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Meta-Analysis

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  • Derek C. Briggs

    (University of Colorado, Boulder)

Abstract

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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  • Derek C. Briggs, 2005. "Meta-Analysis," Evaluation Review, , vol. 29(2), pages 87-127, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:evarev:v:29:y:2005:i:2:p:87-127
    DOI: 10.1177/0193841X04272555
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