Select two empirical articles (one quantitative & one qualitative) from one or more professional journals available through MU’s Libraries, and different from the articles included in the Topic Selection assignment part 1.
For each article critique, students will provide a piece of writing, which can be written in 1st person (cover page, 2-3 pages of text, & reference list) addressing the following information:
Problem or theory – summarize your response to the following questions:
What specifically is the problem being examined in the study?
Why is it important and how is it a problem?
If a theory is being tested, what is it and why is it relevant?
What is the hypothesis of the study?
Literature review – summarize the literature or other relevant studies in the areas that are covered by the author
Data collection – summarize your response to the following questions:
What kind of sample was used?
How was the data collected? Was the process explained clearly enough where you could replicate the study (with the author’s permission)?
Did the data collection methods seem appropriate to the hypothesis?
Does this data collection plan help to advance the knowledge in the field based on previous studies and their data collection methods?