{"id":1183,"date":"2020-04-13T18:06:11","date_gmt":"2020-04-13T18:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/?p=1183"},"modified":"2020-04-13T18:06:16","modified_gmt":"2020-04-13T18:06:16","slug":"12-steps-to-understanding-a-quantitative-research-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/13\/12-steps-to-understanding-a-quantitative-research-article\/","title":{"rendered":"12 Steps to Understanding a Quantitative Research Article"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

While first reading the article, keep the following 12 steps in mind. Then, re-read the article and write one to two sentences for each step. On completion, you should have a strong sense about what the research involves and how you can apply it to other research in the field. You can use a concept map to visualize these associations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. CITATION.<\/strong> Record a complete reference citation in APA Style.<\/li>
  2. PURPOSE AND GENERAL RATIONALE.<\/strong> In broad terms, describe the purpose of the study, and how the author(s) made a case for its general importance.<\/li>
  3. FIT AND SPECIFIC RATIONALE<\/strong>. Explain how the topic of the study fits into the existing research literature, and how that provenance is used to make a specific case for the investigation.<\/li>
  4. PARTICIPANTS.<\/strong> Describe who was studied (give number, demographics, and characteristics) and how they were selected.<\/li>
  5. CONTEXT.<\/strong> Describe important characteristics about the location where the study took place.<\/li>
  6. STEPS IN SEQUENCE.<\/strong> In the order performed, describe the main procedural steps of the study. Describe or diagram in a flowchart, showing the order and any important relationships among the steps.<\/li>
  7. DATA. <\/strong>Describe what constituted the data (e.g., test scores, questionnaire responses, kinematics), how it was collected, and what was the role of the investigator(s) in that process.<\/li>
  8. ANALYSIS.<\/strong> Explain the form of data analysis used, and what specific questions it was designed to answer. Describe what statistical operations and computer programs were employed.<\/li>
  9. RESULTS.<\/strong> Describe what the author(s) identified as the primary results (products or findings) produced by their data analysis.<\/li>
  10. CONCLUSIONS.<\/strong> Explain what the author(s) asserted about how their results in Step 9 responded to the purpose(s) established in Step 2, and how the events and experiences of the entire study contributed to that conclusion.<\/li>
  11. CAUTIONS.<\/strong> Explain whether the author(s) raised any cautions about the study itself or about interpreting the results. Add here any of your own reservations.<\/li>
  12. DISCUSSION.<\/strong> Describe what interesting facts or ideas you learned from reading the report. Include here anything that was of value, including: results, research designs and methods, references, instruments, history, useful arguments, or personal inspiration. <\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n
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    While first reading the article, keep the following 12 steps in mind. Then, re-read the article and write one to two sentences for each step. On completion, you should have a strong sense about what the research involves and how you can apply it to other research in the field. You can use a concept […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research-paper-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1184,"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183\/revisions\/1184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}