Recommends that analysts (1) use conventional meta-analytic statistics when testing for moderator variables; (2) perform tests between mean effect sizes; and (3) continue to perform model tests in meta-analyses for which study outcomes are already consistent if they have theoretical expectations about moderators. (RS)

The planning and management of educational systems has been examined widely in the last decades despite the lack of a standard research method and a unified underlying theory. Research based on quantitative analysis yields data that may be processed using the graphic capabilities of computers. The combination of numerical data and computer…

Discussion of possible applications of the microsimulation approach to analysis of population policy proposes compulsory sterilization policy for all of India. Topics covered include India's population problem, methods for generating a distribution of couples to be sterilized, model validation, data utilized, data analysis, program limitations,…