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Journal Article Summary & Critique

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Summary:

The summary should include all of the relevant information about the article such as: type of research (qualitative, quantitative, meta-analysis, experimental, correlational, historical, case study or literature review); the theoretical framework, the hypothesis; the methodology for data analysis including the sample population and instruments used; data collection procedures, dependent and independent variables; results or findings, and finally the discussion and implications. This is quite similar to the information that should be included in the abstract, but do not copy the abstract verbatim. Read the article and summarize the important information. Do not rewrite the whole article either. This should be a succinct summary of a peer reviewed research article in a scholarly journal, not something from the popular press such as a newspaper or magazine article.

Critique:

Describe the strengths and weaknesses of this study. For example, was a random sample selected? Or, were the subjects (participants) in the study selected by some other method such as voluntary participation in a survey that may have been prone to a self-select bias? Was the sample of adequate size? What was the level of significance (P- value)?

Do you see any flaws in this study? If so, what were they? How could they be remedied if the study were replicated? Is this study generalizable? If so, to what population can it be generalized? If not, why? What are the limitations for generalizability?

Try to do this assignment using a MAXIMUM of two pages.