Carole Torgerson is Reader in Evidence-based Education at the University of York, UK.

• The nature of evidence; What is a systematic review?; Defining the research question; The scoping review; Designing the search strategy; Which databases are best for educational research?; Data extraction forms and double data extraction; Quality assurance of studies; Qualitative synthesis of quantitative data; Pooling data in meta-analysis; Detailed worked examples of recent systematic review undertaken by the author in the field of educational research.