Instructions:  Look through the method sections of 2 of your articles and critique them to the best of your ability. 

The file provided below are 2 links to the articles that would be used for this assignment.

Answer the following questions for each of the articles:

Questions    
1. What are the IV(s)? What are the DV(s)? Can you easily determine the IVs and DVs from the methods section or did you have to go back and look at the end of the introduction section/hypotheses to figure out which were the IVs and which were the DVs and which were just control variables? If it was still not clear even after comparing the purpose of the study or hypotheses to the variables listed in the methods section, explain.

2. Read through their participants section. How many participants did they have? Is this enough? What type of people would be appropriate for their study (e.g., it doesn’t matter, college students, working adults, etc.)? How were the participants selected (e.g., random sample, convenience sample)? Do you think their participants represent the population they are supposed to represent (in terms of demographics, or geographically, etc.)?

3. Read through the measures section. How many measures do they have? Do they seem to match with/adequately capture the IV(s) and DV(s)? Do they provide reliability evidence and/or other evidence regarding the quality or appropriateness of their measures?

4. What method (design) did they use for this study and is it appropriate for their research questions? Did they adequately describe their procedure/provide enough detail (or too much detail) so that you could replicate the study on your own if you had to and so that you understood what they did? What was confusing about understanding their procedures used?