Identify and discuss the steps in meta-analysis as provided by Wells.
What will be an ideal response?
? Conceptualizing and specifying clearly the content of the research problem and its basic terms
? Searching the literature and selecting a representative set of studies relevant to the review
? Building a base of relevant data for the review by summarizing, describing, and coding the features of separate studies and translating them into comparable categories and terms
? Analyzing the database of studies for patterns of significant effects and for theoretically meaningful correlations
? Providing a summary description of the results and some evaluation
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