Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Workshop on the Future of Meta-Analysis; Committee on National Statistics; Acknowledgments; Introduction
  • Kenneth W. Wachter and Miron L. Straf; I. Prospects; 1. History and Goals
  • Ingram Olkin; 2. Directions for Future Methodology
  • Larry V. Hedges; II. Case Study: The Effects of Rehabilitation Therapy for Aphasia; 3. The Making of a Meta-Analysis: A Quantitative Review of the Aphasia Treatment Literature
  • Joel B. Greenhouse / Davida Fromm / Satish Iyengar / Mary Amanda Dew / Audrey L. Holland / Robert E. Kass; 4. A Discussion of the Aphasia Study
  • Nan M. Laird
  • III. Case Study: The Effects of School Desegregation on the Academic Achievement of Black Children5. Research, Meta-Analysis, and Desegregation Policy
  • Jeffrey M. Schneider; 6. An Overivew of the Desegregation Meta-Analyses
  • Linda Ingram; 7. Comments on the Desegregation Summary Analysis
  • S. James Press; 8. On the School Psychology of Using Research Reviews
  • Harris M. Cooper; 9. Moving Beyond Meta-Analysis
  • Harris M. Cooper; 10. An Assessment from the Policy Perspective
  • David S. Cordray; IV. Vantage Points; 11. An Evolution of Procedures and Results
  • Robert Rosenthal
  • 12. A Survey Perspective
  • Norman M. Bradburn13. Methodological Obseravtions on the Bias
  • Fredric M. Wolf; V. Where Do We Go From Here?; 14. A New Perspective
  • Donald B. Rubin; 15. Concepts Under Scrutiny: Discussion; 16. Summing Up
  • Frederick Mosteller; References; Index