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Critical Reading Strategies: Overview of Research Process. Week 3. Critical Thinking. A rational examination of ideas, inferences, principles, conclusions Uses criteria for critiquing Clarifies Considers content appropriateness Questions own thinking Uses skepticism. Critical Reading.
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Critical Reading Strategies: Overview of Research Process Week 3
Critical Thinking • A rational examination of ideas, inferences, principles, conclusions • Uses criteria for critiquing • Clarifies • Considers content appropriateness • Questions own thinking • Uses skepticism
Critical Reading • Active, intellectual process where the reader uses interpretation and objective assessment of written material • Identify concepts • Clarify concepts • Question assumptions and rationale • Determine supporting evidence
Four Levels of Critical Reading • Preliminary understanding: skimming • Title • Abstract • Identify main theme
Critical Reading Levels (cont) • Comprehensive understanding: • Variables and concepts • Definitions • Relationships • Terminology • Main idea or theme • Restate in own words
Critical Reading Levels (cont) • Analysis understanding: • Understand parts • Begin to critique • Summarize in own words each part • Synthesis understanding: • Put together • Explain relationships • Critique
Critiquing • A process of objectively and critically evaluate content for scientific merit and application to practice, theory, and education. • Uses criteria: research process • Find strengths as well as weaknesses
Abstract • Brief (50-250 words) • Comprehensive (succinct) • Research purpose • Research questions and/or hypotheses • Methodology • Results • Implications for practice or future research
Research Problem or Purpose • Researcher presents a picture of area researched • Abstract • Introduction • Aims • Conceptual framework
Purpose • Why study was done is defined • Introduction • End of Literature Review • End of Conceptual Framework
Literature Review and Framework • Presents main concepts investigated • Review of Literature • Literature Review • Theoretical Framework • Related Literature • Background • Conceptual Framework
Hypothesis, Problem or Question • Quantitative Research • Problems, hypotheses, questions • Qualitative Research • Questions and purposes • Found: • Under separate headings • Introduction • Background • Results or Findings
Design • Blueprint of study • How purpose and problem were studied • Differs by qualitative or quantitative • Found • Procedures • Methods
Sample • Who are the subjects and how were they selected? • Type • Size • Found: • Methods • Methodology • Subjects • Sample
Instruments: Measurement tools • Validity • Measurement instrument measures what it is supposed to measure • Reliability • Measurement instrument is consistent in measures.
Procedures and Data Collection • How data or information collected • How measures or instruments used • Found • Procedures • Data collection
Data Analysis and Results • Procedures for analyzing data • Statistical tests • Descriptive/inferential tests results • Procedures to analyze themes, concepts, observational data • Found • Results • Findings • Method
Discussion of Findings • Ties parts together for a whole • New findings • Unexpected findings • Found • Discussion
Implications, Limitations, and Recommendations • Based on findings • Suggest applications for practice and education • Self critique • Found • Conclusion and recommendation • Discussion • Implications
References • Resources used in research or article • Primary • Secondary • Support for material presented