Learning Disabilities and Anxiety: A Meta-Analysis by Jason M. Nelson and Hannah Harwood digs into the hypothesis that school aged students with learning disabilities also frequently have anxiety. Their study showed that students with learning disabilities have higher mean scores of anxiety than their peers who do not have learning disabilities. They also backed their research up with the fact that learning disabilities and emotional problems have been associated since the first conceptualizations of learning disabilities in the early 1900s, not to mention the theoretical explanations linking the two together. The research question asked if students with learning disabilities also have a high level of anxiety and if the two are somehow linked to one another, which they later found was true. The type of data needed to answer Nelson and Harwood’s research question would be demographic data because they obtained their data from different studies. The data gathering method for this research would be through public and private records since the research was obtained through 533 studies through the database search and references list reviews. Similarly, the method of data analysis would then be numeric since the research came from counting of already gathered statistics. I believe this is a very good research strategy and different from all of the others that I have looked into since it is focused on compiling previously collected data instead of gathering new data. I found the results of this study to be very interesting as well as the way in which the researchers compiled their data.

Nelson, Jason M., Harwood, Hannah. (2011). Learning Disabilities and Anxiety: A Meta-Analysis. Journal of Learning Disabilities, Vol. 44, No. 1, pp.1-96.