2025-2026
critical thinking - Answers examination of ideas, beliefs statements, actions, etc.
Critcal reading - Answers where the reader can enter a point of view of the reader
Preliminary - Answers - familiarize yourself with the content
- skim article, identify concepts and unfamiliar terms
Comprehensive - Answers undertsand the readers purpose
-identify the main theme, research design and clarify unfamiliar terms
Analytical - Answers Understand parts of the study and develop a critique
- asses the study's value for your needs, evaluate the validity and applicability to practice
Synthesis - Answers understand the whole article and how it fills with the larger body of
knoweldge
- understand the article, each step of the research process, use your own words to describe,
identify the articles strengths and weaknesses
Levels of Evidence: Level 1 - Answers -Meta Analysis
-Systematic Review of RCT's/Experimental Studies
-EB clinical practice guidelines based on systematic reviews
Levels of Evidence: level 2 - Answers randomized controlled trials
Levels of Evidence: Level 3 - Answers -Quazi-experimental studies
-->Controlled trial w/o randomization
Levels of Evidence: Level 4 - Answers nonexperimental studies
Levels of Evidence: Level 5 - Answers Evidence from descriptive or qualitative studies
Levels of Evidence: level 6 - Answers Evidence from a single descriptive or qualitative study
Levels of Evidence: Level 7 - Answers Evidence from the opinion of authorities and/or reports of
expert committees
Systematic reviews - Answers an analysis of the evailable literature (evidence) and a judgement
of the effectiveness or otherwise of a practice, involving a set of complex steps --->includes
meta-analysis, integrate review,s coping reviews and meta analysis