Multiple Choice
Reed R. Rabbit is interested in whether phonics or whole-word instruction more effectively teaches children how to read. He decides to do a meta-analysis of prior studies. Which of the following issues should concern him when doing this meta-analysis?
A) Whole-word instruction subsumes a number of different strategies.
B) Experimental studies yield different effect sizes than comparative studies.
C) Few studies have been published that compare the two instructional approaches.
D) Some studies report correlation coefficients (r) whereas others report a mean difference (d) .
E) a, b, and c
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