Read the literature on Collaborative Leadership and Financial Sustainability in Local Government, method, and results in sections of the article to determine its validity:

a. What category of study is it?

b. If it is an experiment, what steps did the researcher take to improve external validity?

c. If it is a quasi- or non-experiment, what steps did the researcher take to improve internal validity?

d. Did the researcher carefully design the study to capitalise on the natural strengths of the category of study?

e. Do the capture of the variables (measure) the constructs the researcher claims they capture? Is there a more appropriate variable?

f. What limitations does the researcher point out?