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Version 1.3 – Updated November 2024

Immigrant status

Overview

  • Influence: Immigrant status
  • Domain: Home
  • Sub-Domain: Family resources
  • Potential to Accelerate Student Achievement: Likely to have a small positive impact
  • Influence Definition: The immigration status of students and/or their parents.

Evidence

  • Number of meta-analyses: 2
  • Number of studies: 104
  • Number of students: 224,197
  • Number of effects: 125
  • Weighted mean effect size: 0.05
  • Robustness index: 2

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
Review of Educational Research Duong, Badaly, Liu, Schwartz, McCarty USA Generational differences in academic achievement among immigrant youths: A meta-analytic 2016 Recent vs previous generation immigrants 53 0 74 0.01
European Psychologist Dimitrova, Chasiotis, & van de Vijver Sweden Adjustment outcomes of immigrant children and youth in Europe: A meta-analysis. 2018 Immigrant children on achievement 51 224,197 51 0.09
TOTAL/AVERAGE 104 224,197 125 0.05
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