Tennessee State University
Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology
Methods of Speech and Hearing Services in Public Schools
SPTH 5250 98
Evidence-Based Practice Project
Article Critique
Submitted to:
Mary Dale Fitzgerald, Ph.D.
Submitted by:
Ma. Elizabeth Grover
Literate Language Intervention With High-Need Prekindergarten Children: A Randomized Trial
Beth M. Phillips, Galiya Tabulda, Smitri A. Ingrole, Pam Webb Burris,
T.Kayla Sedgwick, and Shiyi Chen
Research critique is done to assist professionals in their field using the most effective way of delivering services to the benefit individuals under their care. It can also be used as a mechanism to provide feedback for improvement. The purpose of this critique
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Although the assessment may have sound validity the author’s failure to mention the title and expertise of the two researchers who develop the assessment may be in question.
This study presented the treatment process in an organized manner. It clearly stated who the participants were, schedule of treatments, and service delivery of the intervention. It described which tools and data analysis procedures that were used. It also mentioned the number of interventionists, their age range, gender, and educational background; which are important things to take note. Although all of the assessors hold a bachelor’s or master’s degree not all of them had teaching certifications. It would be helpful if the authors provided their years of teaching experience as it would give more validity to the assessments given.
One of the strengths of this study was also the research design that was used which was a randomized trial. There are different levels of external research designs. Randomized Clincial Trials and Systematic Reviews are considered level 1 ,which is considered to most
DiClemente (2013) stated, “Although no evaluation is perfect, evaluation research can have a high degree of rigor” (DiClemente, Salazar, & Crosby, 2013, pp. 298). The result of a high degree of rigor can lead to the utilization by program planners and policy experts which would in turn could impact public health policy and promotion practice (DiClemente et al., 2013). This is obtained by a step by step, all equally important, process in what is known as the “Nine Step Stairway to Effective Evaluation”.
Catherine Cangany’s article Fashioning Moccasins: Detroit, the Manufacturing Frontier, and the Empire of Consumption, 1701-1835, cover the main theme 18th century Detroit. Cangany explores how the moccasin, a fashionable and practical shoe, transformed from a shoe exclusively worn by native groups to a highly fashionable shoe that French and British colonies started to integrate into their own culture to taking the moccasin to manufacturing and becoming Europeanized. Though out many decades, the process of creating moccasins became more ‘industrial’ which made them a symbol of native culture to East Coast fashion. Cangany’s article examines how the production of moccasins became so popular and fashionable among European colonists that eventually moccasins no longer were a native creation.
If they decide that there is ample material on the specific topic at hand, the team moves on to the next phase of the Iowa model. If sufficient amounts of research do not exist on the subject, a research study may need to be carried out (Brown, 2014). This stage also consists of the research team evaluating the rigor of the research that they have collected (Doody & Doody, 2011). It is important to have an analysis procedure in place for all members of the research team to follow when evaluating research studies to ensure consistency in the appraisal of the quality and precision of each research study found (Doody & Doody, 2011). According to Doody & Doody (2011), “effectiveness, appropriateness, and feasibility” (p. 663) are three of the grading standards that researchers can use in evaluating research studies.
This systematic review conducted by Takeda A, Taylor SJC, Taylor RS, Khan F, Krum H, Underwood M, (2012) sourced twenty-five trials, and the overall number of people of the collective trials included was 5,942. Interventions were classified and assessed using the following headings.-
Goal 2- Garner experience and practice in treatment planning and assessments through performing psychosocial and diagnostic assessments; consider methods of interventions appropriate to client presentation; develop treatment plans with supervisor for assigned clients.
Ryan, F., Couglan, M. & Cronin, P. (2007). Step-by-step guide to critiquing research. Part 2: qualitative research. British Journal of Nursing, 16(12), 738-744.
For the purpose of this descriptive study, a pre-experimental design was utilized. A limitation of the pre-experimental design is that it fails to include a control group. A single group was studied but no comparison between an equivalent non-treatment group was made.
The effectiveness of these evidence based practice interventions can all be measured through trial and error. The nurse should document each evaluation outcome for analyzing to improve or continue with these interventions.
Furthermore, the popular press article offered three scholar views that did not agree with the research articles findings. These views offered a limited explanation of their disagreement and offered questionable support. For example Hurley (2012) cites Engle as identifying methodological weaknesses with the research and finding results that did not suppor Jaeggi and colleagues (2008) findings. However, the author failed to identity the specific methodological weakness and instead stated many of these have been addressed in successive articles. Overall the article presents a fair evaluation of the two sides of the
Becker, Margraf, Rinck, and Roth wrote one of the articles that I found, the emotional Stroop effect in anxiety disorders: General emotionality or disorder specificity? The main idea of the research study is to understand cognitive attention predispositions by demonstrating Stroop task with anxiety participants. Stroop task were repeatedly uses on patients that have anxiety or other disorders such as panic, obsessive-compulsive, social phobia, and posttraumatic stress disorders. Their study is an expansion of other studies that involve Stroop tasks and anxiety patients. This study is very important because it will explain more about why the reaction time is slower or different with specific incongruent threatening words for anxiety or other disorder that patients may have.
The critique will focus on issues like, title, theoretical framework, research design, methodology, data collection, methods, data analysis, rigour, findings, ethics, generalisability and flexibility.
The articles found during the search four were chosen for use in this report. The articles chosen were critically appraised to establish the validity and relevancy of the reports. The articles were selected based on the outline given in Richardson-Tench, Taylor, Kermode & Roberts (2014, pg 53-54) which aims to assess the question and the topic, the abstract, the methodology, the findings or conclusions and an overall evaluation. It was essential that all articles chosen were peer reviewed. This is a process maintains high standards in research and involves the review of articles by subject matter expert’s (Richardson-Tench, Taylor, Kermode & Roberts 2014, pg 53). The authors of the papers were also assessed for credibility. All articles were found to be of authority in the field, authors included nurses with Phd and fellowships, and associations to institutions in high regard. Each abstract of each article was evaluated Richardson-Tench, Taylor, Kermode & Roberts (2014, pg 67) state the abstract should be a clear and brief overview of the report and should include information on the “problems, methods, design, results, conclusions and implications” Richardson-Tench, Taylor, Kermode & Roberts (2014, pg 67). All chosen reports provide an acceptable abstract, for example Mathers
O'Brien, D. (2009). Randomized controlled trials (RCTs). In R. Mullner (Ed.), Encyclopedia of health services research. (pp. 1017-1021). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc. doi: http://dx.doi.org.proxy1.ncu.edu/10.4135/9781412971942
In testing the hypothesis, the authors carried out a parallel-design, single-blind, controlled, randomized trial. The sample comprised
The form used for this critique contains many useful components for the purpose of completing a multidimensional assessment. The form is well organized and easy to follow. Compared to much longer assessment forms, this one is comprehensive without feeling overwhelming. Some minor modifications could make this form even more useful to practitioners serving diverse populations. In particular, translations in other languages is of paramount