In the present Monte Carlo simulation study, the authors compared bias and precision of 7 sampling error corrections to the Pearson r 2 under 6 × 3 × 6 conditions (i.e., population ρ values of 0.0, 0.1, 0.3, 0.5, 0.7, and 0.9, respectively; population shapes normal, skewness = kurtosis = 1, and skewness = -1.5 with kurtosis = 3.5; ns = 10, 20, 40, 60, 100, and 200, respectively). Limited previous studies focused primarily on the efficacy only of multiple R 2 corrections applied to the Pearson r 2 . The authors' results indicate that the Pratt and the Olkin-Pratt Extended corrections more consistently provided unbiased estimates across the sample sizes, ρ values, and shape conditions that they investigated, although the Ezekiel correction arguably is also reasonable. The precisions of the estimates were homogeneous across the 108 simulation conditions. EDUCATION RESEARCHERS ARE IN the business of cumulating knowledge across studies to inform judgments about educational practices, programs and policies. And even when we are conducting a single study rather than a metaanalysis, we must apply "meta-analytic thinking" (Cumming & Finch, 2001, p. 532). Thompson (2002b) defined meta-analytic thinking as both (a) the prospective formulation of study expectations and design by explicitly invoking prior effect sizes and (b) the retrospective interpretation of new results,