Article - The Achievement Gap and the Discipline Gap: Two Sides of the Same Coin? By Anne Gregory, Russell J. Skiba, and Pedro A. Noguera.
Delving into Journal Articles
Objective: To help students better understand the process of research and research methods
Directions: You will be assigned a scholarly article. After reading the article, you're requied to answer all the questions below completely.
Based upon your reading of the article, you should address the following questions in a 1 to a 1 and ½ page (max.) typed paper: (please refer to APA Style guidelines)
1. What is the researchquestion?
2. What theory did these authorsuse?
3. What were the authors' hypotheses?
4. Was the research deductive orinductive?
5. How were the variablesoperationalized?
6. What kind of relationship exists between the variables? (correlation, cause and effect, or spurious. Define these definitions using the text and provide examples from yourarticle.)
7. What method did the researchers use? (Survey, field study, experiment, existingsources, or triangulation, or another method?Explain.)
8. Who composed the sample? Was it representative?