Assignment:
QUANTITATIVE ARTICLE ANALYSIS INSTRUCTIONS
Choose 1 quantitative article and compose a 3 page review (not including the reference page in the count). Your review must include 2 sections (using Level 1 headings in APA): (1) a summary of the article and (2) a critical analysis of the article.
Your summarymust 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 analysismust 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 textbookif you need more help evaluating your article. Remember to include a reference page. All citations and references must be in current APA format.
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 mustselect another article.