Research Synthesis and Meta-Analysis: A Step-by-Step Approach (Applied Social Research Methods) - Softcover

Cooper, Harris

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1412937051 ISBN 13: 9781412937054

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc, 2009

Synopsis

Providing researchers with a practical and accessible advice, the Fourth Edition of the lauded Research Synthesis and Meta-Analysis offers thoroughly updated information. Author Harris M. Cooper draws on more than 30 years of experience to show readers how to conduct a comprehensive synthesis of past research.

Key Updates of the Fourth Edition:

- Presents an updated version of Cooper′s easy-to-follow seven-step research synthesis process

- Highlights the critical questions to ask about synthesis methodology at each step and the identification of "best practices"

- Contains two new chapters giving expanded treatments of gathering information from studies and interpreting the evidence from a research synthesis

- Provides completely updated material on techniques for searching the literature with an emphasis on new technologies and the Internet

- Includes a discussion of recent advances and issues in meta-analysis statistical techniques

- Offers new standards for reporting meta-analyses results

- Incorporates new research syntheses drawn from the fields of education, social/developmental psychology, and health throughout the book

The book is written in plain language with numerous examples. Each chapter concludes with exercises for use as class projects. Readers who are engaged in their first research synthesis will find ample guidance to help them through the process. Experienced research synthesists will find lucid discussions of complex problems.

About this title

About the Author

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1412937051
• ISBN 13: 9781412937054
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 280