Written test for social workers. Testing in social work
Collection of tasks by discipline
"Theory and Methods social work» part I (code - TMP1)
Exercise 1.
Question 1. At what time in our country does social work begin to take shape as a professional activity?
1. in the 80s;
2. in the 70s;
3. in the early 90s;
4. in the mid-90s;
5. in the late 90s.
Question 2. In what year was the new profession of a social worker, a specialist in social work, introduced in Russia?
1. in 1991;
2. in 1992;
3. in 1993;
4. in 1994;
5. 1995
Question 3. In what year was the Government Decree adopted? Russian Federation"On strengthening the social security of military personnel serving on the territory of the RSFSR"?
1. August 30, 1988;
2. September 1, 1989;
3. October 3, 1990;
4. November 5, 1991;
5. December 6, 1992
Question 4. In what year did the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Federation adopt a special resolution on the social protection of the poor in the period of price liberalization?
1. 1995;
2. 1994;
3. 1993;
4. 1992;
5. 1991
Question 5. What is the date of adoption of the Law "On additional measures for the protection of motherhood and childhood":
1. 1991;
2. 1992;
3. 1993;
4. 1994;
5. 1995
Task 2.
Question 1. When did the republican long-term program "Migration" begin to be implemented?
1. in 1991-1992;
2. in 1992-1993;
3. in 1993-1994;
4. in 1994-1995;
5. in 1995-1996
Question 2. Name the number of people who are not employed labor activity registered with the Federal Employment Service at the beginning of 1993:
1. 1 million people;
2. 2 million people;
3. 3 million people;
4. 4 million people;
5. 5 million people
Question 3. What is the amount of the allowance from the minimum wage established since January 1994 for each child under the age of 6 years:
1. 50%;
2. 60%;
3. 70%;
4. 80%;
5. 90%.
Question 4. How many poor citizens received support at home through the emergency social assistance system in 1994?
1. 3 million people;
2. 1 million people;
3. 2.5 million people;
4. 2 million people;
5. 1.5 million people
Question 5. What is the date of adoption of the Law "On the Fundamentals of Social Services in the Russian Federation":
1. 1992;
2. 1993;
3. 1994;
4. 1995;
5. 1996
Task 3.
Question 1. In what year was approved federal program"Children of Russia"?
1. 1993;
2. 1994;
3. 1995;
4. 1996;
5. 1997
Question 2. Name the number of charitable associations and organizations in Russia by mid-1995:
1. 1110;
2. 2220;
3. 3330;
4. 4440;
5. 5550.
Question 3. In what year did the Government of the Russian Federation prepare the Reform Program social sphere before the year 2000?
1. 1995;
2. 1996;
3. 1997;
4. 1998;
5. 1999
Question 4. What is the ratio between the minimum and maximum wages in Russia at the present time:
1. 5: 25;
2. 4: 18;
3. 3: 40;
4. 2: 30;
5. 1: 26.
Question 5. Social progress in what area, as well as major historical facts and events, determined the contours of the social life of the twentieth century?
1. in public;
2. in ethical;
3. in the social;
4. in economic;
5. in the humanitarian.
Task 4
Question 1. How many approaches to solving social problems have been developed as a result of theoretical research?
1. one;
2. two;
3. three;
4. four;
5. five.
Question 2. What are the approaches to solving social problems developed as a result of theoretical research:
1. second, third and fourth answers;
2. revolutionary and transformative;
3. reformist;
4. anthropological;
5. liberal.
Question 3. Supporters of what theoretical approach to solving social problems believed that the causes of a person's social ills lie in himself?
1. ethnic;
2. revolutionary and transformative;
3. reformist;
4. anthropological;
5. liberal.
Question 4. Name the author of the book "Social Diagnosis":
1. R. Titmus;
2. V. Dubinsky;
3. A. Kozlov;
4. S. Chorbinsky;
5. M. Richmond.
Question 5. Name the theorist of social work, who considers poverty as a disease, as the inability of an individual to independently organize his independent life:
1. Pinker;
2. Titmus;
3. Richmond;
4. Esping-Anderson;
5. Simmel.
Task 5.
Question 1. On what theory is the European model of social protection based in post-war years up to the present day?
1. welfare states;
2. paternalistic;
3. corporatist;
4. ethical;
5. individualistic.
Question 2. What is the share of social spending in GDP in Western countries in the 80s:
1. 20%;
2. 10%;
3. 25%;
4. 45%;
5. 30%.
