Article to Critique: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1005160326267

Article to Critique: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1005160326267
Remember that you are not writing a summary of your article – you are expected to analyze and critique the research study, using APA style. THERE SHOULD BE NO SUMMARY OF THE ARTICLE. Point out the areas of growth (and potential strength) in the article without needing to provide an in-depth summary.Your paper should be 3 to 4 pages long, not including your reference page. You do NOT need to do a cover page or abstract for this paper. Please have your page set up, in-text citations and references in APA format. Do NOT include the questions in the paper but do make sure you answer all of them. Break the paper into its component parts: abstract, introduction, methods, results, and discussion. Go in-depth with the critique and why you feel that the issues that you are identifying are important to the validity of the study.
• Title:
-Does it make sense?
-Is it clear?
-Does it connect to the article?
• Abstract:
-Is the abstract connected to the article?
-Is it clear and concise?
-Is it accurate?
-What population was studied?
-What ways were they recruited for the study?
• Introduction:
– Review of literature
-Is there a clear indication of why the authors chose to study this?
– Rationale for the study
-Do the authors back up their study with good rationale?
– Purpose of the study
-Do the authors have some sort of hypothesis?
-What is the hypothesis and the method used to test it?
– Identify the independent and dependent variables in the study.
• Method:
-Is this article qualitative or quantitative?
-Could you replicate this study by reading the methodology?
-Is it clear on what they did?
-Does it make sense on how they collected the data?
-Could anything have impacted the collection of the data?
-What kind of instruments, scales, or tools were used to collect data?
-If it’s a survey, is it a validated survey?
-Identify the kind of study it is – an experiment, a case study, longitudinal, correlational, or observational.
-If this is a quantitative study, identify the reliability and validity of the data.
• Findings/Results:
-Look at the results, and what they are coming up with
-Is it valid?
-What are the strengths and areas of improvement?
• References:
-Are the references up to date and relevant to the paper topic?
-What are their credentials?
• Other overall questions:
-Does each section support the findings and conclusions of the others?
-How might the author be clearer in their writing?
-Do you feel that there are concerns about the methods used or the population studied that were not addressed in the conclusions of the paper?
-What could the author have done to improve their paper for the reader?