Systematic Reviewing and Meta-Analysis: How to be a Good Consumer of Scientific Literature Reviews
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2015-02-06
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Indiana University Workshop in Methods
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Policymakers, researchers, and practitioners are increasingly likely to value systematic reviews. However, the quality of systematic reviews varies widely. This workshop will (a) describe the history and logic of systematic reviewing and meta-analysis, (b) demonstrate the ways in which systematic reviews provide a better method for assessing what a body of evidence reveals about the relationships under study, and (c) walk participants through a simple meta-analysis. The workshop will conclude with a core list of questions that can be asked of any systematic review to assess its quality.
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Jeff Valentine earned his Ph.D. in Social Psychology from the University of Missouri-Columbia. He is a Professor of Educational Psychology, Measurement, and Evaluation at the University of Louisville. Dr. Valentine is the co-editor, with Harris Cooper and Larry Hedges, of the Handbook of Research Synthesis and Meta-Analysis, 2nd ed., associate editor of Research Synthesis Methods, the co-chair of the training group for the Campbell Collaboration, and a statistical editor in the Cochrane Collaboration. He is also the principal investigator of the What Works Clearinghouse's efforts in postsecondary education (U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences), and has authored over three dozen works that use, explain, or seek to improve the methods of systematic reviewing and meta-analysis.
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Workshop in Methods, meta-analysis, research methods
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