Question 3. What is the base model social development typical for the US and Japan?
1. corporatist;
2. paternalistic;
3. ethical;
4. conservative;
5. individual.
Question 4. What theory underlies the corporatist basic model of social development?
1. traditionalist;
2. rational;
3. universalist;
4. neoconservative;
5. liberal.
Question 5. What are the main directions of the American social security system:
1. social insurance system;
2. system of targeted assistance;
3. charity system;
4. first and fifth answer options;
5. social assistance system.
Task 6.
Question 1. What can be attracted and used to meet a specific need or solve a specific problem?
1. power;
2. opportunities;
3. resources;
4. funds;
5. potential.
Question 2. What is the theoretical and organizational list of many views on practical social work?
1. the problem of resources;
2. capacity problem;
3. the problem of opportunities;
4. the problem of funds;
5. capacity problem.
Question 3. What does it mean for people to actually participate in the natural flow of resources in society and in the specific social environment surrounding the client?
1. realize the goals;
2. to use a complex of personal and public resources;
3. organize the execution;
4. meet the needs;
5. formalize plans.
Question 4. What is the nature of the social problem?
1. subjective;
2. natural;
3. public;
4. subjective-objective;
5. objective.
Question 5. Name the science whose subject is professional help needy:
1. sociology;
2. social policy;
3. social rehabilitation;
4. social management;
5. socionomy.
Task 7.
Question 1. Name the elements of social work:
1. object;
2. goal;
3. funds;
4. first and fifth answers;
5. subject.
Question 2. What element in social work are those who need help?
1. object;
2. subject;
3. purpose;
4. means;
5. need.
Question 3. What are the different groups of people who have difficulty in solving the problems that arise in their lives?
1. subjects of social work;
2. problem groups;
3. objects of social work;
4. needy;
5. socially unprotected.
Question 4. What categories can be divided into groups of people who are objects of social work?
1. socially unprotected;
2. first, fourth and fifth answers;
3. needy;
4. persons with deviant behavior;
5. marginal.
Question 5: At what time did the state's social policy become systematic?
1. in the 16th century;
2. in the 17th century;
3. in the 18th century;
4. in the 19th century;
5. in the XX century.
Task 8.
Question 1. In the system of what levels can the concepts of social work be structured?
1. primary and secondary;
2. secondary and third level;
3. third and fourth levels;
4. fourth and fifth levels;
5. fifth and sixth levels.
Question 2. What concepts reflect the empirical experience of social work, the results of observations and experiments?
1. secondary;
2. third level;
3. primary;
4. fourth level;
5. fifth level.
Question 3. What levels of social work concepts interpret the primary concepts and form theoretical positions through logical operations on them?
1. primary;
2. secondary;
3. third level;
4. fourth level;
5. fifth level.
Question 4. Name the number of groups in the structure of concepts and categories of social work according to its content:
1. one;
2. two;
3. three;
4. four;
5. five.
Question 5. Which area of the organization of social work should include a concept that reflects the specifics of social work in educational institutions, medicine, employment centers, social security services, crisis centers, etc.?
1. social theory;
2. social adaptation;
3. resocialization;
4. social control;
5. social practices.
Task 9.
Question 1. What is the sign for classifying the concept and categories of social work as a semi-functional interdisciplinary activity:
1. difference in methodological approaches;
2. difference in practical approaches;
3. difference in theoretical approaches;
4. difference in functional approaches;
5. difference in methodological approaches.
Question 2. Categories of social work in which approach are associated with the behavior and actions of the individual, refracted through the prism of internal mechanisms and structures of cognition?
1. communicative and role-playing;
2. cognitive (cognitive);
3. socio-pedagogical;
4. theoretical;
5. vitally oriented.
Question 3. The central concept of which theory is the “model of life”, based on maintaining the balance of the individual with his environment, i.e. on strengthening human adaptive abilities?
1. social systems;
2. public systems;
3. natural systems;
4. ecological systems;
5. economic systems.
Question 4. What is the system of measures taken by the society and its various structures to ensure guaranteed minimum sufficient conditions life, maintenance of life support and active existence of a person?
1. social protection;
2. social support;
3. social work;
4. social rehabilitation;
5. social guarantee.
Question 5. What is meant by a system of measures, regulations and conditions aimed at meeting a certain set of goods and services, the needs of maintaining life support and the active existence of people?
1. social rehabilitation;
2. social assistance;
3. social support;
4. social work;
5. social guarantees.
