demonstrate advanced knowledge and understanding of in-depth relationships in human development, higher-order thinking skills, familiarity and engagement with educational research, and familiarity with and practice of basic scholarly and technical writing skills.
For this research work, you will read the assigned research article from a peer-reviewed journal (the article has been provided, please download). You will analyze the assigned article, once you have read the article for this assignment, you will provide a review, addressing the following:
• Problem: What is the problem that the researchers have identified? (What “hole” in previous research are they trying to fill?)
• Purpose: What is the purpose of the article? (Why are they doing this research? Hint: This will often be stated in the article as, “The purpose of this study was to…”)
• Background/previous research: What background information is provided? In other words, what has previous research found?
• Research performed: What did the researcher(s) do for this particular study?
o Who were the subjects?
o What were their demographics (age, ethnicity, gender, etc.)?
o What did the researcher(s) make the subjects do, and what did the researcher(s) measure?
• Findings/conclusions: What were the findings/conclusions of this research?
• Course connections: How does the information in this article connect to the 2111 course materials that we’ve studied so far?