Conducting a Literature Review
There are several stages involved in conducting a systematic literature review.
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Select research questions
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Select bibliographic databases and websites
- Choose search terms
- Apply Practical Screening
- Content covered
- Yeaars searched
- Language
- Setting
- Participants
- Interventions or programmes
- Outcomes studied
- Research design
- Methodological Quality Screening
- Criterion for Quality – Evaluate Study’s Research Design
- Design type – true, self-control, observational, etc.
- Threats to Internal Validity:
- Risks to External Validity:
- Criterion for Quality – Evaluate Study’s Sampling
- Eligibility of subjects
- Methods of sampling
- Sample size
- Response rate
- Criterion for Quality – Evaluate Study’s Data collection
- Reliability
- Validity
- Intervention/programme quality
- Criterion for Quality – Evaluate Study’s Data analysis
- Criterion for Quality – Evaluate Study’s Results
- Criterion for Quality – Evaluate Study’s Conclusions
- Based on study
- Methodological limitations
- Synthesise Results of Literature Review
- Describe current knowledge about topic
- Support need for and significance of new research
- Explain research findings
- Describe quality of current research
- Produce Descriptive Review or Perform Meta-Analysis
For an in depth discussion of this see::
Fink, Arlene. (2005)j. Conducting research literature reviews: From the internet to paper, 2nd edition. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications.
Systematic Literature Reviews
Take a look at this presentation on literature reviews.
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