Task 10.
Question 1. Name one of the key, fundamental concepts of the course "Theory and Methods of Social Work":
1. social worker (socionomist);
2. social management;
3. social guarantees;
4. social rehabilitation;
5. social work.
Question 2. Name complex science and academic discipline, integrating historical, sociological, hygienic, medical-demographic, organizational, informational, economic and other approaches in medicine and healthcare:
1. social work;
2. socionics;
3. social medicine;
4. sociology;
5. budget-insurance medicine.
Question 3. What are the main starting points, the most important structural elements logical forms of scientific theory and the fundamental rules of the empirical activity of social work:
1. categories;
2. basics;
3. patterns;
4. spheres;
5. principles.
Question 4. What principle of social work requires to exclude discrimination in the provision of social assistance on any grounds of ideological, political, religious, national, racial, age character?
1. social response;
2. versatility;
3. protection of social rights;
4. preventive orientation;
5. customer centricity.
Question 5. What principle of social work means the recognition of the rights of the client in all cases, except those where it is contrary to the rights and interests of other people?
1. maximizing social resources;
2. privacy;
3. tolerance;
4. client procentrism;
5. versatility.
Task 11.
Question 1. What principle of social resources comes from the fact that each social system inevitably allocates a minimum of funds for the provision of social assistance to its population?
1. minimization;
2. tolerance;
3. maximization;
4. client procentrism;
5. privacy.
Question 2. What principle is due to the fact that social work is carried out with a variety of categories of clients, including individuals who may not inspire sympathy for a specialist?
1. maximization;
2. privacy;
3. humanism;
4. altruism;
5. tolerance.
Question 3. What is the moral quality that characterizes the willingness of a person to sacrifice his interests for the benefit of other people:
1. altruism;
2. humanism;
3. kindness;
4. generosity;
5. dedication.
Question 4. Name the scientist who distinguished two types of altruism:
1. Nietzsche F.;
2. Comte O.;
3. Freud Z.;
4. Smelser R.;
5. Spencer G.
Question 5. Name the quantity educational institutions in the countries of Europe and America by 1910, engaged in the training of social workers:
1. 11;
2. 12;
3. 13;
4. 14;
5. 15.
Task 12.
Question 1. What is the date of the Association of Educational Institutions for Professional Social Work:
1. 1918;
2. 1919;
3. 1920;
4. 1921;
5. 1922
Question 2. Name the number of universities and colleges in the United States that train social workers:
1. 100;
2. 200;
3. 300;
4. 400;
5. 500.
Question 3. In what year in modern Russia training for social workers?
1. in 1991;
2. in 1992;
3. in 1993;
4. in 1994;
5. in 1995
Question 4. What is the proportion of women among students studying social work in Swedish educational institutions:
1. 40%;
2. 50%;
3. more than 60%;
4. 70%;
5. more than 80%.
Question 5. What is the proportion of men among students studying social work in the UK:
1. 10%;
2. about 20%;
3. more than 30%;
4. 40%;
5. 50%.
Task 13.
Question 1. How many stages can be identified in the development of social work?
1. one;
2. two;
3. three;
4. four;
5. five.
Question 2. What is the first stage in the development of social work:
1. end of the 19th century - 30s of XX century;
2. beginning of the 20th century - 40s of the XX century;
3. middle of the 20th century - 60s of the XX century;
4. end of the 20th century - early XXI century;
5. mid-19th century - 20s of XX century.
Question 3. In what year was the International Federation of Social Workers established?
1. 1955;
2. 1956;
3. 1957;
4. 1958;
5. 1959
Question 4. What science studies the patterns of behavior and activities of people, due to the fact of their inclusion in social groups, as well as psychological characteristics these groups themselves?
1. pedagogy;
2. defectology;
3. sociology;
4. social Psychology;
5. didactics.
Question 5. Name the scientist who proposed the term "social pedagogy":
1. Zero G.;
2. Boymer G.;
3. Natorp P.;
4. Miskes H.;
5. Diesterweg A.
Task 14.
Question 1. The subject of what science is the branch of knowledge about the upbringing of a person throughout the life path?
1. social psychology;
2. pedagogy;
3. didactics;
4. social pedagogy;
5. defectology.
Question 2. In which country in the 50-60s of the XX century. the theoretical development of the problems of social pedagogy became more active?
1. in the USA;
2. in Germany;
3. in England;
4. in France;
5. in Portugal.
