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