Meta-Analysis: A Case Study  

Oleh:

Briggs, Derek C.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Evaluation Review vol. 29 no. 2 (Apr. 2005), page 87-127.
Topik: meta-analysis; literature review; SAT coaching; statistical inference
Fulltext: 87.pdf (203.34KB)

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This article raises some questions about the usefulness of meta-analysis as a means of reviewing quantitative research in the social sciences. When a meta-analytic model for SAT coaching is used to predict results from future studies, the amount of prediction error is quite large. Interpretations of meta-analytic regressions and quantifications of program and study characteristics are shown to be equivocal. The match between the assumptions of the meta-analytic model and the data from SAT coaching studies is not good, making statistical inferences problematic. Researcher subjectivity is no less problematic in the context of a meta-analysis than in a narrative review.

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