Belonging
Overview
- Influence: Belonging
- Domain: Classroom
- Sub-Domain: Classroom climate
- Potential to Accelerate Student Achievement: Potential to accelerate
- Influence Definition: The extent to which students feel respected, included, accepted, and encouraged by others in the social environment of school. Also called "school connectedness," this affective relationship to the culture of school has been shown to shape a student's emotional, behavioral, and cognitive engagement with schooling.
Evidence
- Number of meta-analyses: 3
- Number of studies: 97
- Number of students: 76,446
- Number of effects: 174
- Weighted mean effect size: 0.46
- Robustness index: 3
Meta-Analyses
| Journal Title | Author | First Author's Country | Article Name | Year Published | Variable | Number of Studies | Number of Students | Number of Effects | Effect Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Educational Psychology Review | Allen, Kern, Vella-Brodrick, Hattie, & Waters | Australia | What schools need to know about fostering school belonging: A meta-analysis. | 2016 | Belonging on achievement | 51 | 67,378 | 114 | 0.56 |
| Educational Research Review | Nurmi | Finland | Students' Characteristics and Teacher-Child Relationships in Instruction: A Meta-Analysis | 2012 | Closeness and lack of teacher-student conflict on achievement | 19 | 9,068 | 19 | 0.20 |
| Dissertation | Moallem | USA | A Meta-Analysis of School Belonging and Academic Success and Persistence | 2013 | Belonging on achievement | 27 | 0 | 41 | 0.45 |
| TOTAL/AVERAGE | 97 | 76,446 | 174 | 0.40 | |||||