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an approach to summarising a set of studies published separately but addressing the same research question. This is generally a statistical analysis where the meta-analysis combines quantitative results from across a range of of comparable studies identified by a systematic review to suggest an overall finding

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Former school and college science teacher, teacher educator, research supervisor, and research methods lecturer. Emeritus Professor of Science Education at the University of Cambridge.