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Carman, Carol A. – Journal of Advanced Academics, 2013
The lack of a unified definition of giftedness leads researchers to use very different operationalizations when selecting a sample of gifted individuals for use in research. We found 104 empirical articles from 38 journals that differentiated between gifted and nongifted students which were analyzed to determine the most common methods of…
Descriptors: Gifted, Educational Research, Educational History, Bibliometrics
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Ahn, Soyeon; Ames, Allison J.; Myers, Nicholas D. – Review of Educational Research, 2012
The current review addresses the validity of published meta-analyses in education that determines the credibility and generalizability of study findings using a total of 56 meta-analyses published in education in the 2000s. Our objectives were to evaluate the current meta-analytic practices in education, identify methodological strengths and…
Descriptors: Inferences, Meta Analysis, Educational Practices, Research Methodology
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Franic, Duska M.; Bothe, Anne K. – American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 2008
Purpose: This study assessed the psychometric properties of instruments used to measure constructs similar to stuttering-specific health-related quality of life. In the stuttering literature, most such instruments were originally intended to measure speakers' attitudes about, or reactions to, their stuttering. Method: Seventeen instruments were…
Descriptors: Stuttering, Quality of Life, Validity, Psychometrics