1. Teacher-student relationship and academic achievement in China: Evidence from a three-level meta-analysis.
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Lei, Hao, Wang, Xijing, Chiu, Ming Ming, Du, Mingfeng, and Xie, Tongwei
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ACADEMIC achievement evaluation ,TEACHER-student relationships ,PSYCHOLOGY information storage & retrieval systems ,HIGH schools ,META-analysis ,CONFIDENCE intervals ,MIDDLE schools ,MIDDLE school students ,SYSTEMATIC reviews ,POPULATION geography ,MATHEMATICS ,SEX distribution ,RESEARCH funding ,DESCRIPTIVE statistics ,ENGLISH as a foreign language ,SCHOOL children ,ELEMENTARY schools ,HIGH school students ,ERIC (Information retrieval system) ,SCIENCE ,EDUCATION - Abstract
Past studies of the relation between teacher-student relationship (TSR) and students' academic achievement (SAA) yielded mixed results, so this study determined the overall link between TSR and SAA, along with their moderators. This three-level meta-analysis of 90 independent effect sizes in 74 empirical studies of 233,961 students showed an overall positive link between TSR and SAA in China (r =.259, 95% CI = [.227;.290]). This relationship was higher in: (a) China's central region (.305) than its eastern (.238) or western regions (.166); (b) senior high school (.345), followed by junior high school (.251), then primary school (.221); (c) English (.302), followed by math (.272), Chinese (.269), and science (.202); and (d) females (B =.507) than males. These results suggest the value of improving teacher-student relationships in policies and practices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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