Question 3. Name the process of forming a person's personality in certain social conditions, during which a person selectively introduces into his system of behavior those norms and patterns of behavior that are accepted in this society and social group:
1. socialization;
2. education;
3. adaptation;
4. education;
5. study.
Question 4. What types of victims of adverse conditions of socialization are the disabled, people with psychosomatic defects and disabilities?
1. potential;
2. latent;
3. real;
4. random;
5. actual.
Question 5. What is the tendency of a person to take responsibility for everything that happens to him?
1. externality;
2. adequacy;
3. conformism;
4. internality;
5. responsibility.
Task 15.
Question 1. Name the thinker who believed that education should be built in accordance with the natural course of development of human nature itself:
1. Dieterweig;
2. Beumer;
3. Pestalozzi;
4. Miskes;
5. Zero.
Question 2. What science considers the development of man as a process of free realization of his potentialities?
1. social psychology;
2. humanistic psychology;
3. anthropology;
4. philosophy;
5. sociology.
Question 3. The application of what principle makes it possible to describe socialization as a combination of spontaneous, partially directed, relatively socially controlled processes of human development?
1. additionality;
2. linearity;
3. adequacy;
4. need;
5. centralization.
Question 4. What is the number of the article of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948, which enshrines the human right to social security:
1. 19;
2. 20;
3. 22;
4. 24;
5. 26.
Question 5. What article of the Constitution of the Russian Federation guarantees every citizen social security by age?
1. 36;
2. 37;
3. 38;
4. 39;
5. 40.
Task 16.
Question 1. What function of social security is aimed at maintaining and restoring the social status of citizens who are the most socially weak group of the population?
1. economic;
2. political;
4. demographic;
5. pedagogical.
Question 2. What function of social security contributes to the easing of social tensions in society?
1. political;
2. economic;
3. social rehabilitation;
4. demographic;
5. pedagogical.
Question 3. In what year was the Law "On State Pensions in the Russian Federation" adopted?
1. 1989;
2. 1990;
3. 1991;
4. 1992;
5. 1993
Question 4. What year defined the legal regime of the social insurance fund of the Russian Federation?
1. 1990;
2. 1991;
3. 1992;
4. 1993;
5. 1994
Question 5. How many basic characteristics does the work experience have?
1. one;
2. two;
3. three;
4. four;
5. five.
Task 17.
Question 1. What is a lifetime monthly payment, which serves as the main source of livelihood for persons who have reached retirement age and have the necessary work experience?
1. labor pension for years of service;
2. old-age labor pension;
3. disability pension;
4. survivor's pension;
5. cash payment.
Question 2. What is the monthly payment assigned to persons with a persistent disorder of body functions for the period of establishing disability in amounts proportional to past earnings or in a fixed amount?
1. old-age labor pension;
2. labor pension for years of service;
3. survivor's pension;
4. monetary compensation;
5. labor disability pension.
Question 3. What is the weekly payment provided during the period established by law to persons recognized as unemployed?
1. unemployment benefit;
2. pension;
3. compensation;
4. subsidy;
5. sum insured.
Question 4. What is the time frame for the decision of the employment service to recognize a person as unemployed?
1. 1 day;
2. 2 days;
3. 3 days;
4. 11 days;
5. 6 days.
Question 5. What are social pensions, social benefits and social services?
1. benefits;
2. subsidies;
3. types of state social assistance;
4. compensation;
5. appropriations.
Task 18.
Question 1. At what age can men be recipients of social pensions?
1. from 50 years old;
2. from 55 years old;
3. from 60 years old;
4. from 65 years old;
5. from 70 years old.
Question 2. What are the main types of social benefits:
1. pensions;
2. one-time benefits;
3. compensation;
4. subsidies;
5. scholarships.
Question 3. In what year was the Law “On Social Protection of the Disabled” adopted?
1. 1995;
2. 1996;
3. 1997;
4. 1998;
5. 1999
Question 4
1. 1993;
2. 1994;
3. 1995;
4. 1996;
5. 1997
Question 5. In what year was the law of the Russian Federation "On Veterans" adopted?
1. 1990;
2. 1991;
3. 1992;
4. 1993;
5. 1994
Task 19.
Question 1. What are the key elements of the set of values that social work focuses on, which remain with minor changes throughout its history:
1. people's well-being;
2. social justice;
3. dignity of the individual;
4. first, second and third answers;
5. humanity.
