Summing Up: The Science of Reviewing Research
By Unknown Author.
Description
How can a scientist or policy analyst summarize and evaluate what is already known about a particular topic? This book offers practical guidance.The amount and diversity of information generated by academic and policy researchers in the contemporary world is staggering. How is an investigator to cope with the tens or even hundreds of studies on a particular problem? How can conflicting findings be reconciled? Richard Light and David Pillemer have developed both general guidelines and step-by-step procedures that can be used to synthesize existing data. They show how to apply quantitative me...
ISBN(s)
0674854314, 9780674854314
