All of the Following Are Reasons Why Social Workers Use

question 18

Multiple Choice

All of the following are reasons why social workers use program evaluations to inform practice except that they:

• A) Assure us that planned programs provide the services we intended
• B) Identify side effects that were not intended or planned for
• C) Allow us to spend our resources on unmet needs as we discover gaps among those being served
• D) Assure our programs will be funded by interested financial resources

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Definitions:

Control Group

A control group in scientific experiments is the group of subjects that does not receive the treatment or experimental condition and is used as a benchmark to measure the effects of the treatment.

Control Group

In experimental research, a group of subjects that does not receive the experimental treatment and is used as a benchmark to measure how the other tested subjects do.

Placebo

An inert or innocuous substance given to a patient instead of genuine medication, used in studies to evaluate the efficacy of treatments.

Confederate

An individual who is part of an experiment but pretends to be a participant and is aware of the study's aims.