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Version 1.2 – Updated June 2023

Classroom management

Overview

  • Influence: Classroom management
  • Domain: Classroom
  • Sub-Domain: Classroom management
  • Potential to Accelerate Student Achievement: Potential to accelerate
  • Influence Definition: The process by which teachers maintain in their classrooms an environment of order and respect. Effective classroom management techniques depend on planning and prevention: the orderly arrangement of the physical space prior to the arrival of students; the establishment of fair and reasonable rules; the advance, moment-by-moment planning of instruction; clear and direct communication; and advance planning for the management of students.

Evidence

  • Number of meta-analyses: 4
  • Number of studies: 179
  • Number of students: 969
  • Number of effects: 84
  • Weighted mean effect size: 0.43
  • 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 leadership Marzano & Marzano USA The key to classroom management 2003 Classroom management on achievement 100 0 5 0.52
Dissertation Robinson USA A meta-analysis of the efficacy of classroom management training programs for teachers 1989 Classroom management programs 13 969 13 0.43
Campbell Systematic Reviews Oliver, Wehby, & Reschly USA Teacher classroom management practices: Effects on disruptive or aggressive student behavior. 2011 Classroom management programs 12 0 12 0.80
Review of Educational Research Korpershoek, Harms, de Boer, van Kuijk, & Doolaard Netherlands A Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Classroom Management Strategies and Classroom Management Programs on Students' Academic, Behavioral, Emotional, and Motivational Outcomes 2016 Classroom management on achievement 54 0 54 0.17
TOTAL/AVERAGE 179 969 84 0.48
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