Mobility
Overview
- Influence: Mobility
- Domain: Home
- Sub-Domain: Home environment
- Potential to Accelerate Student Achievement: Likely to have a negative impact
- Influence Definition: Movement among students across classroom, school, or district.
Evidence
- Number of meta-analyses: 4
- Number of studies: 186
- Number of students: 203,463
- Number of effects: 545
- Weighted mean effect size: -0.38
- Robustness index: 4
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 | Jones | USA | The relationship of student achievement to mobility in the elementary school | 1989 | Mobility and achievement | 93 | 51,057 | 141 | -0.50 |
| Dissertation | Mehana | USA | A meta-analysis of school mobility effects on reading and math achievement in the elementary grades | 1997 | Mobility and achievement | 26 | 2,889 | 45 | -0.24 |
| Community/Junior College Quarterly of Research and Practice | Diaz | USA | Effects of transfer on academic performance of Community College students at the four-year institution | 1992 | Moving from community college to 4-yr institutions | 62 | 131,689 | 354 | -0.28 |
| Journal of Family Psychology | Card, Bosch, Casper, Wiggs, Hawkins, Schlomer & Borden | USA | A meta-analytic review of internalizing, externalizing, and academic adjustment among children of deployed military service members | 2011 | Military deployed and achievement | 5 | 17,828 | 5 | -0.16 |
| TOTAL/AVERAGE | 186 | 203,463 | 545 | -0.29 | |||||