PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Kantor, Jiří AU - Sedláčková, Dagmar AU - Marečková, Jana AU - Svobodová, Zuzana AU - Veselá, Kate-řina AU - Smrčková, Alžběta AU - Klugarová, Jitka AU - Klugar, Miloslav TI - SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS IN EDUCATION: TYPOLOGY, STANDARDIZED METHODOLOGY AND A PROCESS EXAMPLE OF CONDUCTING THEM DP - 2023 Sep 1 TA - EduPort PG - 1--18 VI - 7 IP - 2 AID - 10.21062/edp.2023.005 IS - AB - Systematic reviews are a fundamental design for evidence synthesis. Their essential features are systema-ticity, transparency and replicability. They are one of the main pillars of evidence-based education and can facilitate the use of scientific evidence in making recommendations for the education system and in deci-sion-making by practitioners. In Czech educational research, systemic reviews have not been produced so far and researchers and practitioners lack a deeper orientation on this issue. However, this unfavourable situation does not apply only to the Czech environment. A large part of foreign studies with the title of systematic review, which are published even in the best indexed pedagogical journals, are in fact rather literature reviews and contain many serious methodological problems.  Therefore, the pedagogical commu-nity needs to be educated on these issues. The aim of this paper is to introduce the importance of systemat-ic reviews in educational research, the reasons for their emergence in the context of evidence-based medi-cine, the typology of systematic reviews, explain the difference between systematic and literature/narrative reviews, and describe the different stages of systematic review development. These phases, which we doc-ument with numerous examples, include developing a prospective study protocol, searching databases and other sources (including sources of grey literature), assessing the relevance of studies, assessing the risk of bias of included studies (also called critical appraisal), synthesising data, and assessing the certainty of the evidence for the main outcomes of the systematic review. In this paper, we focus primarily on the issue of systematic reviews of effectiveness. We pay particular attention to the individual steps for data synthesis, which in the case of systematic reviews of effectiveness includes not only meta-analysis of data from in-cluded studies, but also analysis of sensitivity, subgroup analysis and assessment of the degree of hetero-geneity between studies. This is based on methodologies developed and standardised within the interna-tional organisation JBI.