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Version 1.2 – Updated June 2023

Immediacy

Overview

  • Influence: Immediacy
  • Domain: Teaching Strategies
  • Sub-Domain: Instructional strategies
  • Potential to Accelerate Student Achievement: Likely to have a small positive impact
  • Influence Definition: Behaviors that communicate approachability, facilitating psychological closeness by displaying a timely response to student actions.

Evidence

  • Number of meta-analyses: 1
  • Number of studies: 16
  • Number of students: 5,437
  • Number of effects: 16
  • Weighted mean effect size: 0.16
  • Robustness index: 1

Meta-Analyses

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
Communication Education Allen, Witt, Wheeless USA The role of teacher immediacy as a motivational factor in student learning: using meta-analysis to test a causal model 2006 Immediacy on cognitive outcomes 16 5,437 16 0.16
TOTAL/AVERAGE 16 5,437 16 0.16
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