Meta-Analysis for Explanation: A Casebook: A Casebook

by Harris Cooper and Heidi Hartmann

Book Overview

Social science research often yields conflicting results: Does juvenile delinquent rehabilitation work? Is teenage pregnancy prevention effective? In an effort to improve the value of research for shaping social policy, social scientists are increasingly employing a powerful technique called meta-analysis. By systematically pulling together findings of a particular research problem, meta-analysis allows researchers to synthesize the results of multiple...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 087154220X
• ISBN13: 9780871542205
• Release Date: April 1992
• Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
• Length: 392 Pages