description of why you choose the article and about the expierment. Identify your proposed article for your upcoming paper (due week 6), describing it briefly. This is to help ensure you have found the right kind of article. Review the attached directions and rubric for the Article Review assignment.

The Article Chosen : Are Second-born Children More Empathetic than Only Children? A Study on Empathy Development of Chinese Preschoolers Guoying Qian, Yuan Du, Chunyu Liu, Ruiqi Han, and Li Luo College of Preschool Education, Capital Normal University ABSTRACT Research Findings: Few studies have examined second-born preschool chi

What was the major research question that was being addressed?

• Did the authors test a particular theory or hypothesis? Describe.
• Who were the participants?
• How was the research conducted? Describe the method and measurement tools.
• What were the results?
• Were the authors' hypotheses supported?
• Did the authors mention any limitations to the study?
• Did the authors describe any future research suggestions?

• How effectively was the study conducted? (For example: how representative was the sample? What other variables did they consider that might influence their outcome? Did they control for any of these?)
• How reliable were the measures? (Did they used an established instrument, or create their own?) Did they discuss reliability and validity of the instruments used?
• Whatextraneous confounding variables may have influenced the findings?
• Did the authors' conclusions make sense based on the data?
• Are there any limitations to the study that the authors failed to mention?
• How generalizable are the findings?
• What future research studies could build on the current findings?
• Write a concluding paragraph summarizing your thoughts about the article (stay in 3rd person).