01978nam a2200265Ia 450000500170000000800410001724500900005810000170014826000360016525000080020130000180020930000110022750000480023802000180028665000260030465000250033065000300035505000220038554600120040750503490041952009090076833600090167733700150168633800110170120260803094101.0251212s2005    xx            000 0 und d1 aConducting Research literature reviews : bFrom the internet to paper /cArlene Fink.  aFink, Arlene  aCalifornia :bSAGE pub.,c2005.  a2nd  axiii, 243 p.:  c23 cm.  aIncludes bibliographic references and index  a1-4129-0904-x  aResearchxMethodology  aResearchxEvaluation  aBibliographyxMethodology  a001.42 F49c c2005  aEnglish  aReviewing the Literature: Why? For Whom? How?; Searching and Screening: The Practical Screen and Methodological Quality (Part 1: Research Design and Sampling); Searching and Screening: Methodological Quality (Part 2-Data Collection, Interventions, Analysis, Results, and Conclusions); Doing the Review; What did you Find?: Synthesizing Results.  aConducting Research Literature Reviews, Second Edition shows readers how to identify, interpret, and analyze published and unpublished research literature. Through the use of checklists, case examples, and exercises, author Arlene Fink unravels the intricacies of Selecting questions to maximize the efficiency of the review. Identifying subject headings and key words for electronic searches. Identifying the most appropriate databases, including supplementing computer and Web-based searches. Dealing with unpublished studies. Setting inclusion and exclusion criteria. Justifying methods for reviewing only the `highest quality` literature. Preparing a structured literature abstraction form. Ensuring the reliability and validity of the review. Synthesizing and reporting results. Conducting and evaluating descriptive literature reviews. How to understand and evaluate the principles of meta-analysis  aText  aUnmediated  aVolume