The use of effect size in systematic review involves:

a. combining the effect sizes of various studies to compute the overall effect of a given intervention on a given target behavior even when the various studies employed different tools to measure the common dependent variable
b. individually looking at the effect sizes of various studies to compute the overall effect of a given intervention on a given target behavior when the various studies employed different tools to measure the common dependent variable
c. combining the effect sizes of various studies to compute the overall effect of a given intervention on a given target behavior only when the various studies employed the same tools to measure the common dependent variable
d. combining the effect sizes of random studies to compute the individual effect of a given intervention on a given target behavior even when the various studies employed different tools to measure the common dependent variable


Ans: A

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