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3 Article Reviews –

Tanner, C. K. (2008). Effects of school design on student outcomes. Journal of Educational Administration, 47(3), 381-399.

Farley-Ripple, E. N., Raffel, J. A., & Welch, J. C. (2012). Administrator career paths and decision processes. Journal of Educational Administration, 50(6), 788-816.

Donmoyer, R., Yennie-Donmoyer, J., & Galloway, F. (2012). The Search for Connections Across Principal Preparation, Principal Performance, and Student Achievement in an Exemplary Principal Preparation Program. Journal of Research on Leadership Education, 7(1), 5–43

Respond to the following questions based on the three articles above.

1. What is the major purpose of the study in each article?
2. What is the research question or hypothesis (there may be more than one) in each article?
3. Discuss the extent to which these research studies reviewed the research literature.
4. Identify the independent and dependent variables studied. If no variables exist, explain. Does the author provide a theoretical definition of the variables? If so, please describe?
5. Identify the operational definitions of the variables you described above.
6. Describe each of the study’s subjects, participants and sampling methods used.
7. What kind of study design was used in each of the articles? Do you think the study designs were appropriate to the purpose of each study? Would other designs have been better?
8. What methods of data collection were used in each of the studies? What were the advantages and disadvantages? Comment on the practicality of the methods used. (Comment on the validity and reliability of the data collection method).
9. What was the method of data analysis for each article?
10. What are the identified limitations of each study?
11. What is the identified direction and need for future research for each study?