When reviewing a research paper, you should address each of the following issues:
- 1. What is the research question? What is the problem in the real world?
- 2. Who cares about the question, and why is it important?
- 3. What else has been done in the literature?
- 4. How will the authors address the issue?
- 5. Do the authors provide a theory as a basis for their approach to studying the issue?
- 6. How will they operationalize the variables in the study?
- 7. Are the variable definitions (both conceptual and operational) clear?
- 8. Does the methodology test the hypothesis as it is stated?
- 9. What are the results?
- 10. What do the results mean?
- 11. Do the results follow logically from the analysis?
- 12. Who cares about the results and why are they important?
- 13. What does this contribute to the literature?
- 14. How do these results help practitioners?
- 15. What is the next step in the research program? (What questions does this research suggest for future research)?
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