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Case Study: A 3-4 page summary of an empirical journal article is required. The article you are to use for this assignment is Supplementary Reading #2, which is titled "The Long and Winding Road to Postsecondary
Education." This article is posted in Canvas?Modules.
See course schedule for the due date for this assignment.
Your paper should include a short summary of the study (introduction, hypotheses, method, results,
discussion), as well as an evaluation of the study's method and/or conclusions. Be sure to use the guiding questions listed below to assist you in writing your critique paper. You should also use the writing checklist (Posted in Canvas?Modules) to review your work before submitting. Additionally, review the grading rubric for this assignment as well as the sample that is posted in Canvas. These tools will help you to identify the most important points of the article to include in your paper.
When submitting your assignment, it is your responsibility to check that your completed assignment
submission goes through by the due date listed in the course schedule and to notify me via email the same day if the submission does not go through or if your submission appears blank. If you email me the day after the due date, your assignment will be considered late, and because late work is not accepted, you will receive 0 points. If a blank document is submitted as your submission, you will receive 0 points with no opportunity to resubmit.
Discussion - Discuss the researcher's conclusions and tie them to another research in the field.
Given the results of this study, what might be the next step for researchers interested in this topic?
Evaluation - Evaluate the study. What were (at least two) strengths to the researcher's method or
conclusions? What were at least two limitations?
Do not forget to include a reference page.
Guiding Questions for Research Article
Introduction
1. According to the author(s), why is the topic important to study? What justification do the authors give for investigating the topic?
2. What is the general purpose (aim) of the study?
3. What specific research question(s) is/are being addressed by the study? What hypotheses are the authors testing (If applicable)?Method
4. Who participated in the study (age, ethnicity, gender)? How were they recruited?

5. How were each of the constructs/variables assessed? Results
6. What were the results for each of the questions or hypotheses? Discussion
7. What general conclusions do the researchers draw from their results?
8. How are the findings explained?
9. What suggestions do the researchers make for future research? Evaluation
10. What strengths are there to the measures or method? What limitations are there?