More ideas...

I've been looking through journals a lot tonight to find articles, and some other possible topics for your meta could be:

a) effects of living in institutional/foster care on children's acheivement/health ec.
b) long term efficiacy of early intervention programs.
c) relations between theory of mind and social competence at different ages.
d) relations between context and development of self in children of different ages.

I'll keep posting...if you have ideas, why don't you post them as well???

cheers,
Maureen

Coding in Excel

Hi everyone,
I don't think that I like long distance learning...not when I leave just about everything I own at home. Thanks to your very gentle, kind requests, I realize that before I left, I didn't send out the excel file to you with the codes for entering the data! So I will do this on Wednesday night when I get home. If you don't have time to do it before Monday, then we will do it in class.

I truly appreciate all your patience with this!!!

Best wishes,
Maureen

for Lorraine

Hi Lorraine,
I've just responded to your email, but just in case this is where you are looking for a response, see below:
The first article: Hughes, doesn't have a comparison or control group.
Boscardin et al., also has no control/comparison group. Mason et al. has 5th graders (too old)

Nicole Conrad is a Yes!! #1; Vadasay is also a yes #2,,, now, I'll help you find one more..
(I just got home from the conference meeting...will have a cup of tea and get back to this..)
Best,
Maureen

More possible topics

Greetings...one thing that a conference is good for is stimulating ideas...here are some more possible topics for you to consider for your meta-analysis...

1. Review of research on professional development for teachers (generally, or pick an area...but I'd check first to make sure that there is enough research that has control/comparison groups)

2. Review of longitudinal early intervention programs.

3. **** hot topic *** review of research on Aboriginal education program/activity effectiveness

4. Correlates of social anxiety in school aged children

5. does IQ matter? Relationship of IQ to intervention outcomes for children with developmental disabilities?

6. Does age of entry to educational programs to increase 2nd (or 3rd) language proficiency matter?


I will think of more!
Best,
Maureen

For Jamie

Hi Jamie..
Only 1 (the Zipka, Ehri and Cairns article) out of the 4 articles from your list meet criteria for you to code (the other studies did not have sufficient data to calculate effect sizes/were not interventions):

Here are 2 more for you to code:
Roberts, Theresa A.; Home Storybook reading in primary or secondary language... Reading Research Quarterly, Vol 43(2), Apr-Jun, 2008. pp. 103-130. [Journal Article]

Reitsma, Pieter; Wesseling, Ralph; Effects of computer-assisted training of blending skills in kindergartners.Scientific Studies of Reading, Vol 2(4), 1998. pp. 301-320.
(I know that this one is older, but we missed it in our earlier search!)

Best,
Maureen

For Cassandra

Hi Cassandra,

Here are 2 articles from your list for you to code (the other 2 would not work):

Two-way and monolingual English immersion in preschool education: an experimental comparison

                Volume 22, Issue 3

                Barnett, Yarosz, Thomas, Jung and Blanco

 

Preliminary evidence for the impact of mixed-income preschools on low-income children’s language growth

                Volume 22, issue 1

                Schechter, Bye

Here is one more that I found from EChildhood quarterly that may work...

Barnett, W. Steven; Jung, Kwanghee; Yarosz, Donald J.; Thomas, Jessica; Hornbeck, Amy; Stechuk, Robert; Burns, Susan; Early Childhood Research Quarterly, Vol 23(3), 2008. pp. 299-313.  

(Randomized control of "Tools of the Mind").,

thanks!

Maureen

For Claudia

Hi Claudia,
I couldn't open the webarchive files you sent to me; however, the one pdf worked fine and it is an article that you can code.  If you send me pdf's or the citations of the other articles, I will let you know about them as well.
1.  Winsler, A. School readiness gains made by ethnically diverse children in poverty
attending center-based childcare and public school pre-kindergarten
programs

Best,
Maureen

I AM HERE....

You are a very conscientious group!!  I'm sorry for the delay in response.  I am going to post your articles to review to this blog, because if you sent me EBSCO results by email, I don't have your email address.  I will only ask you to code 3 articles for next class; please spend the rest of the time thinking about your own Meta-analysies....here are some potential topics:

1.  How do children with ADHD and ADHD with reading disabilities differ with respect to cognition and outcomes:  Implications for the DSM V.

2.  Face processing of children with Autism spectrum disorder....(i.e., review of how children with autism differ from their typical peers on measures of face processing).

3.  Mathematics disabilites:  review of interventions to support children with math disabilities.

4.  Effects of anxiety on academic and social outcomes of children.....for this review you would have to seek out literature in the medical databases as well.

5. Differences between ADHD inattentive and ADHD hyperactivity with respect to cognition and academic outcomes:  Implications for the DSM V.

6.  Attention and autism  (review of articles that investigate attention abilities of children with autism compared to typically developing children).

7.  Measuring motivation for different groups of children with academic challenges (I'm not sure about this one, but you could compare what is known about motivation and learning of children with different types of learning disabilities...hot topic right now)

8.  Interventions for adults with learning disabilities:  A critical synthesis....see Journal of Ld Special Issue 43, 2 for a start...check out reference lists.

Hopefullly, this is a start....post some ideas that you might like to pursue and I'll respond!  I promise!

Maureen

For Dianne

Hi Dianne,
I just wanted to let you know that I received your EBSCO results and here are 3 articles to code:
1. Stephanson, Parrila, Rauno K., Georgiou, George K. Kirby, John R:
Effects of Home Literacy, Parents' Beliefs, and Children's Task-Focused Behavior on Emergent Literacy and Word Reading Skills.
2. Evans, M. Preschoolers' Attention to Print During Shared Book Reading.
3.  Wise, J. The Growth of Phonological Awareness by Children With Reading Disabilities: A Result of Semantic Knowledge or Knowledge of Grapheme-Phoneme Correspondences?
all of these articles have data that seem to be fine...

I couldn't respond to you by email, because the EBSCO email did not give me your email address...so I thought that this would be just as easy....

cheers,
Maureen

coding papers

Is anyone coding the papers they've recommended to Maureen. I've been waiting for Maureen to select the one's she would like us to code, but time is moving on, I haven't heard from her about the selection, and now I'm wondering if we should just go ahead. Maureen, if you are out there, please advise. Fellow classmates, should we just go ahead and code some of the papers we've selected?

Catherine

Hi Maureen,

I haven't found a lot of studies with control and comparison groups

in my journal that were about children, as opposed to adults.  I e-mailed

you the ones that I was able to find.  Did you get my e-mail?

Claudia

Hi,everyone

This is Jamie here. Nice to post something on this blog.\^0^/

This is a website that I found about the Meta-analysis:

http://www.meta-analysis.com/pages/why_do.html

Question:

1.I'm not sure which kind of the software should be used for Meta-analysis. Because I google it and I found that seems lots of open-source software could also be used. e.g. R project.

2.And I think I need a extra guidebook for this, so

Is "Meta-analysis: a guide to calibrating and combing statistical evidence" a good book for this?

Or are there any recommendations?

Thanks for Maureen's answer.:)

Articles

 Hello Maureen and fellow classmates. I've exhausted my search of the Journal of Educational Psychology, 2009, and submitted the articles I've found, to Maureen. I await Maureen's feedback regarding articles to code. I'm also enjoying an extra long weekend...no school Friday or Monday...doesn't get much better than this in May!

Welcome

Hi everyone,
Welcome to our blog....let's see if it works!

Best,
Maureen