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Use when deciding whether a question is synthesis-worthy and RER-scale before committing to a Review of Educational Research (RER) review or meta-analysis. Tests fit and frames the contribution; it does not run the search (revedres-literature-synthesis) or write the protocol (revedres-proposal-and-commissioning).

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# Topic Selection (revedres-topic-selection)

## When to trigger

- You have a candidate review topic and need to know if it clears the RER bar
- You suspect the literature may be too thin (or too settled) to reward a synthesis
- A reviewer at RER is likely to ask "why does this field need a review now?"
- You are unsure whether the artefact belongs at RER or at AERJ / *AERA Open* / *Educational Researcher*

## The four RER fit tests

RER publishes **comprehensive, critical, integrative reviews** — not original empirical research, and not narrow stock-takes. Before investing months in a search, run the topic through four gates.

1. **Importance to education.** Does the question matter to learning, instruction, policy, equity, or educational contexts broadly — not just to a sub-specialty? RER is read across education and welcomes work from any discipline (psychology, sociology, economics, etc.) *provided it bears on education*. A question of interest only to one method club fails.
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