This study describes the use of meta-synthesis to review a large body of research literature and systematically synthesize the findings in an effort to develop a more informed understanding of a particular area of interest. Sections of the paper review similarities and differences among meta-analysis, meta-ethnography, and meta-synthesis; review a…

This handbook's second edition represents the state of the art for the theory and practice of qualitative inquiry. It features eight new topics, including autoethnography, critical race theory, applied ethnography, queer theory, and "testimonio"every chapter in the handbook has been thoroughly revised and updated. The book…

Against an historical backdrop, this paper summarizes four uses of intraclass correlation of importance to contemporary researchers in the behavioral sciences. First, it shows how the intraclass correlation coefficient can be used to adjust confidence intervals for statistical significance testing when data are intracorrelated and the independence…

The present study attempted to replicate the finding (Frase, 1973) that different organizations of a passage produce different levels of recall and also to determine if relevant learning might be less subject to these organizational effects than incidential learning. (Author)

The purpose of this research was to test the hypothesis that organization in rehearsal is a necessary condition for organization in recall; that is, if recall is organized, then rehearsal must have been organized. (Author)

A report of some effects of updating the adjective check-list in a follow-up of Katz and Braly's pioneer study of sterotyping, confirms that students possess sterotypes even though they may not make use of them or feel that their judgments are affected by them. (Author/KM)

The conventional analysis of variance applied to designs in which each subject is measured repeatedly requires stringent assumptions regarding the variance-covariance structure of the data. This paper considers alternatives when heterogeneity of covariance exists, including nonparametric tests, randomization and matching procedures, Box and…

Investigated empirically through post mortem item-examinee samplings were the relative merits of two alternative procedures for allocating items to subtests in multiple matrix sampling and the feasibility of using the jackknife in approximating standard errors of estimate. (Editor)

Implementing survey recommendations is a perennial administrative problem. This article suggests that giving more attention to the methods of conceiving, commissioning, and conducting surveys and communicating survey results could produce more effective implementation of the findings at the decisionmaking level. (Author)

Presents a research strategy for measuring policy impacts based on the principles of experimental design methodology. The strategy is illustrated through the application of a multivariate factorial design to the area of air pollution control. The overall approach is discussed in terms of its general utility for policy impact analysis. (Author)

Analysis supports the prediction that the amount of immanent justice is dependent upon the amount of causal information and the amount of relatedness in the moral dilemma. (Authors)

This study was an attempt to compare the effectiveness of affective learning in large group-small group combinations with conventional sized class groups of 50-60 students. (CK)

The author had to fill out an unexplained questionnaire. The data required by the questions does not in any way seem relevant to the author's profession, an English teacher. (MF)

Examples of scoring protocols, reliability data, and the relationship between components of a laboratory examination are reported. Differences between BSCS and non-BSCS biology students are examined. (AL)