NEW User Guide: An Introduction to Qualitative Meta-Synthesis
In this user guide, researchers from TERC’s Institute for Meta-Synthesis offer step-by-step guidance for building knowledge and skills in qualitative meta-synthesis methods. Topics in this FREE user guide (226 pages) include:
- Developing an effective synthesis question
- Searching for literature using forward and backward snowballing
- Developing and applying critical appraisal selection criteria
- Creating analytical memos
- Coding and conducting thematic analysis
- Writing synthesis manuscripts and grant proposals
and more!
Additional Resources
In addition to the user guide, you can access our past workshop materials and videos for free. Just click on the following link labeled “Access Resources.”
Introduction to Qualitative Meta-Synthesis Methods: Achieving STEM Equity and Inclusion
Browse the recording of our workshop (2 hours 42 minutes) from the AERA-ICPSR PEERS Hub attended by thousands of viewers.
Team Research Publications
Jaumot-Pascual N., Ong M., Silva C., Martínez-Gudapakkam A. (2021) Women of Color Leveraging Community Cultural Wealth to Persist in Computing and Tech Graduate Education: A Qualitative Meta-Synthesis, in Education Sciences, 11(12):797. https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci11120797
Jaumot-Pascual, N., Silva, C. B., Martinez-Gudapakkam, A., & Ong, M. (2021). Women of Color in Computing Graduate Education: Structural Supports and Navigation Strategies for a Hostile Culture, in 2021 Research in Equity and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing, and Technology (RESPECT), pp. 1-9. https://www.terc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/WOCinCSGraduateEd_RESPECT_NOTBlinded_FINAL.pdf
Ong, M., Jaumot-Pascual, N., & Ko, L.T. (2020). Research literature on women of color in undergraduate engineering education: A systematic thematic synthesis. Journal of Engineering Education, 109, 581–615. doi: 10.1002/jee.20345. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1002/jee.20345
Ong, M., Wright, C., Espinosa, L.L., & Orfield, G. (2011). Inside the double bind: A synthesis of empirical research on undergraduate and graduate women of color in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Harvard Educational Review, 81(2), 172-208. https://otl.wayne.edu/wider/inside_the_double_bind.pdf