Article critique questions
Article critique questions
- List the study aim(s).
- Study Design
- Name the study design:
- Briefly describe the study design (including the intervention, if any) (maximum of 1 or 2 sentences):
- Strengths (including how threats to internal validity were or were not addressed):
- Weaknesses (including threats to internal validity that were not dealt with and how they may affect findings):
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Article critique questions
- Sample
- What is the target population?
- What is the study population?
- Was study pop. appropriate? Why or why not?
- What is the sample size?
- Eligibility criteria:
- What were the inclusion criteria, if any?
- What were the exclusion criteria, if any?
- What sampling frame, if any, was used?
- What were the strengths and limitations of the sampling frame?
- Was a probability or non-probability sampling plan used?
- What is the name of the sampling plan that was used (e.g., quota sampling).
- Strengths (how threats to external validity were or were not addressed):
- Weaknesses: (threats to external validity that were not addressed and how this might affect generalizability of the findings to the target population)
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Article critique questions
- Measures
- List the independent variable(s) in this study.
- Give the operational definition for one of the independent variables.
- List the dependent variable(s) in this study.
- Give the operational definition for one of the dependent variables.
- List the other variables in this study.
- Based on the study aims, what are the strengths of measurement in this study? This may include the choice of measures and/or how the measures were operationalized.
- Based on the study aims, what are the weaknesses of measurement in this study? This may include the choice of measures and/or how the measures were operationalized.
- Data collection methods
- How were the data collected?
- Based on the study aims, what are the strengths of how the data were collected?
- Based on the study aims, what are the weaknesses of how the data were collected?