Meta-Analysis

Derek C. Briggs
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Derek C. Briggs: University of Colorado, Boulder

Evaluation Review, 2005, vol. 29, issue 2, 87-127

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.

Keywords: meta-analysis; literature review; SAT coaching; statistical inference (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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DOI: 10.1177/0193841X04272555

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