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Adrian Adams; Lauren Barth-Cohen – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2024
In undergraduate research settings, students are likely to encounter anomalous data, that is, data that do not meet their expectations. Most of the research that directly or indirectly captures the role of anomalous data in research settings uses post-hoc reflective interviews or surveys. These data collection approaches focus on recall of past…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Physics, Science Instruction, Laboratory Experiments
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Baker, Rose D.; Jackson, Dan – Research Synthesis Methods, 2013
The use of meta-analysis in medicine and epidemiology really took off in the 1970s. However, in high-energy physics, the Particle Data Group has been carrying out meta-analyses of measurements of particle masses and other properties since 1957. Curiously, there has been virtually no interaction between those working inside and outside particle…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Physics, Error of Measurement, Statistical Analysis