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Critique Number:
Read the research study and answer the following questions
1.
What is the title of the study?
2.
Who is the author(s) of the study?
3.
What year was the study done/published?
4.
What is the field of interest?
5.
What is the topic (theoretical background) of interest?
6.
What are the hypotheses of the study?
7.
What is/are the Independent/Predictor Variable(s) of the study?
8.
What is/are the Dependent/Criterion Variable(s) of the study?
9.
Describe the subjects of the study.
10.
What apparatus or instrumentation (including surveys, questionnaires, etc.) was
used in the study?
11.
What measures were taken?
12.
What is the design of the study?
13.
What were the statistical analyses performed in the study?
14.
Did the statistics support the hypothesis? (i.e., were they significant)
15.
What conclusions and implications did the authors make regarding their study?
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Do the hypotheses make sense?
Are there other hypotheses about the theory that might be equally plausible?
Could there be better ways to test the hypotheses? (better variables, better design, better
statistics)
Could conclusions different from the authors be made about the same results?
Could implications different from the authors be made about the same results?