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Meta-Analytic QuantCrit: Exploring the Possibilities

  • 1.  Meta-Analytic QuantCrit: Exploring the Possibilities

    Posted Feb 20, 2023 01:23 PM
    Hi! I attended this American Educational Research Association seminar last week and thought it was pretty thought provoking and made me ponder many things including what community engagement in evidence synthesis would look like in the disciplines I support. See links to video recording and slides below.

    February 17, 2023

    Meta-Analytic QuantCrit: Exploring the Possibilities

    • Speaker: Jamaal Young, Texas A&M University

    • Description: Meta-analyses of critical issues are worthwhile in the field of education because they provide evidence that informs strategies and policies to support statistically stigmatized and stereotyped students (4S). QuantCrit can guide the design, implementation, and interpretation of meta-analyses of critical issues as a research paradigm to support equitable learning outcomes. Nevertheless, I am unaware of any approaches to meta-analytic QuantCrit. Thus, the goal of this session is to set the stage for exploring how QuantCrit could be applied to meta-analytic thinking and research. To accomplish this goal, I will provide an overview of QuantCrit and its five tenets: 1) the centrality of racism; 2) numbers are not neutral; 3) categories are neither 'natural' nor given, and models that treat categories as causal often conceal the operation of power and ideology; 4) voice and insight (data cannot speak for itself); and 5) a social justice/equity orientation (Gillborn et al., 2018). I will conclude by providing specific examples of each tenet within the context of meta-analytic thinking and practice.

    • Slides

    • Video Recording

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    Amy Riegelman (she, her, hers)
    Social Sciences & Evidence Synthesis Librarian
    University of Minnesota