Question 2. In what year was the National Association of Social Workers Code of Ethics adopted in the United States, which guides all social workers?
1. 1997;
2. 1998;
3. 1999;
4. 1996;
5. 1995
Question 3. Name one of the fundamental principles professional activity social worker:
1. the social worker must use himself consciously;
2. the social worker must be engaged in social practice;
3. respect human otherness;
4. seek personal professional growth;
5. engage in a holistic personality.
Question 4. What principle assumes that the client is able to make appropriate decisions about himself or other people?
1. self-government;
2. privacy;
3. self-determination;
4. integrity;
5. professionalism.
Question 5. What actions involve interfering with clients' wishes or freedom for their own benefit in order to limit the client's self-destructive actions?
1. decisive;
2. independent;
3. professional;
4. timely;
5. paternalistic.
Task 20.
Question 1. In what year did the German biologist E. Haeckel use the term "ecology"?
1. 1865;
2. 1866;
3. 1867;
4. 1868;
5. 1869
Question 2. Name the scientist who, for the first time at a high scientific level, raised an environmental problem in Russia:
1. Borodin;
2. Vernadsky;
3. Mendeleev;
4. Lomonosov;
5. Mechnikov.
Question 3. What is the share of the Russian population living in an unfavorable natural environment:
1. 65%;
2. 70%;
3. 75%;
4. 80%;
5. 85%.
Question 4: How many Americans who fought in Vietnam developed adverse personality changes?
1. 10%;
2. 25%;
3. 30%;
4. 45%;
5. 50%.
Question 5. Name the number of wars in five thousand years of human history:
1. 11 238;
2. 12 338;
3. 13 438;
4. 14 538;
5. 15 638.
Task 21.
Question 1. Since when did the philosophy of humanism appear in social work?
1. at the beginning of the 20th century;
2. at the end of the 19th century;
3. in the middle of the 19th century;
4. at the beginning of the twentieth century;
5. in the middle of the twentieth century.
Question 2. At what time does the philosophy of positivism in social work replace the model of humanism?
1. in the 70s of the twentieth century;
2. in the 60s of the twentieth century;
3. in the 50s of the twentieth century;
4. in the 1920s;
5. in the 30s of the twentieth century.
Question 3. What level of value orientations of social work is associated with the values of clients: abstract, group, operational and instrumental?
1. mesolevel;
2. micro level;
3. primary level;
4. secondary level;
5. traditional level.
Question 4. What is the basis of all work in the field of social protection and support?
1. justice;
2. equality;
3. the value of human life;
4. solidarity;
5. responsibility.
Question 5. Name the practical side of solidarity:
1. justice;
2. equality;
3. non-discrimination;
4. humanism;
5. social responsibility.
Task 22.
Question 1. What is frank self-disclosure of conscious feelings and personal attitudes while maintaining distance and lack of identification with the client?
1. empathy;
2. expertise;
3. authenticity;
4. attractiveness;
5. acceptance.
Question 2. What is the understanding of the measure of possible support to the client?
1. empathy;
2. expertise;
3. authenticity;
4. attractiveness;
5. acceptance.
Question 3. What is a conceptual and logical construct, a certain model in which one or another phenomenological cognitive series is interpreted?
1. structural scenario;
2. logical scenario;
3. interpretive scenario;
4. cognitive scenario;
5. conceptual scenario.
Question 4. Who is the author of the theoretical model of social work "Gestalt therapy"?
1. Rapoport L;
2. Parade G.;
3. Perlman H.;
4. Germen K.;
5. Perls F.
Question 5. What subject appears in the concepts of help in all mythological, religious, philosophical and ethical systems?
1. needy;
2. psychosomatic;
3. social;
4. helping;
5. patronizing.
Task 23.
Question 1. How does social work relate to the paradigm of science?
1. as a whole to a part;
2. as the basis of the whole;
3. as part of a whole;
4. as a property;
5. as a feature.
Question 2. What leads to the fragmentation of the conceptual consciousness of social work, to the limited technique of intervention and assistance?
1. linearity and determinism;
2. conditionality;
3. assignment;
4. functionality;
5. reductionism.
Question 3. What is in American social work: assessment, personality in a situation, relationship, process, intervention?
1. categories;
2. basic dominants;
3. principles;
4. methods;
5. structural elements.
Question 4. What are: radical social work, Marxist social work, interactional social work, traditional social work?
