is a:

The following information was reported in a recent journal article. The mean score for group A was significantly higher than the mean score for group B (p < 01). This statement by the researcher means there is a:

A teacher administered two different forms of a test measuring math achievement to all students. She wanted to know if there is a relationship between the scores on the first form and the second form. What statistical technique should she use?

If the teacher in the previous question wanted to know if there is a difference between the raw scores on each of the two forms, what parametric test should she use?

What method of research would be used for the following problem? The researcher hypothesizes that premarital counseling contributed to better marital adjustment. The researcher selected a group who had been married for one year and had undergone pre-marital counseling and compared them to a group (also married one year) but had not:

Suppose that you want to test the hypothesis that in seal families with only two seals, the first-born is more gregarious than the second-born. You randomly select matched pairs of puppies with each pair consisting of the first-born puppy and the second-born puppy from a given family. You administer the puppy chow test of gregariousness/ shyness and derive a mean score of 30 first-born puppies and 30 second-born puppies. What would be the appropriate statistical technique?

What is the appropriate research design for the following hypothesis? A researcher hypothesized that randomly selected students who received computer-assisted instruction would have greater gains in algebra achievement than students who do not receive computer- assisted instruction.

If we decrease the probability of a Type I error by choosing alpha small, we:

A researcher sets out to determine if fifth-grade students in Georgia have a higher or lower self-esteem rating than first-grade students. The researcher randomly selects several fifth-grade and first-grade classes from several different schools across Georgia. This is an example of what type of sampling?

What research design is recommended for evaluating program and counselor effectiveness due to the complexity of measurement in monitoring and improving a program or intervention?

The results segment of a published article is to contain all except:

The discussion segment of a published article is to contain all except:

Publication is intended to further the findings in the specified problem; however, what aspect included in the discussion advances the importance of research in the field (objective 1)?

A concern that research participants may raise in signing an informed consent to participate in a study is that in signing that document they may be:

An article appearing in a professional counseling journal reported a power effect size very low. It is likely the reader would expect the researcher to report the decision to:

An ethical advantage in using a wait list as opposed to a control group is:

There is growing concern in the use of waiting list control designs in psychological and behavior intervention research because: