Worksheet 6: Article Critique

Please find the following article in Canvas (Files Handouts Articles):

Mueller, P. A., & Oppenheimer, D. M. (2014). The pen is mightier than the keyboard: Advantages of longhand over laptop note taking.Psychological science,25(6), 1159- 1168.

Please read through this article and answer the following questions:

1. What type of study was conducted in this article (Frequency, correlational, experimental)? How do you know?

2. What is the research question being explored in this article? What are the hypotheses made in each study?

3. Across studies, what is the conceptual variable that is being explored in this article?

4.How was this concept operationalized for each study? Do you think there is anything wrong with this operationalization? If so, what? If not, play the devil's advocate as to what could be argued to be wrong with it.

5. make question or criticize about one of the types of validities that we have discussed in class (statistical, internal, external etc.). If you chose to criticize, please explain the rationale behind your comment and explain how the researchers could have fixed this.

6. OVERALL, do you personally think the findings in the article are valid? EXPLAIN why or why not.