The Research Appraisal Checklist (RAC) contains 52 items, which have been ordered under eight major research categories. The RAC is designed to assist you to carefully and systematically assess the worth of a written research article.

When using this checklist in appraising a research article, you must give only one rating to each item. Circle the number that you think best describes the degree to which each item was represented in the research article. The numbers in the rating scale range from (1 = Not Met) to (6 = Completely Met).  After rating each research category, please write a brief narrative to support your research category score. It is expected that you provide rationale for your appraisal using your textbook or other reliable and valid sources with proper APA citations. Maximum length for entire completed document (including tables) is 7 pages. You must upload this as a Word document.