Judging the quality of primary research.

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How Effective Are Mentoring Programs for Youth? A Systematic Assessment of the Evidence (2011, background): “In preliminary analyses, we examined whether a range of indicators of study quality were associated with significant differences in effect size (Valentine, 2009).”
Socioeconomic inequalities and mental health problems in children and adolescents: a systematic review. (2013, background): “The study quality was defined as the fit between the goals of the study, its design, and implementation (Valentine, 2009).”
Meta-analysis in Second Language Research: Choices and Challenges (2010, background): “They can also be used to weight each study outcome, such that higher-quality studies contribute more to the meta-analytic average than do lower-quality studies (Rosenthal & DiMatteo, 2001; Valentine, 2009).”