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The QALMRI Method
Explanation of writing a QALMRI
The information you are trying to convey in writing your final project is the same as the information you are trying to extract from journal articles that you read.
The QALMRI method highlights this important information as:
What are the broad and specific questions?, what were the alternative hypotheses, what was the logic of the design, what was the method, what were the results, what inferences about the specific and broad question can be made from the results, whatʼs the next experiment?
Your task
Writing a QALMRI for any research paper (one that you are writing, or one that you are reading) is simply writing short answers to each of these questions using clear and concise language. It is a condensed, short-form, version of the research. To be even more specific, your task is to answer these questions for your final project, and for one paper you reference in your final project:
Question: What was the broad question? What was the specific question?
Alternative hypotheses: What were the hypotheses?
Logic: If hypothesis #1 was true, what was the predicted outcome? What was the predicted outcome if hypothesis #2 was true?
Method: What was the experimental design?
Results: What was the pattern of data?
Inferences: What can be concluded about the hypotheses based on the data?
What can be concluded about the specific and broad question? What are the next steps?
How long is a QALRMI? Long-enough to answer each question with clear and brief sentences.
Contents of this document
1. Long-form notes of each section of QALMRI
2. Example QALMRI write-up for one research paper
QALMRI – Long Form Notes
Adapted nearly verbatim from: Kosslyn, S.M. & Rosenberg, R.S. (2001).
Psychology: The Brain, The Person, The World. Boston: Allyn & Bacon.
The QALMRI method provides a means for critically evaluating experiments, as well as for organizing your own experiment proposals. It helps you to find connections between theory and data by
Explanation of writing a QALMRI
The information you are trying to convey in writing your final project is the same as the information you are trying to extract from journal articles that you read.
The QALMRI method highlights this important information as:
What are the broad and specific questions?, what were the alternative hypotheses, what was the logic of the design, what was the method, what were the results, what inferences about the specific and broad question can be made from the results, whatʼs the next experiment?
Your task
Writing a QALMRI for any research paper (one that you are writing, or one that you are reading) is simply writing short answers to each of these questions using clear and concise language. It is a condensed, short-form, version of the research. To be even more specific, your task is to answer these questions for your final project, and for one paper you reference in your final project:
Question: What was the broad question? What was the specific question?
Alternative hypotheses: What were the hypotheses?
Logic: If hypothesis #1 was true, what was the predicted outcome? What was the predicted outcome if hypothesis #2 was true?
Method: What was the experimental design?
Results: What was the pattern of data?
Inferences: What can be concluded about the hypotheses based on the data?
What can be concluded about the specific and broad question? What are the next steps?
How long is a QALRMI? Long-enough to answer each question with clear and brief sentences.
Contents of this document
1. Long-form notes of each section of QALMRI
2. Example QALMRI write-up for one research paper
QALMRI – Long Form Notes
Adapted nearly verbatim from: Kosslyn, S.M. & Rosenberg, R.S. (2001).
Psychology: The Brain, The Person, The World. Boston: Allyn & Bacon.
The QALMRI method provides a means for critically evaluating experiments, as well as for organizing your own experiment proposals. It helps you to find connections between theory and data by