Learning styles and blended learning

Introduction

• Identify the main themes of the paper and the main argument that the paper is making.
• What are they trying to achieve in their study?
• Provide a brief summary of the article

Main critique

• Consider what justification the author/s provides for their argument. Has the journal been peer reviewed and how well can we trust what they propose or have concluded?
• What do their findings mean for the real world?
• Identify any other journal articles that look at the same area of education/learning. What do these journals propose about the same topic? Do they agree or if not, what do they say differently?
• Make judgements on the journal
• What is the author/s trying to achieve and how well have they achieved it within their study?
• Analyse
• Evaluate (what is good and what is bad about the study – maybe look at how it was carried out. Was the sample of participants small or too specific? etc)
• synthesise (bring studies/themes together and make connections)