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Quantitative Article Review Instructions

Choose 1 quantitative article from your Topical Reference List and compose a 2-page review of it. Your review must include 2 sections: (1) a summary of the article, and (2) a critical analysis of the article.

Your summary must include:

• The purpose of the study;
• A description of participants/sample;
• The research design (experimental, quasi-experimental, correlational, regression, etc.);
• The method of data collection (survey, test, questionnaire, etc.);
• A statistical analysis (t-test, analysis of variance (ANOVA) analysis of covariance (ANCOVA), chi square, Pearson product moment correlation, Spearman rho, etc.); and
• The results.

Your analysis must include:

• Opportunities for further research not already stated in the article,
• Threats to validity or rival hypotheses not already discussed,
• Other original insight or criticism, and
• Implications of the findings.

See your textbook if you need more help evaluating your article.

NOTE: If the article you selected does not identify how the data was statistically analyzed (e.g., t-test, ANOVA, ANCOVA etc.), it is likely that this article is either not a quantitative study or not an actual research report, but a summary of a study, in which case you must select another article.