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.
Evidence
- Number of meta-analyses: 3
- Number of studies: 99
- Number of students: 6,497
- Number of effects: 99
- Weighted mean effect size: 0.73
- Robustness index: 2
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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| TOTAL/AVERAGE | 99 | 6,497 | 99 | 0.85 | |||||