Sorting the wheat from the chaff: What makes for good evidence of effectiveness in the literature in gifted education?

Gifted Child Quarterly

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 305-319

  Callahan, Carolyn M ^a   Moon, Tonya R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Judging evidence; Meta analyses; Research quality

Indexed keywords

EID: 35048854592     PISSN: 00169862     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0016986207306317     Document Type: Article

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