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Critiquing research papers: methods, methodologies, theoretical perspectives and epistemologies.
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Critiquing research papers: methods, methodologies, theoretical perspectives and epistemologies. Zorkina and Nalbone (2003) did a study to see if the confidence levels of college students according to what instructions they were given had an effect on their performance on a cognitive ability test. Zorkina and Nalbone (2003) tested out the hypothesis by placing college students into 2 groups. Each group was given different instructions in order to induce different levels of confidence in them, high level and low level. The participants in both groups were given the same cognitive ability test and the scores were compared for both groups. Peer evaluations were also done on participants' confidence and academic performance for external validity. It was found, that induced level of confidence did have an effect on college students and a bivariate correlation indicated that the results were significant. r(30) = 0.54, p = 0.002. As academic confidence increased, academic performance also increased. The...
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