1. the peak of social work;
2. type of social work;
3. method of social work;
4. groups of social work theories;
5. methodology of social work;
Question 5. What concept expands the scientific understanding of the essence of objective reality?
1. the concept of structure;
2. the concept of an object;
3. the concept of the subject;
4. the concept of organization;
5. the concept of a system.
Task 24.
Question 1. What are the main sociological paradigms that dominate the process of creating deductive theories of social work?
1. interactionism;
2. behaviorism;
3. first, fourth, fifth answer options;
4. functionalism;
5. the theory of conflicts.
Question 2. What paradigm sees social life how is the process of interaction between individuals?
1. interactionist;
2. functional;
3. conflict;
4. radicalist;
5. interpretivist.
Question 3. Theoretical studies which school laid the foundation for systematic scientific knowledge in social work?
1. cognitive;
2. diagnostic;
3. humanistic;
4. psychodynamic;
5. role-playing.
Question 4. In what year did the scientists Rank, Taft and Robinson develop the concept of the functional method of individual work?
1. 1926;
2. 1927;
3. 1928;
4. 1929
5. 1930
Question 5. Name the scientist who proposed his own version of an individual approach to the client - problematic oriented model social work:
1. Bloom M.;
2. Levin K.;
3. Eberhard D.;
4. Pearlman H.;
5. Doel M.
Social work and socio-diagnostic methods
Social specialists in their work should use social diagnostic methods that meet such requirements as validity, reliability, unambiguity, accuracy.
Of the many diagnostic methods, the social worker chooses the most preferable for a particular situation.
The choice of method is influenced by various circumstances, including goals and objectives, the contingent of diagnosed patients, their nature.
Before understanding the actions of the client, the social worker identifies the reason for certain of his actions, which means identifying the motive for behavior. Most often, the motives of behavior are based on biological, material, social, spiritual needs, dissatisfaction with which gives rise to social problems, leads to personality deformation, mental illness and personal tragedies.
Social diagnostics, in addition to revealing real problems, also performs a prognostic function, as one of the types of assistance to the client.
To make a socially significant forecast, it is necessary to assess the existing resources and develop diagnostic technologies.
To carry out this work, specialists are needed who are able to both diagnose the situation and predict its further development.
Diagnostic methods include:
- a method of observation that helps to study the external manifestations of human behavior;
- the method of conversation makes it possible to obtain and correct information based on verbal communication.
Remark 1
Thus, a social worker engaged in diagnostics must be able to win over people, inspire their trust and achieve sincerity in their answers, and this requires certain knowledge and skills.
Knowledge relates to a very different area - this is general and social psychology, logic, rhetoric, ethics, etc.
In addition to methods of observation and conversation, a number of modern methods are also included in social diagnostics:
- probing and information survey of the local population is the collection of information about the state of home ownership and infrastructure, the size and composition of the population, its dynamics;
- socio-historical survey of the territory, its development and settlement, changes in the composition of the population, its occupations and traditions;
- information-targeted analysis of articles in the local press, letters and complaints from citizens in the media mass media, electronic means information;
- the method of social mapping is to create a social map, which shows the areas most often visited by citizens, contaminated areas of the territory, areas of social tension, etc.
A great help in the work of a social worker is provided by such well-known methods as:
- a questionnaire used to study and evaluate individual properties and manifestations of personality;
- the method of expert assessment, carried out by questioning and interviewing;
- the method of sociometry, the essence of which is the calculation of various personal and group indices, monitoring or constant tracking of information with the preparation of a forecast for a certain perspective;
- a biographical method based on the study of a person in the context of her personal history.
Testing is one of the methods of social work
Along with questionnaires and interviews, testing refers to survey methods of research.
Definition 1
Tests, as specialized methods of diagnostic examination, are standardized tasks. With the help of tests, you can get a qualitative and quantitative characteristic of a particular phenomenon, knowledge, skills, skills of the subject.
The term was introduced into scientific circulation in 1890 by the American psychologist J. Cattell. In order to determine the individual psycho-physiological characteristics of a person, he proposed 50 tests.
Another psychologist, the Frenchman A. Binet, applied the principles of testological research to the higher mental functions of a person. A series of his tests contained tasks for testing memory, attention, aesthetic and ethical qualities of a person, etc.
The German psychologist W. Stern in 1911 introduced the IQ into the testing method.
In order to study a person as an integral structure, psychological, sociological, cultural theories of personality appeared, which became the basis for constructing tests.
