Evaluating a research report by gay mills and airasian

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What were the results and conclusions? What are the implications of the research? Basic formats to collect information for quantitative and qualitative research. Was the questionnaire pretested? Are pilot study procedures and results described? Are directions to questionnaire respondents clear?

Does each item in the questionnaire relate to one of the objectives of the study? Does each questionnaire item deal with a single concept? When necessary, is a point of reference given for questionnaire scales? Objective 2. Are there sufficient alternatives for each questionnaire item?

Does the cover letter explain the purpose and importance of the study and give the potential respondent a good reason to co-operate?

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If appropriate, is confidentiality or anonymity assured in the cover letter? Are follow-up activities to increase returns described? If the response rate was low, was any attempt made to determine any major differences between respondents and non-respondents? Are data analyzed in groups or clusters rather than a series of many single variable analyses?

Is the rationale for variable selection described? Are conclusions and recommendations based on values of correlation coefficients corrected for attenuation or restriction in range? Do the conclusions avoid suggesting causal relationships between variables?

Is the criterion variable well defined? Was the resulting prediction equation validated with at least one other group? Are critical extraneous variables identified? Were any control procedures applied to equate the groups on extraneous variables? Are causal relationships that were identified discussed with due caution?

Are plausible alternative hypotheses discussed? Is a rationale given for the design selected? Are sources of invalidity associated with the design identified and discussed? Is the method of group formation described?