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The author provides researchers, editors, and readers with recommendations and guidelines for meta-analytic research. These recommendations are for procedures and for reporting meta-analytic findings. An applied example illustrates a meta-analysis with a data set and considers 2 research questions. Four main sections include: (a) a description of metaanalytic research methodology, (b) an illustration of a metaanalysis, (c) a review of The Journal of Educational Research articles in which meta-analyses were investigated from 1992-2002, and (d) recommendations and guidelines for conducting and reporting meta-analyses.
Elisha A. Chambers (Wed,) studied this question.