QUESTION 1 A matrix is a box or rectangle with rows and columns, like a spreadsheet

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QUESTION 1 A matrix is a box or rectangle with rows and columns, like

a spreadsheet. In a review matrix, the rows are for documents, such as journal articles, and the columns are for the topics you will use to summarize each of those documents. A summary of an article in a review matrix describes only the most pertinent points about the topic. True False QUESTION 2 The reason for using the Matrix Method is to create order out of chaos. In a review of the literature, the chaos that you must deal with is too much information spread across too many journal articles or other source documents with too many details to remember. True False QUESTION 3 Constructing a review matrix as a basis for writing a synthesis in a literature review is a simple three-step process: 1. Organizing the documents: Organize the Documents folder chronologically by arranging the source documents from the oldest to the most recent by year of publication. 2. Choosing column topics: Set up the review matrix on your computer desktop using either the table function in a word processor or a spreadsheet, and decide which topics to use for this review of the literature. 3. Abstracting the documents: Read and abstract each source document under each of the column topics, one at a time, in chronological order, from oldest to most recent. Record your notes under each topic in the review matrix. When preparing a Review Matrix, remember my "Rule of Rows": Abstract each paper one at a time. Finish that paper before going on to the next, more recent paper, located in the next row of the Review Matrix. True False QUESTION 4 In a review of the literature, the three most important decisions you will make are (1) specifying the purpose of the literature review, (2) selecting the source documents, and (3) choosing the column topics. Column topics in a review matrix are the issues or concepts used to abstract each journal article or other source document. True False QUESTION 5 Never read an empirical paper without a calculator. Check the numbers and the percentages. Do the number of subjects in the tables of results add up to the numbers the researchers said they enrolled at the beginning of the study? All of this will help you understand what the authors did in conducting their study. Two other important tools to have at hand when critically reading a research paper are the highlighter tool in your word processor or spreadsheet for marking important sections of the paper and a sticky note or comment tool in your software for writing notes and questions on the paper itself. True False QUESTION 6 In constructing a review matrix, your task is to take each article or source material and record notes based on the column topics. The notes in the cells of the review matrix have to be concise and very short. Their purpose is to allow you to track the details of a study, not to summarize the entire article. True False QUESTION 7 A review of any body of literature actually consists of four fundamental tasks, after the subject of the review has been decided these include writing a synthesis that includes only the content and never a critical analysis of these materials. True False QUESTION 8 The Matrix Method is both a structure and a process for systematically reviewing the literature. The structure is provided by the Lit Review master folder that contains all of the notes and documentation you accumulated as you reviewed the literature. The Lit Review master folder includes four other folders that include ALL the following EXCEPT Non-synthesis folder True False QUESTION 9 Having a copy of a source document in the documents folder guarantees that you will be able to find it efficiently the next time you need it. True False QUESTION 10 A more sophisticated strategy for indexing the contents of an expanding Documents folder is the Matrix Indexing System. The simpler approach is this tracking system. Whichever system you use, the benefits accrue only if you keep the list up to date. True False