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Version 1.3 – Updated November 2024

Attitude towards content domains

Overview

  • Influence: Attitude towards content domains
  • Domain: Student
  • Sub-Domain: Motivational approach/orientation
  • Potential to Accelerate Student Achievement: Potential to accelerate
  • Influence Definition: A student's attitudes towards particular content domains (e.g., math, science, social studies, reading, etc.).

Evidence

  • Number of meta-analyses: 4
  • Number of studies: 351
  • Number of students: 382,523
  • Number of effects: 523
  • Weighted mean effect size: 0.45
  • 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
Journal of Research in Reading Petscher USA A meta-analysis of the relationship between student attitudes towards reading and achievement in reading 2010 Attitude to reading and achievement 32 224,615 118 0.32
Book Sölpük Turkey The Effect of Attitude on Student Achievement 2017 Attitude 90 78,015 90 0.87
Educational Research Review Fong & Krou USA LASSI's great adventure: A meta-analysis of the Learning and Study Strategies Inventory and academic outcomes 2021 Attitude 178 71,853 264 0.25
Language Learning Masgoret & Gardner New Zealand Attitudes, motivation, and second language learning: A meta-analysis of studies conducted by Gardner and associates 2003 Attitudes to ESL 51 8,040 51 0.47
TOTAL/AVERAGE 351 382,523 523 0.48
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