a. Evaluate the two articles on the following characteristics. For each, also include what you would do to improve that characteristic of the study.
• Importance of the research question
• Quality of the review of literature
• Significance of the study; contribution to the literature
• What research design was employed? Defend
• What threats to validity were posed in this study? Defend
• Quality of research methods including:
• Participants
• Measures
• Procedures
• Appropriateness of data analysis
• Presentation of results
• Interpretation of the results
• Conclusions and implications of the study
b. Taken together, what contribution do these two articles make to the literature in the field? What would you propose to be the next step in the research in this area?
please write all the answers as a bullet points format.
