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

• 1) The nature of evidence2) What is a systematic review?3) Defining the research question4) The scoping review5) Designing the search strategy6) Which databases are best for educational research?7) Data extraction forms and double data extraction8) Quality assurance of studies9) Qualitative synthesis of quantitative data10) Pooling data in meta-analysis11) Detailed worked examples of recent systematic review undertaken by the author in the field of educational research