Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education National Capital Region

Division of City Schools Quezon City

Quezon City Science High School

(Regional Science High School for NCR)
Golden Acres Rd. cor. Misamis Street, Bago Bantay, Quezon City 1105

DEVELOPMENTAL READING
Scientific Journal Analysis Task Prompt
GENERAL DIRECTIONS
Your groups were previously given or were assigned to work on the
different scientific journals, whose links, for your greater convenience, will
be posted here again. You are not restricted to look at the other journals for
a bit of reading and if you want to know more about things, but remember
to focus on analyzing and evaluating first and foremost the scientific journal
assigned to your group:
Journal 1:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Manuel_Aybar/publication/12163248_
Hypoglycemic_effect_of_the_water_extract_of_Smallantus_sonchifolius_
%28yacon
%29_leaves_in_normal_and_diabetic_rats/links/0912f50c8d8a815b13000000
.pdf
Aybar, M. J., Riera, A. N. S., Grau, A., & Sanchez, S. S. (2001).
Hypoglycemic effect of the water extract of Smallantus sonchifolius (yacon)
leaves in normal and diabetic rats. Journal of ethnopharmacology, 74(2),
125-132.
Journal 2:
http://repository.umac.mo/bitstream/10692/1309/2/9407.pdf
Bernardo, A. B. (2012). Perceived legitimacy of parental control over
academic behaviors and adolescent students academic adjustment.
European journal of psychology of education, 27(4), 557-571.
Journal 3:
http://img2.timg.co.il/forums/1_140796930.pdf
Black, S. (2003). The magic of Harry Potter: Symbols and heroes of
fantasy. Children's Literature in Education, 34(3), 237-247.
Journal 4:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Dimitar_Karakashev/publication/40766
884_Production_of_bioethanol_from_wheat_straw_An_overview_on_pretreat
ment_hydrolysis_and_fermentation/links/0c960530de14a0b1fe000000.pdf

Talebnia, F., Karakashev, D., & Angelidaki, I. (2010). Production of

bioethanol from wheat straw: an overview on pretreatment, hydrolysis and
fermentation. Bioresource Technology, 101(13), 4744-4753.
Journal 5:
http://ace.ucr.edu/pubs_by_topic/7.Bullying%20-%20Graham.pdf
Juvonen, J., Graham, S., & Schuster, M. A. (2003). Bullying among
young adolescents: The strong, the weak, and the troubled. Pediatrics,
112(6), 1231-1237.
Journal 6:
http://74.81.82.220/documents/PJIM/Volume%2048%20(2010)/Number
%202%20(July-September)/9-the%20mocha%20dm.pdf
Lim, S. T., Jimeno, C. A., Razon-Gonzales, E. B., & Velasquez, E. N.
(2010). The MOCHA DM study: The effect of Momordica charantia tablets
on glucose and insulin levels during the postprandial state among patients
with type 2 diabetes mellitus. Phil. J. Inter. Med, 48, 19-25.
Journal 7:
https://labs.psych.ucsb.edu/gable/shelly/sites/labs.psych.ucsb.edu.gable.shel
ly/files/pubs/gross_et_al._2002.pdf
Gross, E. F., Juvonen, J., & Gable, S. L. (2002). Internet use and wellbeing in adolescence. Journal of social issues, 58(1), 75-90.
You will adhere to the following conventions in fulfilling the task.
1) Output length: Maximum of two (2) pages, which will contain
the answers to the following questions:
a) What questions does the paper address?
1. What is the main research question?
2. What are other questions that you see in the paper?
3. Were all the questions properly answered? Justify your
opinion.
b) What are the main conclusions of the paper?
c) What evidence supports these conclusions?
1. What was the method done to achieve the conclusion/s?
2. What materials were needed to conduct experiments or
analysis?
3. What results were obtained from the experiments or
analysis?
d) Do the data actually support these conclusions?
1. Was the researcher able to clearly explain the results of
his or her research in the Discussion part?
i. Did he or she give an explanation to each and
every result he or she obtained?

ii. Do you believe these explanations are sufficient?

Why or why not?
2. Look at the materials and methods. Was the
experimentation done well enough to produce the said
data? Why or why not?
e) What is the quality of the evidence?
1. How many sources did the author cite? Look at the
references.
2. Did all his or her references appear in the paper?
(Kindly check the parts after the abstract until
discussion to do this.)
f) Why are the conclusions important?
1. Who do you think benefits from the research results?
2. What other researches can you think of which can
continue to increase curiosity for other researchers to
study this topic?
3. Check Google Scholar (scholar.google.com). Are there
any other researches about this topic? If yes, how
many? (Hint: check the results page).
2) Font and Font Size:
a. GARAMOND (this font)
b. Size 12
3) Margins: 1 inch margin on all sides (default in MS Word 2010 and
later)
4) Spacing: Single spacing (right click select font from the dropdown menu and adjust Spacing to Single, and make sure the
spacing Before and After is set to 0).
5) Include a cover page with your names. A format is attached on the
next page.

GOOD LUCK!
Sir Jayson

Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education National Capital Region
Division of City Schools Quezon City

Quezon City Science High School

(Regional Science High School for NCR)
Golden Acres Rd. cor. Misamis Street, Bago Bantay, Quezon City 1105

Scientific Journal Analysis and

Evaluation
Aldhaban, F. (2012, July). Exploring the adoption of
Smartphone technology: Literature review. In Technology
Management for Emerging Technologies (PICMET), 2012
Proceedings of PICMET'12: (pp. 2758-2770). IEEE.
In partial fulfillment of the requirements for:
Developmental Reading
Submitted by:
Group 1
Boys:
DELA CRUZ, Juan Miguel A.
DIMAGUIBA, Perfecto D.
SALIGUMBA, Martin C.
Girls:
DIMAYUGA, Darna D.
LIM, Ma. Lara L.
Grade 7 Pascal
Submitted to:
Mr. Jayson D. Zabala
Subject Teacher

Date Submitted: 19 January 2016