期刊名称：Facta Universitatis. Series Philosophy, Sociology, Psychology and History
印刷版ISSN：0354-4648
出版年度：2011
卷号：10
期号：1
出版社：University of Niš, Serbia and Montenegro ; CEEOL
摘要：A meta-analysis is a synthesis of a research project, including a summary of the results of other studies in a meaningful connected display that enables the derivation of general conclusions. Therefore, meta-analysis units are not subjects, but studies, and this is what characterizes this method. Using the meta-analysis, researchers can choose among the two strategies so they can respond to problems: easy integration of studies dealing with the same problem in order to respond to it precisely, and the mutual comparison of different studies, which may not necessarily be focused on the same problem, in order to test the hypotheses that are tested in the initial research. The action of looking for studies in meta-analysis is not significantly different from searching for studies in traditional quantitative reviews. In both cases, the purpose is to find and obtain all the results concerning a given field. The contents of this part of the paper focus on the problem of describing methods of finding and selecting studies, and on determining of the results, the use of which is an absolute necessity in works on meta-analysis. What is presented here are both the procedures of searching for results, and mechanisms of processing results and their reliability.
关键词：meta-analysis, educational research, quantitative integrations, results synthesis, application in meta-analysis
