Evidence-based Decision Making: Enhancing Systematic Reviews of Program Evaluation Results in Europe

Evaluation

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 95-109

  Shadish, William R ^a   Chacón Moscoso, Salvador ^b   Sánchez Meca, Julio ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Campbell Collaboration; experiment; meta analysis; program evaluation; quasi experiment; systematic review

Indexed keywords

EID: 30444452968     PISSN: 13563890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1356389005053196     Document Type: Article

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