Research in Higher Education, Vol. 11, No. 4 (1979), pp. 321-341 (21 pages) The present article describes a statistical synthesis of results from 48 comparative studies of an innovative method of ...

Meta-analysis is the quantitative, scientific synthesis of research results. Since the term and modern approaches to research synthesis were first introduced in the 1970s, meta-analysis has had a ...

Meta-analysis is an objective examination of published data from many studies of the same research topic identified through a literature search. Through the use of rigorous statistical methods, it can ...