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Version 1.3 – Updated November 2024

School climate effects

Overview

  • Influence: School climate effects
  • Domain: School
  • Sub-Domain: Leadership
  • Potential to Accelerate Student Achievement: Potential to accelerate
  • Influence Definition: School climate may include a school's physical characteristics and the relationships between parents, teachers, administrators, additional school staff and students.

Evidence

  • Number of meta-analyses: 13
  • Number of studies: 527
  • Number of students: 4,282,368
  • Number of effects: 1,138
  • Weighted mean effect size: 0.53
  • 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 Bulris USA A meta-analysis of research on the mediated effects of principal leadership on student achievement: Examining the effect size of school culture on student achievement as an indicator of teacher effectiveness. 2009 Leadership school culture on outcomes 30 3,378 152 0.74
Revista de Educacion Scheerens, Witziers & Steen Netherlands A meta-analysis of School Effectiveness studies 2013 Cooperation among school staff 28 0 83 0.04
Revista de Educacion Scheerens, Witziers & Steen Netherlands A meta-analysis of school effectiveness studies 2013 Orderly climate in school 46 0 170 0.26
Revista de Educacion Scheerens, Witziers & Steen Netherlands A meta-analysis of school effectiveness studies 2013 Monitoring of achievement 25 0 25 0.12
Revista de Educacion Scheerens, Witziers & Steen Netherlands A meta-analysis of school effectiveness studies 2013 Curriculum quality in school 25 0 43 0.29
Revista de Educacion Scheerens, Witziers & Steen Netherlands A meta-analysis of school effectiveness studies 2013 Achievement mentality in school 30 0 81 0.30
Dissertation Armstrong USA A meta-analysis of the effect of the physical education learning environment on student outcomes 2016 Physical Ed learning environment 19 2,294 19 0.37
American Anthropologist Bektas, Cogaltay, Karadag, & Ay Turkey School Culture and Academic Achievement of Students: A Meta-analysis Study 2015 School culture 25 20,287 25 0.47
Book Kocyigt Turkey The Effect of School Culture on Student Achievement 2017 School culture 51 66,391 51 1.12
Journal of Inonu University Faculty of Education Karadag, Isci, Oztekin, & Anar Turkey The relationship between school and academic achievement: A meta-analysis study 2016 School climate 62 81,233 62 0.36
Book Dulay & Karadag Turkey The Effect of School Climate on Student Achievement 2017 School climate 90 148,504 90 0.82
Educational Innovation Research Han & Lee Korea A meta-analysis of variables related to the classroom climate of elementary school students. 2018 School climate 25 0 52 1.19
Studies in Science Education Holzberger, Reinhold, Ludtke, & Seidel Germany A meta-analysis on the relationship between school characteristics and student outcomes in science and maths–evidence from large-scale studies 2020 School resources 71 3,960,281 285 0.30
TOTAL/AVERAGE 527 4,282,368 1,138 0.49
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