I am doing research on the optimum age of learning a foreign language based on cognitive development. I analyzed several relevant articles and now I need to merge them, but the findings are complex and different in terms of style and length. How I could merge them to answer my research questions? Is there any strategy to do so?
Even though this article is from the field of medicine, it provides some simple and robust rules for combining multiple studies/articles/findings to do a good interpretive meta-analysis:
Article Ten simple rules for carrying out and writing meta-analyses
Following article has identified five ways of presenting qualitative findings in research articles , Kindly refer...
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Researchers are developing strategies for undertaking qualitative research with trials. This involves qualitative research being included in procedures and practices associated with trials, for example having standard operating procedures within clinical trials units and publishing protocols for the process evaluation as well as the trial. These developments highlight the growing status of combining qualitative research with trials and its establishment as a normal and acceptable practice. These developments are welcome if they attend to maintaining the emergent and flexible aspects of qualitative research in contrast to the highly protocolised world of RCTs. Established trial methodology may also be affected by accumulated understanding from qualitative research about how interventions and trials operate in the real world. A very helpful contribution to the literature is researcher reflections on undertaking this type of research, based on personal experience,or methodological perspective. Finally, systematic reviewers interested in explaining the heterogeneity of trial results want to study the qualitative research undertaken with included trials.
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