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Course and Section

Title (you may propose your own title)

Paragraph 1: Summary of the articles but DO NOT copy the abstract.

Paragraph 2: Problem statement and purpose

Evaluate the problem statement and purpose based on the following questions:
1. What is the problem and/or purpose of the study?
2. Does the problem statement or purpose express a relationship between two or
more variables? If so, what is/are the relationship(s)? Are they testable?
3. Does the problem statement and/or purpose specify the nature of the sample
being studied? What is it?
4. What significance of the problem, if any, has the investigator identified?

Paragraph 3: Review of literature

Evaluate the problem statement and purpose based on the following questions:
1. What concepts are included in the review? Of particular importance, note those
concepts that are the independent and dependent variables and how they are
conceptually define.
2. Does the literature review make the relationships among the variables explicit?
What are the relationships?
3. What gaps or conflicts in knowledge of the problem are identified?
4. Are the references cited mostly primary or secondary sources? Give an
example of each.

Paragraph 4: Research Questions

Evaluate the problem statement and purpose based on the following questions:
1. What research questions are stated in the study?
2. If research questions are stated, are they used to guide an exploratory study?
3. What are the independent and dependent variables in the research questions?
4. If hypothesis are stated, is the form of the statement statistical or research?
Are the they testable?

Paragraph 5: Sample
Evaluate the problem statement and purpose based on the following questions:
1. How was the sample selected?
2. What type of sampling method is used? Is it appropriate for the design?
3. To what type of sample may the findings be generalized? What are the
limitations in generalizability?

Paragraph 6: Research design

Evaluate the problem statement and purpose based on the following questions:
1. What type of design is used?
2. Does the design seem to flow from the proposed research problem, literature
review, and research questions?
3. What type(s) of data-collection method(s) is/are used in the study?
4. Are the data-collection procedures similar for all types of samples?

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Paragraph 7: Instrumentation
Evaluate the problem statement and purpose based on the following questions:
1. Is a rationale given why a particular instrument or method was selected? If so,
what is it? What provision is made for maintaining the accuracy of the
instrument and its use, if any?
2. Are the data that were generated appropriate to the problem being studied?
What type of reliability is reported for each instrument?
3. What level of reliability is reported? Is it acceptable?
4. What type of validity is reported for the instrument?
5. Does the validity of the instrument adequate? Why?

Paragraph 8: Analysis of data

Evaluate the problem statement and purpose based on the following questions:
1. What level of measurement is used to measure each of the major variables?
You may refer to the figures/table to explain it in detail.
2. What statistics are reported? Were these statistics appropriate to the intent of
the research problem?
3. Does the study report level of significance set for the study? If so, what is it?
4. If tables or figures are used, do they meet the following standards?

Paragraph 9: conclusions, summary, recommendations

Evaluate the problem statement and purpose based on the following questions:
1. Are the results interpreted in the context of the problem/purpose and literature
reviewed?
2. What relevance to the chromatographic science does the researchers identify,
if any?
3. Are the generalizations within the scope of the findings or beyond the findings?
4. What recommendations for future research are stated or implied?
5. Are there other studies with similar findings?
6. Is direct application of the research findings feasible in terms of time, effort,
money and legal/ethical risks?
7. Would it be possible to replicate this study using other parameter(s)?

References: (APA format)

Notes:
1. Use these general guidelines to critic the given papers. Be specific with your critic. You
are allowed to counter the results and their discussions provide you present the necessary
references.
2. Prepare your critique paper with appropriate titles and subheadings.
3. Use Arial-11 font, 1.15 spacing and 1-inch margin.
4. No more than five pages in length but make sure you cover all the sections mentioned in
the guidlelines.
5. Paginate your submitted work.
6. Submit it not later than NOV 14 (Wed) to my pigeon hole.