ACAP Pathfinder: Psychological Science

Download the Assessment Resource Pack from the bottom of this guide. It includes a REVIEW checklist.

This set of eight critical appraisal tools are designed to be used when reading research, these include tools for Systematic Reviews, Randomised Controlled Trials, Cohort Studies, Case Control Studies, Economic Evaluations, Diagnostic Studies, Qualitative studies and Clinical Prediction Rule.
These are free to download and can be used by anyone under the Creative Commons License.

The AGREE Reporting Checklist is intended to assist practice guideline developers to improve the completeness and transparency of reporting in practice guidelines. The checklist can also provide guidance to peer reviewers, journal editors, and guideline users about the essential components of a high quality practice guideline.

The University of South Australia. A range of appraisal tools, listed by type of study.

Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine. Checklists for SRs, diagnosis, prognosis, RCTs, qualitative studies, IPD reviews.

Joanna Briggs Institute. Checklists for analytical cross sectional studies, case control, case report, case series, cohort studies, diagnostic test accuracy studies, economic evaluations, prevalence studies, qualitative research, quasi-experimental studies, RCTs, SRs, text & opinion.

Assessing the quality of health research from an Indigenous perspective.

Naicker's Critically Appraising for Antiracism Quality Appraisal Tool.

Contains checklists for appraising qualitative and quantitative research along with a detailed explanation of how to use and score them.

View a prototype TDR quality assessment framework, organized as an evaluation rubric along with an overview of the relevant literature and summary of the main aspects of TDR quality identified there. Four main principles emerge: relevance, including social significance and applicability; credibility, including criteria of integration and reflexivity, added to traditional criteria of scientific rigor; legitimacy, including criteria of inclusion and fair representation of stakeholder interests, and; effectiveness, with criteria that assess actual or potential contributions to problem solving and social change.

A basic descriptive set of criteria from the Journal of European Psychology Students.