Urgent, urg

Purpose:  Summarize and appraise an article for bias and validity in a collaborative environment.

Assessment:  The DBs are worth 35 points and are graded according to the rubric embedded below.

Instructions: Carefully read, summarize, and appraise your group's assigned article.  The discussion board for this week should cover the following concepts in order to have a complete draft by the end of the week. Apply the concepts discussed in the lecture and the readings.  As you provide input to your peers, be sure to state a rationale for your claims. 

1. Identify and discuss the dependent variable(s) and the instrument(s) used to measure them.

2. Identify and discuss how the data for the dependent variable(s) were collected.

3. Identify and discuss the intervention and procedures for delivering it.

4. Identify and discuss the key results for the study, including any p-values, reported.

5. Identify and discuss the conclusions the researchers drew.

6. Appraise and debate the quality of the data collection methods and determine whether the conclusions of the study were supported by the statistical results.  Consider the following questions:

· Were the measurement instruments reliable and valid?  Why or why not? 

· Was treatment fidelity for the intervention ensured?  Why or why not?

· Were the conclusions of the study were supported by the statistical results, as indicated by the variable values and the p-values if reported?