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Article Critique
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For this Assignment, you will critically evaluate a scholarly article related to mediation.
Use the following article that is available in full text through the Walden Library databases for your critical evaluation assignment:
The Role of Academic Self-Efficacy as a Mediator Variable between Perceived Academic Climate and AcademicPerformance
Author(s):
Abd-Elmotaleb, Moustafa; Saha, Sudhir K.
Source:
Journal of Education and Learning, v2 n3 p117-129 2013. 13 pp.
Wk 3 Mediation
Write a 2- to 3-page critique of the research you found in the Walden Library that includes responses to the following prompts:
- Why did the authors use mediation in their multiple regression model?
- Do you think mediation is the most appropriate choice? Why or why not?
- Did the authors display the results in a figure or table?
- Does the results table stand alone? In other words, are you able to interpret the study from it? Why or why not?
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Introduction
Write a one paragraph summary of the article including why the research was done, what they found, and implications for social change.
Critique of Article/Research Study
In paragraph form, write a 2-3 page critique of the article you were assigned to read for the assignment. In this section you should consider the items asked in the directions for the assignment but do not copy and paste the questions into your paper and answer them one after another. You do not need to cite the article you are critiquing but you do need to cite any materials that you use in critiquing the article from other sources. If you do cite other resources you will need to add an APA formatted reference list on the last page of the paper.
Make sure that you are not giving non-human things human characteristics in your paper. This means things like “this study concluded”. A study cannot conclude something but you can say things like “these authors concluded”. In addition, when you talk about research that has been done in the past or published materials you need to talk about them in the past tense.
Conclusion
In your conclusion write a paragraph about what your overall thoughts about the article were and if you found the article to be useful as well as why or why not.