Most commonly used in social work personality tests which is a kind of test. The subject can answer special questions or complete assigned tasks.
It must be said that the proposed questions are different from those offered by questionnaires or interview questions. Test questions are indirect.
The main thing in testing is the question of how the proposed tasks and questions are significant for the individual.
Their disadvantage is related to the fact that if the subject is familiar with the test mechanism, then he can consciously influence its results.
Test processing occurs with the help of a "key" when the answers received are correlated with certain parameters.
The main part of the tests is developed in pathopsychology, and here the use of tests makes sense only when they are combined with the methods of clinical observation.
It must be said that the use of these tests under normal conditions, and not pathology, requires methodological adjustments.
Remark 2
Application of tests in social diagnostics goes as an auxiliary means of research and their data must necessarily be compared with data obtained using other methods. You can use only those tests that are verified or adapted by science, and their use requires professional knowledge and skills.
Surveys in social work
Knowledge of people's living conditions helps social workers solve their life problems, because they, as a rule, are determined not only by personal characteristics, but also by the characteristics of the social environment in which they find themselves.
The most popular in social work are such sociological methods like surveys and document analysis.
They are used to obtain primary data. To collect this primary information, questions are asked to a certain group of people.
Surveys provide not only factual information, they provide information about the opinions, assessments and preferences of those who are interviewed and ensure that the data obtained is systematic and accurate.
This is the most effective method obtaining universal information of an objective and subjective nature.
The advantage of this method is its mass character and representativeness, the possibility of its use in conducting operational sociological research.
The method is not universal and the quality of information is influenced by the personality of the respondent and the activities of the researcher himself.
Poll results can be negatively affected by an unsuccessfully chosen place and time, the presence of strangers, and an ill-conceived organization of the procedure itself.
Polls can be continuous and selective.
Continuous surveys cover the entire population, while selective surveys cover only part of it.
The procedure for conducting a survey divides them into individual and group, and in form - written and oral.
Most often, written surveys are called questionnaires, and oral surveys are called interviews.
The popularity of surveys is facilitated by the rapid receipt of information, but its intentional or involuntary distortion is one of their shortcomings.
Industry testing of social workers
The information and educational online publication "SONNET" offers social workers to be tested and receive documents confirming the results - the Test Certificate.
The advantage of SONNET tests lies in the deep and precise focus on Russian state standards and other documents relating to the qualification requirements for social workers. Tests meet all requirements professional standards to social service positions.
Why is testing necessary?
- for self-assessment professional level, compliance with the requirements of professional standards;
- to further determine areas for advanced training, self-education;
- to replenish the portfolio of professional achievements.
How to take part in testing?
- Apply (the application form is the same for all offered tests; the application is filled in electronic form using the link).
- Wait for the answer of the methodologist (if the answer is not received within 3 working days, check the SPAM folder or send the request again).
- Transfer the registration fee in the amount of 200 (two hundred) rubles.
- Send a scanned copy of the payment receipt to [email protected] website or in the comments to the payment, indicate the surname, initials of the person who plans to study.
- get tested. Access to the materials is opened individually during the working day after receipt of payment information. The link to the test comes in the response letter of the editor.
- Obtain a certificate (prepared and sent electronically to the address indicated in the application).
Test topics
Testing "Basic provisions of 442 fz dated December 28, 2013 "On the basics of social services for citizens in the Russian Federation"
The test contains 20 questions: 15 - tasks basic level and 5 - tasks increased complexity. The basic part is obligatory for execution, the increased complexity is optional. To successfully pass the test, it is enough to complete the first part without errors or score 17 points.
Testing "Organization and ensuring the accessibility of facilities and services for the disabled in social protection institutions and social service organizations"
The test contains 10 questions. The test is considered successfully passed if the student scored 8 points.
Testing "Fundamentals of Social Work"
The test contains 20 basic level questions. The test is considered successfully passed if the student scored at least 16 points.
Testing "Computer literacy and ICT competence of a social worker"
Testing "Methods and technologies of social work"
The test contains 15 basic level questions. The test is considered successfully passed if the student scored at least 13 points.
