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Version 1.2 – Updated June 2023

Mobility

Overview

  • Influence: Mobility
  • Domain: Home
  • Sub-Domain: Home environment
  • Potential to Accelerate Student Achievement: Likely to have a negative impact
  • Influence Definition: Movement among students across classroom, school, or district.

Evidence

  • Number of meta-analyses: 4
  • Number of studies: 186
  • Number of students: 203,463
  • Number of effects: 545
  • Weighted mean effect size: -0.38
  • Robustness index: 4

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
Dissertation Jones USA The relationship of student achievement to mobility in the elementary school 1989 Mobility and achievement 93 51,057 141 -0.50
Journal of Family Psychology Card, Bosch, Casper, Wiggs, Hawkins, Schlomer & Borden USA A meta-analytic review of internalizing, externalizing, and academic adjustment among children of deployed military service members 2011 Military deployed and achievement 5 17,828 5 -0.16
Dissertation Mehana USA A meta-analysis of school mobility effects on reading and math achievement in the elementary grades 1997 Mobility and achievement 26 2,889 45 -0.24
Community/Junior College Quarterly of Research and Practice Diaz USA Effects of transfer on academic performance of Community College students at the four-year institution 1992 Moving from community college to 4-yr institutions 62 131,689 354 -0.28
TOTAL/AVERAGE 186 203,463 545 -0.30
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