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Reconceptualizing Practical Meta-Analysis in Education

Sun, April 15, 8:15 to 10:15am, New York Marriott Marquis, Floor: Fifth Floor, Belasco

Session Type: Symposium

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Meta-analysis is the statistical combination of results from a collection of studies that address a common research question. Meta-analysis is used in many fields—including education, psychology, and other social and behavioral sciences—to inform decision-making. When it is used appropriately, meta-analysis is a principled and objective approach to summarizing accumulated scientific knowledge, with the potential to reduce biases. However, a meta-analysis will produce unbiased results only when studies are collected systematically, appropriate effect sizes and variances are computed for each primary study, and effect sizes are combined using appropriate statistical methods. This symposium will present a series of papers that re-conceptualize the purposes and uses of meta-analysis in education by challenging the ways that meta-analysis is currently taught, applied, and perceived.

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