Ministry of Education of the Republic of Belarus
educational institution
"Vitebsk State University
them. P.M. Masherova"
CONTROL TASKS FOR THE COURSE
"PEDAGOGY"
"INTRODUCTION TO SOCIAL WORK"
"THORY OF SOCIAL WORK"
"TECHNOLOGY OF SOCIAL WORK"
"HISTORY OF DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN
SOCIAL WORK»
for the specialty "Social work"
Vitebsk 2006
UDC 364: 368.4
BBK 65.272 p. I 73
Printed by decision of the scientific and methodological council of the educational institution
Vitebsk State University P.M. Masherova"
The authors: Associate Professor of the Department of Social and Pedagogical Work of the Educational Establishment “VSU named after P.M. Masherova", candidate of pedagogical sciences I.A. Sharapova; Associate Professor of the Department of Social and Pedagogical Work of the Educational Establishment "Voronezh State University" P.M. Masherova", candidate of pedagogical sciences G. A. Kachan, Associate Professor of the Department of Social and Pedagogical Work of the Educational Establishment "Voronezh State University" P.M. Masherova", candidate of pedagogical sciences Yu.I.Venger, Lecturer of the Department of Social and Pedagogical Work EE "VSU them. P.M. Masherova" Matyushkova S.D.
Reviewer.
Scientific editor: Head of the Department of Social and Pedagogical Work
EE "VSU them. P.M. Masherova, Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences,
Professor A.P. Orlova
Control tasks for the courses "Pedagogy", "Introduction to social work", "Theory of social work", "Technologies of social work", "History of domestic and foreign social work"
/ Aut. Yu.I. Wenger, G.A. Kachan, I.A. Sharapova, S.D. Matyushkova - Vitebsk: Publishing house of UO "VSU named after V.I. P.M. Masherova, 2006. - p.
The proposed edition contains control tasks for the courses "Pedagogy". "Introduction to social work", "Theory of social work", "Technologies of social work", "History of domestic and foreign social work" (for the specialty "Social work"). Tests can be used to control the knowledge of students studying both full-time and part-time.
Designed for university students studying in the specialty "social work", as well as teachers of relevant faculties.
UDC 364: 368.4
BBK 65.272 p. I 73
Kachan G.A., 2005
EE "VSU them. P.M. Masherova", 2005
CONTENT
Introduction………………………………………………………..
Pedagogy
Introduction to social work
Social work theory
Social work technologies
History of domestic and foreign work
"THORY OF SOCIAL WORK"
Section 1. Theoretical and methodological
basics of social work
1. The theory of social work is in content
technical science
applied science
natural science
social and humanitarian
2. According to the scientific status, the theory of social work is
1) fundamental science
2) applied science
3) predominantly applied, but also develops theoretical problems
4) is not a science
3. How does a scientific theory of social work have
1) object and methods of research
2) object and subject, functions
3) Object and subject of research, categorical apparatus, patterns and principles, functions
4) subject, forms, means, functions.
4. A system of views and ideas on the use and explanation of phenomena and processes, social relations that arise under the influence of the activities of social services and bodies of social protection and assistance to the population. it
1) social pedagogy
2) pedagogy
3) sociology
4) social work theory
5. A system of views and ideas on the use and explanation of phenomena and processes, social relations arising under the influence of the activities of social services and bodies of social protection and assistance to the population. it
1) social work theory
2) philosophy
3) social gerontology
4) technologies of social work.
6. Patterns that determine the nature and direction of development social processes in society is
1) functions of the theory of social work
2) the subject of the theory of social work
3) the object of the theory of social work
4) principles of social work
7. The methodological principles of the theory of social work are:
1) the principle of determinism
2) the principle of the epistemological approach
3) the principle of personal approach
4) the principle of unity of consciousness and activity
5) answers 1-5 are correct
8. How scientific theory social work can be considered at the following levels
1) individual, group, community
2) metho-, macro-, meso-, micro levels
3) national, group, individual
4) there is no correct answer.
9. The task of this level of the theory of social work is the development of general theoretical foundations of social work, the identification of the basic principles for the formation of the theory of social work. It:
1) metolevel
2) macro level
3) micro level
4) mesolevel
10. At this level, social work acts as a theory of social and administrative work, where society and the state act as the main subject of assistance. It:
1) metolevel
2) macro level
3) micro level
4) mesolevel
11. As a theory, social work at this level is related to group processes, which are considered in the context of helping and mutual aid processes. It:
1) metolevel
2) macro level
3) micro level
4) mesolevel
12Functions of the theory of social work. Choose the correct answer
theoretical and methodological, applied, humanistic
rehabilitation, expert, evaluation
projective, modeling, humanistic
informational, protective, rehabilitation.
13. A large, stable social community, characterized by the unity of the living conditions of people in the most significant respects. it