AI in Social Work and Child Welfare Quiz

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1. What does the Allegheny Family Screening Tool produce?
   • A risk score to help screeners decide whether to investigate a referral
   • A final decision to remove a child
   • An automated court ruling
   • A list of foster homes
2. What is 'proxy bias' in child-welfare risk models?
   • A network connection error
   • When a feature stands in for something else, like prior contact correlating with poverty rather than real risk
   • A type of encryption
   • Bias introduced by the family being screened
3. Why might poor and Black families receive inflated risk scores in these systems?
   • The models ignore them entirely
   • They never contact agencies
   • They are over-represented in the government datasets the models learn from
   • The models only use income data
4. Which model did the cited Allegheny Family Screening Tool methodology describe for its Version 2 risk score?
   • A convolutional image classifier
   • A recurrent speech recognizer
   • A rule-based grammar only
   • Logistic regression
5. What documentation-related workflow did a 2025 participatory-design study explore for social services?
   • A prototype GenAI assistant supporting documentation and case analysis
   • Automated court rulings without social workers
   • Replacing all case files with biometric records
   • Automatically removing children from homes
6. How does Allegheny County describe the AFST’s role in screening referrals?
   • As an automatic final decision that replaces staff
   • As additional information to support screeners’ decision-making
   • As a diagnosis of abuse or neglect
   • As a guarantee that harm will occur
7. What time horizon does Allegheny County say the AFST uses when estimating a child's likelihood of harm?
   • Within two weeks
   • Over the next ten years
   • Within two years
   • Only during the current hotline call
8. Which responses can AFST-informed staff consider after reviewing a referral?
   • Automatically removing a child with no staff review
   • Issuing a court judgment without a hearing
   • Replacing the family with an automated case plan
   • Opening an investigation, offering services or referrals, or providing less intrusive support