HLTH 432 Purdue University Measurement in Health Education Discussion

I don’t know how to handle this Health & Medical question and need guidance.

I’m going to attach the 4 articles that you can choose from to do the review

answer all questions below based on ONE article of YOUR CHOICE

NO PLAGIARISM!

make sure you write long answers and well detailed

Purpose: The learning objectives for this assignment are:

1) to understand how program evaluations are presented in the field; and

2) to apply what you have learned in this course to critique a published peer-review journal

Task: You will choose one of the peer-reviewed journal articles uploaded in Blackboard. You must choose one of the articles already selected. These articles present results of a program evaluation in the broader health promotion field. After reading the full article, you will critique the article, answering the following questions in essay format (succinct paragraphs in logical order):

Introduction (20 points)

1. Does the literature review provide adequate context, background, and direction?

a. Does it support the need for the program evaluation?

b. If not, what seems to be missing?

2. What is the stated purpose of the program evaluation?

3. What are the hypotheses and/or objectives?

a. Is there a connection between the literature review and the research questions, hypotheses, and objectives?

4. How does the program evaluation intend to contribute to knowledge about the field of study?

Evaluation Design (30 points)

5. Is the program evaluation descriptive, causal-comparative, or correlational? Longitudinal? Cross-sectional? Qualitative? Quantitative? Explain the design of the evaluation.

6. How well is this design suited to answer the evaluation objectives/aims/purpose? Explain.

7. What model/theory was used? Was the model used appropriately? Explain.

a. If there is no theory presented, what theory would you recommend using, and why?

8. Is it a formative or summative evaluation? Explain.

Sampling (10 points)

9. Describe the characteristics of the population studied.

10. Identify sampling procedures (e.g., simple random sampling), and explain why it was selected.

Measures (20 points)

11. What instruments were used?

a. How were they developed?

b. What did they measure?

12. Were the instruments valid, reliable, and appropriate?

13. What other type of measures would you have used, if any?

Data Analysis Procedures (25 points)

14. What kind of data analysis was conducted?

a. What statistical analysis was used? Explain why this was/was not this appropriate?

15. What were the findings?

16. Do you think the conclusions are valid and reliable? Explain.

17. Describe the information presented in the tables and figures.

18. Was the information presented in the figures and tables clear and was it discussed in the text? Explain.

Findings (25 points)

19. What were the program evaluation’s findings?

20. Were they discussed and described clearly and accurately?

21. Were conclusions well grounded in the findings? Explain.

22. Are any other interpretations possible?

23. What further research was recommended?

a. What might you recommend?

b. What additional questions and hypotheses are suggested by the program evaluation’s results?

Overall (10 points)

24. Do you consider this a “good” program evaluation? Explain.

Criteria for Success: Students will be successful in this assignment if they answer and explain the questions that are outlined above. There are multiple variations in the length of a write-up, given variation in the length of the journal articles. Use previous examples from class to glean insight on what a high-quality review may look like.