Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Eval Rev. 2024 Jun;48(3):515-543. doi: 10.1177/0193841X241229885. Epub 2024 Feb 3.
This chapter begins with an overview of recent developments that have encouraged and facilitated greater use of research syntheses, including Meta-Analysis, to guide public policy and practice in education, workforce development, and social services. It discusses the role of Meta-Analysis for improving knowledge of the effectiveness of programs, policies, and practices and the applicability and generalizability of that knowledge to conditions other than those represented by the study samples and settings. The chapter concludes with recommendations for improving the potential of Meta-Analysis to accelerate knowledge development through changing how we design, conduct, and report findings of individual studies to maximize their usefulness in Meta-Analysis as well as how we produce and report Meta-Analysis findings. The paper includes references to resources supporting the recommendations.
本章首先概述了最近的一些发展情况，这些情况鼓励并促进了更多地使用研究综合方法（包括 Meta 分析）来指导教育、劳动力发展和社会服务方面的公共政策和实践。它讨论了 Meta 分析在提高对项目、政策和实践有效性的认识，以及将该知识应用和推广到研究样本和环境以外的条件方面的作用。本章最后提出了一些建议，以通过改变我们设计、进行和报告个别研究结果的方式来提高 Meta 分析的潜力，从而加速知识的发展，使这些研究结果在 Meta 分析中尽可能地发挥作用，以及如何生成和报告 Meta 分析结果。本文还包括了支持这些建议的资源的参考文献。
