Comment: I need you to answer the questions based on the study as a number list. No references needed, only answer these questions - 3 pages are required.

Achievement Goals in the Classroom: Students' Learning Strategies and Motivation Processes

Carole Ames and Jennifer Archer - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Journal of Educational Psychology 1988, Vol. 80, No. 3,260-267

1. Who is the intended audience?

2. What are the specific sections and subsections of this study? (You need to familiarize yourself with the parts of a published research study)

3. What is the research focus or object (e.g., what is the problem, gap, purpose, or issue that the study addresses)?

4. What are the research questions (and hypotheses)? Are they clearly stated and logical?

5. What key theories and concepts frame the study?

6. What body/bodies of literature does the study draw upon?

7. What methods of data collection and analysis are used?
a. Does the study provide specifics on procedures and provide example materials?
b. Are they systematic?
c. Who are the participants? What is the research context?
d. How is the role of the researcher theorized (implicitly or explicitly)?
e. Are they replicable?

8. What are the study findings?

9. "So what?"
a. according to the author(s)
b. according to you

10. What is the study's contribution to theory construction and social practice (i.e., what new knowledge did it produce)?

11. Evaluate the researcher's choices related to questions 2-8.
a. Are they coherent?
b. How do these choices affect the study's findings and contributions?

12. What alternative choices could be made, and how might they affect the findings and contribution?

13. Critique and comments: What questions do you still have after reading this study? What was clear/unclear? How might you do this study differently?