EDUC 750

Q

UALITATIVE

A

RTICLE

A

NALYSIS

A

SSIGNMENT

I

NSTRUCTIONS

Choose

1

qualitative

article

and

compose a 3

–

page review

(not including the reference page in

the count)

.

Your review

must

include

2

sections

(

using

Level I headings in

current

APA)

: (1) a

summary

of the article, and (2) a

critical

analysis

of the

article.

All articles must be of studies

conducted and published in the United States or Canada within the past 5 years.

Your

summary

must include:

·

The purpose of the study

;

·

A d

escription of participants/

sample

;

·

The research design/data analysis

(

narrative, grounded theory, case study,

phenomenology, ethnography, etc.

);

·

The m

ethod of data collection

(

questionnaire, document analysis, observation, open

–

ended

or

structured

interview

, etc.

);

·

Analysis

(Inductive/deductive approach, point of focus, summaries, memoing, indexing,

coding, grouping, themes, order of analysis, type of analysis (content, narrative,

discourse, framework, grounded theory),

and

·

The r

esults

.

Your

analysis

must include:

·

Opportunit

ies for further research not already stated in the article

,

·

Threats to validity or undocumented bias

(credibility, transferability, dependability,

confirmability)

on the part of the researcher(s)

,

·

Other original insight or criticism

, and

·

Implications of the findings

.

See your textbook if you need more help evaluating your article.

R

emembe

r to include a

reference page.

All citations and references must be in

current

APA

format

.

EDUC 750

QUALITATIVE ARTICLE ANALYSIS ASSIGNMENT INSTRUCTIONS

Choose 1 qualitative article and compose a 3-page review (not including the reference page in

the count). Your review must include 2 sections (using Level I headings in current APA): (1) a

summary of the article, and (2) a critical analysis of the article. All articles must be of studies

conducted and published in the United States or Canada within the past 5 years.

Your summary must include:

· The purpose of the study;

· A description of participants/sample;

· The research design/data analysis (narrative, grounded theory, case study,

phenomenology, ethnography, etc.);

· The method of data collection (questionnaire, document analysis, observation, open-

ended or structured interview, etc.);

· Analysis (Inductive/deductive approach, point of focus, summaries, memoing, indexing,

coding, grouping, themes, order of analysis, type of analysis (content, narrative,

discourse, framework, grounded theory), and

· The results.

Your analysis must include:

· Opportunities for further research not already stated in the article,

· Threats to validity or undocumented bias (credibility, transferability, dependability,

confirmability) on the part of the researcher(s),

· Other original insight or criticism, and

· Implications of the findings.

See your textbook if you need more help evaluating your article. Remember to include a

reference page. All citations and references must be in current APA format.