General Instructions:   This is a voluntary, anonymous survey.  Although we do not want to know who you are, we do want to compare your answers now with your answers later.  Therefore, we need a number that only you will recognize, but that when you use it – we will be able to match your initial answers with your subsequent answers. Therefore, we want you to create your own identification number.    Personal Identification Number Instructions: You will do this by filling in the answers to the following questions in the spaces provided below. Please print your answers clearly.
  
 1.  In the first space, fill in the month that you were born.  2.  In the next two spaces fill in the number of tattoos you have today  (1/20/99).  3.  In the next two spaces fill in the number of body piercings you have today (1/20/99).  4.  In the next space, if you were a science major as an undergraduate (e.g., social science, math, etc) circle S, if you were not a science major as an undergraduate (e.g. social work, humanities, etc.) circle NS  5.  In the last space, circle the sex (F or M) and then the last name of your favorite undergraduate professor.
   
   
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____  ____ ____  _________     ________     __________________________________  Month Born # of pierces   # of piercings   HS teacher’s  sex  & last name 
 Instructions:  We want to know how confident you are, in your ability to perform specific social work tasks.  After you consider each task, please rate your confidence in your ability to perform that task successfully, by circling the number from 0 to 100 that best describes your level of confidence.  What we mean here by successfully, is that you would be able to perform the specific task  in a manner that a social work supervisor would consider excellent.  The phrases above the numbers [ 0 = Can not do at all; 50 = Moderately certain can do; and  100 = Certain can do ] are only guides.  You can use these numbers or any of the numbers in between to describe your level of confidence. We want to know how confident you are that you could successfully perform these tasks today.  
 
 
How confident are you that you can. . . . . 
Cannot  do at all 
 
  
 
Moderately certain can do 
 
  
 
     Certain      can do 
a. do effective electronic database searching of the scholarly literature?                   0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100  b.  use various technological advances effectively in carrying out research (e.g., the Internet)?              0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100  c. review a particular area of social science theory and research, and write a balanced and comprehensive literature review?                 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100  d. formulate a clear research question or testable hypothesis?          0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100  e. choose a research design that will answer a set of research questions and/or test a set of hypotheses about some aspect of practice?          0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100  f. design and implement the best sampling strategy possible for your study of some aspect of practice?              0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100  g. design and implement the best measurement approach possible for your study of some aspect of practice?             0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100  h. design and implement the best data analysis strategy possible for your study of some aspect of practice?             0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100  i.  effectively present your study and it’s implications?           0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 
  
Thanks for your help!