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Version 1.2 – Updated June 2023

Friendship

Overview

  • Influence: Friendship
  • Domain: Classroom
  • Sub-Domain: Classroom climate
  • Potential to Accelerate Student Achievement: Likely to have positive impact
  • Influence Definition: The role friends can play to the social and emotional well-being, collaboration, academic achievement, and social status in a classroom.

Evidence

  • Number of meta-analyses: 3
  • Number of studies: 60
  • Number of students: 0
  • Number of effects: 229
  • Weighted mean effect size: 0.35
  • Robustness index: 2

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 Psychology Review Wentzel, Jablansky, & Scalise USA Do friendships afford academic benefits? A meta-analytic study 2018 Friendship 22 0 81 0.29
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin Chung, Lount, Park, & Park USA Friends with performance benefits: A meta-analysis on the relationship between friendship and group performance. 2018 Friendship groups in collaborative learning 26 0 26 0.31
Evaluation in Education Ide, Parkerson, Haertel, & Walberg USA Peer Influences 1980 Peer influences on achievement 12 0 122 0.53
TOTAL/AVERAGE 60 0 229 0.38
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