Curriculum-based measures of written expression for learning-disabled and nondisabled students

✍ Scribed by Jodi T. Watkinson; Steven W. Lee

• Book ID: 102680084
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1992
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 551 KB
• Volume: 29
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0033-3085
• DOI: 10.1002/1520-6807(199204)29:2<184::aid-pits2310290214>3.0.co;2-c

✦ Synopsis

CONCLUSION

Meta-analysis offers researchers both at the university and in the classroom one additional tool for use in helping to describe conflicting empirical results about educating children (Brown & Brown, 1987). Using the fail-safe N requires decisions, and, as Sindelar and Wilson (1984) noted, logic and humanism will prevail, sometimes even in contradiction to empirical knowledge. As a result, the merits and shortcomings of meta-analysis and use of the fail-safe N will prevail as well. The fail-safe N, however, is one technique to help researchers and practitioners estimate the relative degree of stability from metaanalysis results and will assist professionals to spot potential hucksterism.

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