What is the title of the article? Who is (are) the author(s) of the article? What is the name of the professional journal the article was published in? What was the date of publication?
1. Statement of the Problem
What is the research problem? What is the author investigating?
2. Literature Review
What reference does the author make to previous research on this topic? Briefly discuss the previous research findings that are mentioned in the article.
3. Variables
What are the major variables in the study? What are the specific issues being investigated?
4. Hypothesis/Hypotheses
What are the authors’ hypotheses?
5. Research Design:
Describe how the actual scientific research was conducted.
1) Sample: Who are the specific individuals included in the study? How many individuals were included in the study? What were the sampling techniques?
2) Research Method: What method(s) was used for collecting the data?
3) Implementation and Conclusion of Research
When and where was the data collected? Who collected the data?
If applicable, what type of statistical analysis was used? How was the data analyzed? (you may not understand all of the information in the section on statistical analysis, therefore, you may have some quoting in this section).
6. Conclusions
What conclusions were drawn from this study? Were the hypotheses supported? If the hypotheses are not supported is there an explanation for this?
7. Criticisms
Does the study appear to be thoroughly planned? How could the study be improved? You may mention the criticisms that the author/researcher discusses BUT you will also want to think about other ways in which you think the study could be improved).