Help seeking

Overview

Influence: Help seeking
Domain: Student Learning Strategies
Sub-Domain: Meta-cognitive/self-regulated learning
Potential to Accelerate Student Achievement: Potential to considerably accelerate
Influence Definition: An adaptive process whereby a person seeks external support to help progress their learning. Effective help seeking requires students to develop metacognitive skills (to think about their learning process) and a positive self-concept.

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	Lavery	New Zealand	Self-regulated learning for academic success: An evaluation of instructional techniques	2008	Help seeking	62	0	62	0.60
Educational Research Review	Dignath, Buettner, & Langfeldt	Netherlands	How can primary school students learn self-regulated learning strategies most effectively?: A meta-analysis on self-regulation training programmes	2008	Seeking help from peers	21	0	21	0.83
Japanese Psychological Review	Nakaya & Okada	Japan	An integrative review of the relationship of academic and social goals with academic help-seeking: Is seeking help always the best strategy for a student's learning	2020	Help seeking for near goals	16	6,497	16	1.12
Journal of Educational Psychology	Fong, Gonzales, Cox, & Shinn	USA	Academic Help-Seeking and Achievement of Postsecondary Students: A Meta-Analytic Investigation	2021	Help seeking	108	37,941	134	0.12
TOTAL/AVERAGE						207	44,438	233	0.67