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What is the purpose of the research?
What are the research questions/hypotheses?
What study design was used?
What sampling methodology was used?
What are the main, overall results?
What limitations are stated?
What are the main overall conclusions or recommendations the researchers state?
What are the strengths of the article’s introduction and research questions? Do they fill an
important research gap? Are they relevant to the field?
What are the strengths of the article’s study design, methodology, or sampling strategy?
Are novel techniques used? Is a strong study design employed?
What are the strengths of the article’s results and discussion section? Are the results
presented in a clear manner? Are graphs or charts utilized? Do the researchers make
strong recommendations? Are implications for the field strong?
What are the weaknesses in the introduction? Are the research questions not explicitly
stated?
Could a better study design have been utilized? Are the authors lacking their description
of the study design, sampling methodology, and data analysis? Could other statistical
techniques be employed?
Are results unclear? Are tables unorganized? Do the researchers not highlight important
results?
What major limitations are discussed that you consider weaknesses of the article? What
limitations in the discussion section are missing or not discussed?
Are recommendations or conclusions lacking? Are there other implications that aren’t
discussed? Did researchers “over reach” regarding their results and conclusions?
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