No research questions were stated, but the authors indicated the purpose of the study was….”)

Northcentral University MFT-5106
Quantitative Article Critique
Assignment Guidelines
1. Please keep the 12 questions below in your document preceding your answer (i.e., don’t delete the question after you answer it or prepare the paper in a narrative format without the questions embedded).
2. You don’t need to cite the authors in each of your responses. It’s clear what article you are referring to.
3. However, any time you include a short quote from the article in your response (which should be done sparingly), please provide the page number from the article.
4. Ensure you appropriately paraphrase the material from the article in your response to each question (use no more than 3-4 of the authors’ words in a row when summarizing information from the article).
5. All discussions of the study that follow should be in past tense as the study has already happened (Note the use of was and were above rather than is and are in the sample text in #1 below).
6. If you didn’t cite any other sources in your critique, besides the article you critiqued, you can delete the word References at the bottom of this page as you won’t need a reference list.
Critiqued by:
Date:
Source reference (provide the complete citation of the article here, using correct APA format, which you are critiquing):
1. Introduce the study by providing a brief summary of the focus and the research question(s) or purpose for the study. (“The focus of this study was… There were ___ research questions: …. No research questions were stated, but the authors indicated the purpose of the study was….”)
2. Write a bullet point outline (paraphrased) of the main themes or points the authors discussed in their literature review. (e.g., “Emotional intimacy has been shown to influence relationship satisfaction; Self-disclosure is important for couple’s emotional intimacy…”)
3. What purpose does a review of the literature serve, in general, for a quantitative research study (Remember this question is not about this study, it’s about quantitative research studies in general)?
4. Given the general purpose of a literature review for quantitative research you described above in question 3, did the authors do a good job with this? Why or why not?
5. Describe the methods used in this study. Include which quantitative approach was used (e.g., cross-sectional survey, longitudinal survey, quasi-experimental, experimental), what sampling strategy was used, who the participants were [number, age, gender, race/ethnicity], and how the author(s) operationalized their variables of interest (In other words, what measures did they use to assess which variables [“The researchers used the Beck Depression Inventory-II to assess depression…”).
6. What kinds of research questions are the methods employed in this study typically used to answer? This question refers to research studies in general (not this study specifically); why might a researcher choose this design/approach (the approach you identified in #5)?
7. What are the implications of the sampling method on the external validity of the study, meaning does the way they selected their sample and the participants they ended up with compromise to whom the results of the study will apply?
8. Are there any threats to internal validity that the researchers did a good job of addressing or that they did not address well, meaning are there alternate explanations that fit the results better than the ones the author(s) provided? Provide support for your response.
9. What was the goal of the statistical analysis in this study? Was it to describe frequency and averages, to explore relationships among variables or to test for differences between groups? Provide support for your response.
10. Considering the methods used in this study, including the sampling procedures, operationalization of the variables of interest, and the statistical tests used, did the researchers draw reasonable conclusions based on the results, meaning have their conclusions gone beyond the data they have in hand?
11. Are there ethical concerns apparent in this study? Provide support for your answering using AAMFT ethical codes and the Belmont study.
12. What are the real-world implications of the study findings? Are the results meaningful and important for clinical practice? To whom might these results apply?
References
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Northcentral University MFT-5106
Qualitative Article Critique
Assignment Guidelines
1. Please keep the 11 questions below in your document preceding your answer (i.e., don’t delete the question after you answer it or prepare the paper in a narrative format without the questions embedded).
2. You don’t need to cite the authors in each of your responses, it’s clear what article you are referring to.
3. However, any time you include a short quote from the article in your response (which should be done sparingly), please do provide the page number from the article.
4. Ensure you appropriately paraphrase the material from the article in your response to each question (use no more than 3-4 of the authors’ words in a row when summarizing information from the article).
5. All discussions of the study that follow should be in past tense as the study has already happened (Note the use of was and were above rather than is and are in the sample text in #1 below).
6. If you didn’t cite any other sources in your critique, besides the article you critiqued, you can delete the word References at the bottom of this page as you won’t need a reference list.
Critiqued by:
Date:
Source reference (provide the complete citation of the article here, using correct APA format, which you are critiquing):
1. Introduce the study by providing a brief summary of the focus and the research question(s) or purpose for the study. (“The focus of this study was… There were ___ research questions: …. No research questions were stated, but the authors indicated the purpose of the study was….”)
2. Did the researchers use a theory or conceptual framework in the introduction of the study to guide the study (Note: Many qualitative studies do not. They begin the article with a brief literature review, use some form of qualitative framework to structure the study, and then let a theory emerge from the data. In such instances, it is appropriate to indicate that this is the case by simply responding no). Provide support for your response.
3. If the authors did describe a theory or framework, what are some of the core ideas or assumptions of that theory or framework? (If they did not, simply reply NA to this question).
4. Describe the methods used in this study. Include which qualitative approach was used (e.g., grounded theory, phenomenology, ethnography, case study, focus groups), what sampling strategy was used, describe the number and demographic characteristics of the participants, and identify the procedures used to collect the data.
5. What kinds of research questions are the methods employed in this study typically used to answer? In other words, in research studies in general (not this study specifically), why might a researcher choose this design/approach (the approach you identified in #4)?
6. Summarize how the authors analyzed their data.
7. Identify the primary results of this study.
8. Describe what (if any) strategies the authors used to establish the trustworthiness of their results (in qualitative studies they tend not to use the terms reliability and validity, so look for words like rigor, saturation, credibility, transparency, member checks, triangulation, and so forth).
9. Did the authors provide any explanation of how researcher bias might affect their interpretations of their results, including what strategies they employed to manage this? Such comments will usually be in the Data Analysis section or occasionally in the Discussion section.
10. Are there ethical concerns apparent in this study? Provide support for your answering using AAMFT ethical codes and the Belmont study.
11. What are the real world implications of the study findings? Are the results meaningful and important for clinical practice? Remember that the goal of qualitative studies is typically not to generalize to a larger population. Having said that, however, it is still appropriate to identify to what persons or groups might these results apply.
References

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