Workshop on the Future of Meta-Analysis
Committee on National Statistics
Acknowledgments
Contents
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 Children
5. 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. Bradburn
13. 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