Reading checklist

1) What is the author's goal?
2) What are the hypotheses?
3) If you had designed the experiment, how would YOU have done it?

4a) Is your method better than theirs?
4b) Does the authors method actually test the hypotheses?
4c) What are the independent, dependent, and control variables?
5) Based on what the authors did, what results do YOU expect?

6) Did the author get unexpected results?
7a) How would you interpret the results?
7b) What implications would YOU draw from these results?

8a) Does YOUR interpretation or the authors' interpretation best represent the data?
8b) Do you or the author draw the most sensible implications and conclusions?

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me at jccutti@mail.ilstu.edu.