Wake Technical Community College Effects of Playing Video Games Research

Article Critique: Rubric (20 Points)

Instructions: Read and critique the methodology of a scholarly journal article.

• Read and critique the Raudenbush et al (2009) (4 points).
• Written in APA style (4 points)
  • Title Page
  • Header
  • Reference page
  • Introduction
  • Methods
  • Results
  • Discussion and your Critique of the article
  • 12-point font, double spaced
  • At least 4-5 pages, excludes title and reference pages.
    • You may also provide an Abstract page summarizing the article (not included in page total)
• Summarize the major sections of the article (i.e. introduction section, methods, etc.) (6 Points)
• Critique-Identify and critique the methodology used by the experimenters. (6 points
  • Specifically, what research method was used?
  • What threat to validity are there?
  • Study limitations?
  • How could this study be improved? Be specific and detailed using key words.