Researcher Development Initiative -

Meta Analysis Workshop Materials

Throughout 2008, Prof. Herb Marsh, Ms. Alison O’Mara, and Dr. Lars-Erik Malmberg 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.

- 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.

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