Practical Meta-Analysis by Mark W Lipsey
By integrating and translating the current methodological and statistical work into a practical guide, the authors of this text provide readers with a state-of-the-art introduction to the various approaches to doing meta-analysis.
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Case Study Research
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Qualitative Research Design
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Ethnography
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Mixed Methodology
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Improving Survey Questions
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Applications of Case Study Research
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Narrative Research
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Survey Research Methods
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Research Synthesis and Meta-Analysis
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Scale Development
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Methods for Policy Research
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Focus Groups
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Participant Observation
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Diagnosing Organizations
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Researching Persons with Mental Illness
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Communicating Social Science Research to Policy Makers
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Measuring Community Indicators
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Telephone Survey Methods
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Analyzing Costs, Procedures, Processes, and Outcomes in Human Services
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Standardized Survey Interviewing
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Graphing Data
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Doing Urban Research
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Research in Health Care Settings
"A book that describes the steps involved in a meta-analysis in an easy-to-understand format (not just as a cookbook recipe) will be a useful addition to the literaturePractical Meta-Analysis aptly fills this niche."
-- Chockalingam Viswesvaran * ORGANIZATIONAL RESEARCH METHODS, April 2002 *
Mark W. Lipsey is the Director of the Center for Evaluation Research and Methodology, and a Senior Research Associate, at the Vanderbilt Institute for Public Policy Studies (Ph.D. in Psychology from The Johns Hopkins University in 1972). His professional interests are in the areas of public policy, program evaluation research, social intervention, field research methodology, and research synthesis (meta-analysis). The topics of his recent research have been risk and intervention for juvenile delinquency and substance use, early childhood education programs, and issues of methodological quality in program evaluation research. Professor Lipsey serves on the editorial boards of Evaluation and Program Planning, Psychological Bulletin, the Journal of Experimental Criminology, and the American Journal of Community Psychology, and boards or committees of, among others, the National Research Council, the Department of Education What Works Clearinghouse, Campbell Collaboration, and Blueprints for Violence Prevention. He is a recipient of the American Evaluation Association’s Paul Lazarsfeld Award, the Society of Prevention Research’s Nan Tobler Award, a Fellow of the American Psychological Society, and co-author of the program evaluation textbook, Evaluation: A Systematic Approach and the meta-analysis primer, Practical Meta-Analysis.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780761921684 |
| ISBN 10 | 0761921680 |
| Title | Practical Meta-Analysis |
| Author | Mark W Lipsey |
| Series | Applied Social Research Methods |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc |
| Year published | 2000-10-10 |
| Number of pages | 264 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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