Big Five and Academic Success

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Annotated Summary Instructions: For this assignment, read the attached research article and write an annotated summary. The summary should be written in your own words with very limited use of direct quotes. If you include a direct quote, it needs to be designated with quotation marks followed by the page number from which the quote was selected. ______________________________ Please include the following in your summary: 1. What was the purpose of the paper? This should include a. A summary of the study variables. b. A summary of the hypotheses 2. Describe the paper’s experimental methodology. This should include: a. What was the sample size? b. Who were the participants? Ages, genders, education levels, ethnicity? c. What did the participants have to do (fill out a survey, take a test, run through an experiment)? 3. What were the major results of this study? a. What statistical analysis did the researcher perform, were the results significant? b. How did the results relate to the hypotheses? (to what extent .were the hypotheses supported?) 4. What major conclusions did the researcher draw from the study? Including: a. How did this study add to the literature? b. How were the results of this study different than other studies in this area? c. What were the limitations of this study? d. What new questions does this study raise?