Research Synthesis and Meta-Analysis - A Step-By-Step Approach

Informationen zum Autor Harris Cooper is Hugo L. Blomquist professor for psychology and neuroscience at Duke University. In 2007, he received the Contributions to Research Synthesis Methodology Award from the International Campbell Collaboration. In 2008, he received the Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for Research Synthesis Methodology. He has been the editor of Psychological Bulletin and Archives of Scientific Psychology. From 2009 to 2015, he was the Chief Editorial Advisor to the American Psychological Association ’s journal publishing program. His substantive interests include application of social and developmental psychology to education policy. Klappentext The Fifth Edition of Harris Cooper's bestselling Research Synthesis and Meta-Analysis: A Step-by-Step Approach offers practical advice on how to conduct a synthesis of research in the social, behavioral, and health sciences. The book is written in plain language with four running examples drawn from psychology, education, and health science. With ample coverage of literature searching and the technical aspects of meta-analysis, this one-of-a-kind book applies the basic principles of sound data gathering to the task of producing a comprehensive assessment of existing research. Zusammenfassung Providing readers with an introduction to how to conduct a research synthesis of literature! this Fifth Edition has new material on the use of the internet and other new developments in technology! including new statistics for describing meta-analytic results Inhaltsverzeichnis INTRODUCTION: LITERATURE REVIEWS, RESEARCH SYNTHESES AND META-ANALYSES STEP 1: Formulating the Problem STEP 2: Searching the Literature STEP 3: Gathering Information From Studies STEP 4: Evaluating the Quality of Studies STEP 5: Analyzing and Integrating the Outcomes of Studies STEP 6: Interpreting the Evidence STEP 7: Presenting the Results CONCLUSION: Threats to the Validity of Research Synthesis Conclusions ...

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Harris Cooper, Harris M Cooper, Harris M. Cooper, Cooper Harris
• Verlag: Sage Publications Ltd
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 29.02.2016
• EAN: 9781483331157
• ISBN: 978-1-4833-3115-7
• Seiten: 384
• Serien: Applied Social Research Methods; Applied Social Research Method; Applied Social Research Methods; Applied Social Research Method
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Pädagogik > Bildungswesen; Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Naturwissenschaften allgemein; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Sozialwissenschaften allgemein; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Research, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Statistics, REFERENCE / Research, Social research & statistics, Social research and statistics, Research methods: general, Research methods / methodology