Evaluation Studies Review Annual : Volume 8

The eighth volume in this series concentrates on developments of enormous importance to all of social science.

Through such techniques as meta-analysis, the findings of very different studies can be given different mathematical weights and combined.

Thus literature review becomes a way of consolidating past work in order to build upon it genuinely.

In this volume, methodological questions are dealt with and a range of examples of reviews of research in education, mental health and medicine are presented.