Hi Michele and others who may also be interested, I shared the following paper with Mark, http://facpub.stjohns.edu/~roigm/James%20statistics.doc . It is based on a project that a student did a couple of years ago that I think it is applicable for some of the issues that you raise.
I hope it is useful. Miguel ----- Original Message ----- From: [email protected] To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 1:15:21 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [tips] Questions to ask when critiquing journal articles Hi Everyone, This message is meant to piggy-back on the message Marc Center posted about articles that might cover different analysis techniques. I am also very interested in this. I currently teach both an online introductory and intermediate statistics class, and in both classes, I involve students in group discussion. I'm thinking of trying to set up some group discussion assignments that would involve critiquing journal articles that include analysis techniques students are learning about. For example, students in my intermediate course will learn about the one-way between-subjects ANOVA early in the semester. I thought it would be beneficial to them to see an example of a research study that actually used a one-way ANOVA. I found a very short article that I feel would be interesting and appropriate, but I'm struggling to come up with some good reflection questions I can pose to get the students talking about the article and critiquing it. Ideally, I want questions that will lend themselves to many possible responses so that students do indeed engage in "discussion." I was thinking about asking them to imagine that they were in the position of reviewing the article BEFORE it was published, and to discuss issues such as sampling, methods used to gather and analyze data, possible confounding variables that may have come into play, possible violations in assumptions, and the practical importance of the findings. The article is fairly light in terms of discussing possible shortcomings of the research that was conducted, so I'm hoping this in itself will lead to discussion and critique. However, I'm wondering if anyone on this list has tried something similar--either online or in the classroom--and might have a good list of questions to share that get students to think very critically about research they are reading about. Thank you in advance for any help you can provide! Sincerely, Michelle Everson -- Michelle Everson, Ph.D. Quantitative Methods in Education Department of Educational Psychology University of Minnesota [email protected] http://www.tc.umn.edu/~delma001/CATALST/ --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([email protected]) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([email protected])
