Evaluating research always sounds rather daunting for the inexperienced but it can be broken down into a number of simple steps.
Firstly, it is worth reminding yourself why it is important to evaluate research.
Perhaps the most important reason is that it enables you to decide the value or worth of a piece of research, given the purposes for which you wish to use it.
If you are going to use research to inform and shape practice or policy then the research needs to be reliable and rigorous.
Having decided that a piece of research needs evaluating, it is worth asking yourself the following questions about the article and its method
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