PSY 3211 Article Critique Self-Rating Rubric You will get 10 points for filling out and submitting this along with your article critique

Title page (4 points total)

Your Rating:

Header Format

a) Is your Running head title in ALL CAPS?
1 point

b) Is everything in your paper in 12 point Times New Roman font?—
1 points

c) Do you have a page number that is flush right (also in 12 point Times New Roman font)?
—-0.5 points

Title / Name / Institution

d) Do all title words with four letters or more start with a capital letter
?— 0.5 points

e) Are your name and institution correct? Are your title, name, and institution elements centered and in 12 point Times New Roman font? See regulations for spacing and bolding of the title.
—1 points

Total for Title Page (add up your ratings for a-e):

Summary of the Article (10 points total)

Your Rating:

General Format and Header

f) Is your paper title present and identical to your title on the title page?
—1 points

g) Does your summary have min 1 and half page and max 3 pages?
—1 points

Summary of the Article

h) Does your summary note the type of design (experimental vs. correlational)?
—2 points

i) Does your summary note the independent variables?
—1 points

j) Does your summary note dependent variables?
—1 points

k) Does your summary describe the methods for the article, including participants, measurement, methodology, and procedure?
—2 points

l) Does your summary describe the findings?
–2 points

Total for Summary (add up your ratings for f-l):

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Critique of the Article (20 points total)

Does your critique identify at least four of the needed elements (see a list on the assignment instructions, including confounding variables, appropriate sample, valid/reliable dv, interpreting findings, ethics, follow-up study, weak vs strong results, implications not mentioned in the article, theory problems, why the methods used are better or worse than alternatives
—Each element is worth 5 points, and must include sufficient detail and explanation.

Total for Critique (add up your ratings for each of the 4 critiques)

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Brief Summary (4 points total)

m) Do you summarize the article in one to two paragraphs?
—1 points

n) Does your brief summary highlight the main article points (hypotheses, method, and subjects)?
—2 points

o) Does your brief summary highlight the conclusions drawn by authors?
—1 points

Total for Brief Summary (add up your ratings for m-o):

In-text Citations and References Page (4 points total)

Your Rating:

In-text Citation

p) Are in-text citations (including direct quotations) in APA format?
—2 points

References

q) Are your references in APA format?
—2 points

Total for Brief Summary (add up your ratings for p & q):

Grammar and Writing Quality (8 points total)

Check your grammar and writing for the entire paper. Make sure to proof read, and cite & paraphrase properly. Avoid personal pronouns like “us”, “we”, “you”, and “I”. For a scientific paper like this, go with more objective words like “people”, “participants”, “users”, or “viewers” etc. 

If your paper lacks originality and contains too much overlap with the paper you are summarizing (i.e. you do not paraphrase appropriately or cite your sources properly), you will lose some or all of the points from writing quality, depending on the extent of the overlap with the paper. For example, if sentences contain only one or two words changed from a sentence in the original paper, you will lose points from writing quality.

Your Rating for Writing Quality: