Article Review process
Summarize the purpose and conclusions of the research, identify the study design, and comment on its methodology
• What were the authors’ research question(s) and hypotheses? Were the methods and statistics selected adequate to answer the question(s)? How do you know that they’re adequate? (10%)
• What choices did the authors make to improve validity and reliability? What types of reliability were assessed/reported and were they adequate? What were their trade-offs between internal and external validity? (15%)
• What study design was used? What are strengths and weaknesses of that design? Did the study design utilize “controls”? If so, what kind (randomization, matched samples, control/comparison groups, statistical controls, others) and were they adequate? If no controls were used, what are the implications of this choice? (15%)
• What did the authors measure and how? Be specific. (10%)
• Do the authors’ conclusions make sense, given what they were able to actually test with their methodology? Are there alternative explanations? (10%)
• What questions did the study raise that you would like to see answered by future research? (10%)
• Do you have suggestions that would improve their methodology? (Hint: No research study is perfect. There is always something that could be improved.) (10%)
• 10% of your grade on this assignment will be the use of proper APA-formatting, and an additional 5% will be proper
spelling and grammar (yes, this absolutely counts). This is to emphasize that following formatting and submission instructions and thoroughly proofreading are integral unless you want your manuscripts immediately rejected from scholarly journals.
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