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Light, Richard Jay was born on September 10, 1942 in New York City. Son of Solomon Julius and Muriel Light.
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Summing Up: The Science of Reviewing Research
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How can a scientist or policy analyst summarize and evaluate what is already known about a particular topic? This book offers practical guidance.
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Meta-Analysis for Explanation: A Casebook
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Social science research often yields conflicting results: Does juvenile delinquent rehabilitation work? Is teenage pregnancy prevention effective? In an effort to improve the value of research for shaping social policy, social scientists are increasingly employing a powerful technique called meta-analysis. By systematically pulling together findings of a particular research problem, meta-analysis allows researchers to synthesize the results of multiple studies and detect statistically significant patterns among them. Meta-Analysis for Explanation brings exemplary illustrations of research synthesis together with expert discussion of the use of meta-analytic techniques. The emphasis throughout is on the explanatory applications of meta-analysis, a quality that makes this casebook distinct from other treatments of this methodology. The book features four detailed case studies by Betsy Jane Becker, Elizabeth C. Devine, Mark W. Lipsey, and William R. Shadish, Jr. These are offered as meta-analyses that seek both to answer the descriptive questions to which research synthesis is traditionally directed in the health and social sciences, and also to explore how a more systematic method of explanation might enhance the policy yield of research reviews. To accompany these cases, a group of the field’s leading scholars has written several more general chapters that discuss the history of research synthesis, the use of meta-analysis and its value for scientific explanation, and the practical issues and challenges facing researchers who want to try this new technique. As a practical resource, Meta-Analysis for Explanation guides social scientists to greater levels of sophistication in their efforts to synthesize the results of social research. "This is an important book...it is another step in the continuing exploration of the wider implications and powers of meta-analytic methods." —Contemporary Psychology
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Meta-Analysis for Explanation: A Casebook by Heidi Hartmann (1994-09-15)
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Richard Jay Light
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Richard Jay Light, American Statistician, education educator. New York State Advanced College Teaching fellow, 1965; visiting fellow Center Analysis Health Practices, Harvard University School Public Health, 1977-1978; Senior Research award Spencer Foundation, Chicago, 1978-1984; research fellow Ford Foundation, New York City, 1981; recipient Paul Lazarsfeld award for contributions to science, 1992.
Education
Bachelor of Science, University of Pennsylvania, 1962; AM, University of Pennsylvania, 1964; Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1969; Doctor of Laws (honorary), University Winnipeg, Canada, 1991.
Career
Member of faculty, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, since 1969;
professor statistics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, since 1975. Director faculty studies John F. Kennedy Institute Politics, 1971-1976. Member panel children's and family policy National Academy Sciences, since 1977, chairman panelon evaluation, 1982.
Panel program evaluation Social Science Research Council, since 1977. Board dirs Huron Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, since 1971. Consultant World Bank, since 1975.
Director Harvard Assessment Seminar, Cambridge, since 1986.
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Meta-Analysis for Explanation: A Casebook
( Social science research often yields conflicting result...)
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Summing Up: The Science of Reviewing Research
(How can a scientist or policy analyst summarize and evalu...)
- Meta-Analysis for Explanation: A Casebook by Heidi Hartmann (1994-09-15)
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Meta-Analysis for Explanation: A Casebook
Membership
Trustee Buckingham, Browne and Nichols School, Cambridge, since 1977, Wellesley College, since 1998. Member policy advisory group Massachusetts Office of Children, since 1977. Board directors Fund for Improvement Post-Secondary Education, 1992-1995.
Fellow American Academy Arts and Sciences. Member American Association Higher Education Association, American Ednl. Research Association, American Sociological Association, American Evaluation Association (president 1986), Council Applied Social Research, Evaluation Research Society (Paul Lazarsfeld award 1991), American Association for Higher Education (national board), Fund for Improvement Postsecondary Education (national board).
Connections
Married Patricia Kahn, June 27, 1965. Children: Jennifer Susan, Sarah Elizabeth.
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American
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New York State Advanced College Teaching fellow, 1965. Visiting fellow Center Analysis Health Practices, Harvard University School Public Health, 1977-1978. Senior Research award Spencer Foundation, Chicago, 1978-1984. Research fellow Ford Foundation, New York City, 1981. Recipient Paul Lazarsfeld award for contributions to science, 1992.New York State Advanced College Teaching fellow, 1965. Visiting fellow Center Analysis Health Practices, Harvard University School Public Health, 1977-1978. Senior Research award Spencer Foundation, Chicago, 1978-1984.
Research fellow Ford Foundation, New York City, 1981. Recipient Paul Lazarsfeld award for contributions to science, 1992.