Research Design

1. How efficient are the methods, procedures, treatments, etc..

1.1. Does this therapy REALLY work for what the research is talking about?

2. Is the research set up in a straightforward manner?

2.1. Are finding the answers to the research easy?

3. What does the research provide about the subjects?

3.1. Is the population represented by the sample?

3.2. How were the subjects selected?

3.3. Were there a reasonable amount of subjects used for the study?

4. Was their equipment used?

4.1. Good working order?

4.2. Calibrated?

4.3. Proper relationship with the task?

5. What do the conclusions say about the research?

5.1. Did they line up with the results?

5.1.1. ex.) Are the conclusions that the researchers made based on the results that the research provided?

5.2. Unbiased?

6. Overall plan you choose to combine the different components of the study in a valid way which addresses the research problem.

6.1. Things to consider when reading over and critiquing articles.

7. What do we want to know about our article?

7.1. A description about the research.

7.2. ex.) at what age do children begin to produce the /r/ phoneme?

8. What materials are used?

8.1. Were these materials valid to the research? How reliable are these materials?

8.2. What is the relationship of materials and the tasks that were performed.

9. Can the research be replicated?!

9.1. Is the research able to be done again based on what was provided?

10. Researchers!

10.1. Are the researchers qualified to perform this research.

10.2. How trained are the researchers to use the materials and equipment that were used in the research.