Question 1) Do you pledge that you located the journal article on your own?
Question 2) What is/are the authors' research question(s)?
Question 3) What is the research strategy used? Is this quantitative or qualitative?
Question 4) What type of research design is used?
Question 5) What method(s) are used to collect data?
Question 6) What do the authors hypothesize?
Question 7) What are the dependent and independent variables?
Question 8) What dimensions do they use to measure SES?
Question 9) How do they measure each dimension of SES? That is, what are the possible categories in which the respondents could fall for each measure of SES? Hint: Look at Table 1.
Question 10) What is/are the article's contribution(s) to the field? Questions to consider:
a. Do the findings present new information? If so, what?
b. Do the findings extend prior research? If so, how?
c. Do the findings replicate prior findings?
Question 11) What are the main findings? What are the authors' conclusions?
Question 12) What key concepts/words emerge from this article? Hint: Ask yourself "What is this paper about?" and "What would I search for if I was trying to retrieve a paper on this topic?"
(Identifying key concepts helps you synthesize the literature into conceptual clusters later on.)