Meta-analysis Course Materials

Throughout 2008, Prof. Herb Marsh, Ms. Alison O’Mara, and Dr. Lars-Erik Malmberg have conducted meta-analysis workshops and seminars, funded through the ESRC Researcher Development Initiative (www.rdi.ac.uk). Below are the materials that were presented at these courses, which are freely available for you to download. Please acknowledge the relevant authors if you use these materials.

Please note that THERE ARE NO FURTHER META-ANALYSIS COURSES PLANNED.

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COURSE MATERIALS

The Advanced Meta-analysis Seminar presented by Prof. Joop Hox was held at the Department of Education, University of Oxford, on 7 November. You can download Prof. Hox's presentation in a zip file here. As an adjunct to his seminar, Prof Joop Hox has kindly made available a draft of his chapter on multilevel meta-analysis from his upcoming revised edition of Multilevel Analysis, Techniques and Applications, which you may download here. We thank Joop for this fantastic resource!

The Intermediate Meta-analysis Workshops were held at the University of Oxford (4-6 July 2008) and the University of Stirling (1-3 September 2008). The course materials (developed by Marsh, O'Mara, and Malmberg) are available below:

Download the SPSS datasets relevant to the examples

Day 1:

• Introduction presentation
• Effect size calculation presentation
• Effect size calculation exercise
• Effect sizes example dataset
• Meta-analytic equations presentation
• Practical example - fixed, random, & multilevel Meta20 data
• Results Hand-out for Meta20 example
• Meta20 xls dataset

Day 2:

• Revision of Day 1 materials presentation
• Publication bias presentation
• Study quality presentation
• 3-level meta-analysis presentation
• 3-level meta-analysis example 

Day 3:

• Revision of Day 2 materials presentation
• Multivariate meta-analysis presentation
• Multivariate meta-analysis example
• Inter-rater reliability presentation
• Practical example - fixed, random, & multilevel teacher expectancy presentation
• Teacher expectancy meta-analysis example

The Introduction to Meta-analysis Workshop was held on 2 June, 2008. The PowerPoint presentation (by Marsh, O'Mara, and Malmberg) can be downloaded by clicking here, and the .xls spreadsheet referred to in the slides can be downloaded from here.

Please appropriately reference these materials or acknowledge the authors if you cite or use the materials.

Email any enquiries to: self.research@education.ox.ac.uk