Evaluate Peer Reviewed Empirical Journal Articles Learning Objectives: 1. Veri

Evaluate Peer Reviewed Empirical Journal Articles
Learning Objectives:
1. Verify that the articles that you have found are peer-reviewed empirical journal
articles.
2. Read the peer reviewed empirical journal articles that you have found and identify key
information.
3. Demonstrate APA formatting in using reference citations as APA Level 2 Headers.
Instructions: The major sections of a peer-reviewed journal article are the Introduction,
Method, Results, and Discussion. Reread five of your articles. Write the APA formatted
reference citation for each peer reviewed empirical article. Use this formatted reference citation
as an APA LEVEL 2 header for the responses to each question below. Answer all 12 questions
for each of your five articles. List your itemized responses to the questions underneath the
correct journal citation header.
1. Who are the authors of the study? (Write out the authors’ full names).
2. When was the study published?
3. When was the study conducted?
4. What kind of study was conducted? Or How was the study conducted? [Method]
5. Where was the study conducted?
6. Why was the study conducted? [~Introduction]
7. What is the study about?
a. What is the research question? What are the researcher’s hypotheses?
8. Who participated in the study and was included in the study sample? [Method]
a. What is the sample size (n) for the study?
b. In what stage(s) of development were the study sample?
9. What are the variables in the study? [Method]
a. How were the variables measured?
10. What are the results of the study? [Results]
a. What statistical analyses did the authors use?
b. Which results were significant?
c. Which results were not significant?
11. What did the researchers say the results meant? [Discussion]
12. How does the study described in the article help you understand your Group’s research
question?