A. Once youve found your favorite article from database, read critically by asking these 5 critical questions 1.

Why am I reading this? 2. What are the authors trying to do in writing this? 3. What are the authors saying that is relevant to what I want to find out? 4. How convincing is what the authors are saying? 5. Conclusion? What use can I make of this? B. You can begin your analysis by filling up this table Reference details Problem statement/ Research questions e.g. How school building condition influence school attendance and academic achievement among primary students in NYC? Literature review Research methodology and design Findings Conclusion

Authors name? Year?? Which publication?? (name of journal, volume, issues) e.g. Durn-Narucki, V. (2008). School building condition, school attendance, and academic achievement in New York City public schools: A mediation model. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 28(3), 278286.

According to ABC, building conditions affects students achievement (Dina, 2011) but at a very minimum impact (Zainal, 2013).

Qualitative? Quantitative? Experimental or, case study, or observation, or survey??? e.g. A site inspection has been conducted from Jan-July 2011 at three buildings, where building A and B were single storey classrooms and building C was a double storey classroom

e.g. Percentage of students with high score in test ABC Mean score of students achievement in building A, B and C

e.g. The results shows that there was no significant difference in academic achievement scores for male (M =2.85, SD = 1.093) and female students (M =2.97, SD = 1.152; t (148) = -0.52, p =.60, two-tailed). Hence, building condition does influence school attendance but not academic achievement,

C. Now you can write your critique by summarizing what you have put inside the above table, dont forget to give your own comment about the article. Best of luck to all of you (,)