Read each question and. answer the questions below. Please keep each question with the scenario.
You are an intern at a non-profit humanitarian agency this summer, and in addition to your normal tasks, you must complete a design analysis on a topic relevant to the organization and your social work curriculum. In other words, you will describe how a study in your topic would be approached. Suppose you are interested in studying issues in refugee resettlement.
1. Show how a specific topic in this area would be researched using a cross-sectional design.
2. How would you use a panel design to address the same issue?
You are working for a federal employment agency and are interested in studying issues related to the effects of long-term unemployment on adults between 50 and 65 years of age. Your research question is, “What are the effects of long-term unemployment on older individuals and their families?” How would you approach your study?
1. State at least two hypotheses you could derive from the question.
2. How would you use a panel design to address the same issue?
Suppose you are a social worker with an agency that provides supported housing and employment for individuals with cognitive disabilities. It bothers you that, although family members, employers, and staff are systematically surveyed to assess their satisfaction with services, there is no attempt to systematically collect satisfaction data from clients. Your initial interest is in assessing the satisfaction of clients in the supported employment program and you consider modifying traditional workplace and service satisfaction scales.
1. What are some reasons you might expect to find problems of reliability in the scales when you try them out with supported employment clients? Identify three ways you might assess three different types of reliability regarding the scales.
2. How might you assess the validity of the scales with your clients?
uppose you work for an agency that provides service dogs to veterans with service-related disabilities. The dogs are trained for the needs of each individual veteran and learn specific tasks, including mobility assistance (e.g., pulling wheelchairs, assisting with balance, and helping those with vision impairments), alerting to imminent health events (e.g., seizures, flashbacks), and assisting with other needs. You have been asked to create a survey that will be used twice: first, when veterans initially apply, asking what they want the dog to do, and then again, after they have actually had the dog for a month, asking how the dog is performing the tasks. Clients will be asked to indicate how much they agree with each statement on a scale of 1 (disagree completely) to 5 (agree completely). The questions are as follows:
Q# QUESTION ON APPLICATION QUESTION AFTER RECEIPT OF DOG
1 I need help with activities of daily living. My dog helps me with activities of daily living.
2 I need help with instrumental activities of daily living. My dog helps me with instrumental activities of daily living.
3 I need help getting around. My dog helps me get around.
4 I do not feel safe. My dog helps me feel safe.
5 I worry my disability may get worse. My dog has relieved my worries that my disability will get worse.
6 My life is not good as it is. My life is good with my dog.
1. Review each of the questions and identify the problems with them.
2.Propose an alternative, more methodologically sound approach to collecting the needed information.
