Journal Summary Report



Journal Article Review Report

Date:

Student Name:

Research Paper Topic:

|Full Article Citation (in APA Format): |

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|General Review |

|Purpose (Main Justification for Study) |

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|Methods (Who, How Many, Where, How Observed, Selection Procedures, Manipulations (if applicable); Scales) |

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|Results (can you site specific numbers?) |

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|Conclusion (what is the meaning of the findings, why should we care?) |

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|Personal Evaluation and Assessment of Article |

|Strengths (e.g., design strengths, sampling, internal & external validity issues, test reliability) |

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|Weakness (e.g., "threats to validity", confounds, biases, sample representations, operational definitions) |

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|What information will contribute to my research/paper topic? (What will I be able to use to justify my argument, what has helped me to |

|understand my topic better?) |

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|What do the researchers believe is the most important part(s) of this study? (Look carefully in the concluding paragraphs and sometimes in |

|the abstract!) |

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