Meta-analysis has become an important supplement to traditional methods of research reviewing, although many problems must be addressed by the reviewer who carries out a meta-analysis. These problems include identifying and obtaining appropriate studies, extracting estimates of effect size from the studies, coding or classifying studies, analyzing…

In two treatment-repeated measurements designs, the ratio between the unbiased variance of the differences and twice the variance of the errors of measurement can be used to test for interaction of subjects and treatments. The use of this statistic is illustrated. (Author/CP)

Four approaches to estimating interrater reliability in early childhood special education research are illustrated and compared: correlation, comparison of means, percentage of agreement, and generalizability theory techniques. Generalizability theory techniques are proposed as a method for estimating the amount of variance attributable to…