Critical appraisal.pptx for mhpe or chpe students for research

critical appraisal

1. Critical appraisal

2. Critical appraisal The process of carefully and systematically analyzing a research paper to judge its trustworthiness, its value, and relevance in a particular context.

3. When to carry out? • Conducting literature reviews for research proposals or projects. • Reviewing a journal article • Evaluating the effectiveness, costs, and benefits of health programs, Interventions etc. • Establishing new health care programs • When implementing health policies • Before public health decision-making

4. Critical appraisal of different parts of an article

5. Research question 1.What is the purpose of the research? 2.What tone is the paper taking? 3.What research methods were used?

6. Abstract ▪ Are your issues discussed there? ▪ What are the main findings of the research? ▪ Do you want to know more after reading the abstract? ▪ Does it address a related question?

7. Introduction and Discussion • The introduction and discussion sections will help you to identify the key concepts, research gap, goals, subjects, and themes of the research. • At the end rationale is given?

8. Methodology ▪ The Methodology will give you a step-by-step description of exactly how the study was carried out . ▪ Where the study was done? ▪ From whom the data was collected? ▪ Is it primary or secondary data? ▪ And how the data was collected?

9. ▪ How good is the data? ▪ Are the statistical methods appropriate? ▪ Is the sample large enough to produce significant results?

10. Results • Are the results aligned with the methods and objective? • Are the results leading to answer the research question?

11. Discussion • The discussion section is more detailed and precise than the abstract. • Will explain the limitations of the research and possible conclusions which are not mentioned in the abstract.

12. S . no Author/ Year Title Study Type Key Findings Implications Limitation Remarks

13. theme Main idea

14. Extract themes from the articles Impact of AI on education AI contribution to research AI and Teacher Support AI and Curriculum Design AI and Academic Advising

15. Concept map Visual representations of information

16. Make a concept map

17. Discuss each theme in detail

18. Reflect upon all the process Gibb’s Reflective Cycle

19. References

20. Why we give references Referencing allows you to acknowledge the contribution of other writers and researchers in your work.

21. How to do referencing? Manually Through softwares Mendeley E ndNote

22. Exploring mendeley