Preface | |
Reviewing the Literature | |
Why? For Whom? How? | |
A Reader's Guide | |
Purpose of This Chapter | |
What is a Research Literature Review? Why Do One? | |
Gaining Control | |
Experiments and Observations | |
Choosing an Online Bibliographic Database | |
Systematic, Explicit, Comprehensive, and Reproducible | |
Four Key Words | |
Changing the Course of the Search | |
Supplementing the Online Search | |
Organizing the Research Literature | |
Building a Virtual Filing Cabinet | |
Summary of Key Points | |
Exercises | |
Online Literature Reviews | |
General References | |
Notes | |
Searching and Screening | |
The Practical Screen and Methodological Quality (Part 1: Research Design and Sampling) | |
A Reader's GuidePurpose of This Chapter | |
Search Screen 1 | |
Practical ScreenSearch Screen 2 | |
Methodological Quality Screening Criteria--Part 1 | |
Research Design and Sampling | |
Summary of Key Points | |
Exercises | |
General References | |
Searching and Screening | |
Methodological Quality (Part 2: Data Collection, Interventions, Analysis, Results, and Conclusions) | |
A Reader's Guide | |
Purpose of This Chapter | |
Data Collection and Data Sources | |
Methods and Measures | |
Interventions and Programs | |
Reviewing the Research Literature to Find Out What Works | |
Information Analysis | |
Statistical Methods in the Research Literature | |
Summary of Key Points | |
Exercises | |
General References | |
Doing the Review | |
A Reader's Guide | |
Purpose of This Chapter | |
Types of Information | |
Methods and Content | |
Eligibility and Actuality | |
Reliable and Valid Reviews | |
Uniform Data Collection | |
The Literature Review Survey Questionnaire | |
Uniform Data Collection | |
Definitions and More | |
Pilot Testing the Review Process | |
Establishing Validity | |
Monitoring Quality | |
Summary of Key Points | |
Exercises | |
What Did You Find? Synthesizing Results | |
Purpose of This Chapter | |
Now That You Have Done It, What Do You Do With It? | |
Descriptive Syntheses or Reviews | |
Meta-Analysis | |
Meta-Analyses in Practice | |
ExamplesDescriptive Review Versus Meta-AnalysisSummary of Key PointsExercises | |
Notes | |
General References | |
Index | |
About the Author | |
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