Meta-analysis
What Meta-analysis means in Psychology A-Level, as defined for AQA, OCR.
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Reference: AQA
A use of secondary data that rests entirely on it, combining the findings of studies the researcher did not carry out.
Pooling scores that were collected by other teams, so the data remain second hand however new the analysis is.
The disciplined use of secondary data in which results from many studies of one question are pooled.
A method in which Anderson found a small but consistent effect across published experiments.
Topics that use Meta-analysis
- Aggression (AQA A-Level)
- Data handling and analysis (AQA A-Level)
- Handling data (AQA A-Level)
- D.1 – handling data (OCR A-Level)
Related terms
- co-variables
- levels of measurement
- normal distribution
- primary data
- qualitative data
- quantitative data
- secondary data
- central tendency
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