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Version 1.3 – Updated November 2024

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: 7
  • Number of studies: 377
  • Number of students: 480,969
  • Number of effects: 384
  • Weighted mean effect size: 0.44
  • 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
Educational leadership Marzano & Marzano USA The key to classroom management 2003 Classroom management on achievement 100 0 5 0.52
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
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
Educational Psychologist Patall, Yates, Lee, Chen, Bhat, Lee, Bertvas, Lin, Yang, Jacobson, Harris & Hanson USA A meta-analysis of teachers' provision of structure in the classroom and students' academic competence beliefs, engagement, and achievement.  2024 Classroom management programs 80 0 80 0.11
Educational Psychologist Patall, Yates, Lee, Chen, Bhat, Lee, Bertvas, Lin, Yang, Jacobson, Harris & Hanson USA A meta-analysis of teachers' provision of structure in the classroom and students' academic competence beliefs, engagement, and achievement.  2024 Classroom intervention studies 31 0 31 0.33
Educational Psychology Review Duan, Bissaker, & Xu Australia Correlates of teachers' classroom management self-efficacy: A systematic review and meta-analysis.  2024 Management self-efficacy on achievement 87 480,000 189 0.82
TOTAL/AVERAGE 377 480,969 384 0.45
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