Need 2 worksheets filled out please
Qualitative Article Critique
| Assignment Guidelines 1. Please keep the 10 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):
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….”)
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). Provide support for your response.
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).
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.
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)?
Summarize how the authors analyzed their data.
Identify the primary results of this study.
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).
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.
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.
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