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Version 1.3 – Updated November 2024

Whole-school improvement programs

Overview

  • Influence: Whole-school improvement programs
  • Domain: Technology, School, and Out-of-School Strategies
  • Sub-Domain: School-wide
  • Potential to Accelerate Student Achievement: Likely to have a small positive impact
  • Influence Definition: Multi-component, multi-year improvement programs of an entire school designed to transform a school.

Evidence

  • Number of meta-analyses: 3
  • Number of studies: 117
  • Number of students: 41,706,196
  • Number of effects: 848
  • Weighted mean effect size: 0.16
  • Robustness index: 3

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
Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis Borman & D'Agostino USA Title I and Student Achievement: A Meta-Analysis of Federal Evaluation Results 1996 Evaluation of Federal Title I programs 17 41,706,196 657 0.12
Dissertation Friedrich USA Alternative education for at-risk youth: an analytical review of evaluation findings 1997 Alternative programs for at-risk youth 33 0 50 0.38
American Educational Research Journal Schueler, Asher, Larned, Mehrotra, & Pollard USA Improving low-performing schools: A meta-analysis of impact evaluation studies. 2022 Improving low performance schools 67 0 141 0.06
TOTAL/AVERAGE 117 41,706,196 848 0.19
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