International Guide to Student Achievement

The International Guide to Student Achievement brings together and critically examines the major influences shaping student achievement today. There are many, often competing, claims about how to enhance student achievement, raising the questions of "What works?" and "What works best?" World-renowned bestselling authors, John Hattie and Eric M. Anderman have invited an international group of scholars to write brief, empirically-supported articles that examine predictors of academic achievement across a variety of topics and domains. Rather than telling people what to do in their schools and classrooms, this guide simply provides the first-ever compendium of research that summarizes what is known about the major influences shaping students’ academic achievement around the world. Readers can apply this knowledge base to their own school and classroom settings. The 150+ entries serve as intellectual building blocks to creatively mix into new or existing educational arrangements and aim for quick, easy reference. Chapter authors follow a common format that allows readers to more seamlessly compare and contrast information across entries, guiding readers to apply this knowledge to their own classrooms, their curriculums and teaching strategies, and their teacher training programs.

Introduction J. Hattie & E. Anderman Section 1. Understanding Achievement E. Anderman & J. Hattie 1.1 Defining student achievement Thomas R. Guskey 1.2 Academic Achievement: An Elementary School Perspective Alan Bates, Rena Shifflet & Miranda Lin 1.3 Academic Achievement: An Adolescent Perspective R. Trent Haines & Christian E. Mueller 1.4 Adult Education and Achievement M Cecil Smith 1.5 Academic Achievement: A Higher Education Perspective Terrell L. Strayhorn 1.6 Developmental Education for Adults and Academic Achievement Joshua D. Hawley & Shu Chen Chiang Section 2. Influences from the Student Mimi Bong 2.1 Entry to School Collette Tayler 2.2 Piagetian Approaches Philip Adey & Michael Shayer 2.3 Entry to Tertiary Education Emer Smyth 2.4 Physical activity Janet Clinton 2.5 Gender influences Judith Gill 2.6 Engagement and Opportunity to Learn Phillip L. Ackerman 2.7 Behavioral Engagement in Learning Jennifer Fredricks 2.8 Goal Setting and Academic Achievement Dominique Morisano & Edwin A. Locke 2.9 Self Reported Grades and GPA Marcus Credé & Nathan R. Kuncel 2.10. Conceptual Change Stella Vosniadou & Panagiotis Tsoumakis 2.11 Social motivation and academic motivation Tim Urdan 2.12 Attitudes and dispositions Robert D. Renaud 2.13 Personality influences Meera Komarraju 2.14 Academic self-concept Herbert W. Marsh & Marjorie Seaton 2.15 Self efficacy Mimi Bong 2.16 Motivation Dale H. Schunk & Carol A. Mullen 2.17 Friendship in school Annemaree Carroll, Stephen Houghton & Sasha Lynn 2.18 Indigenous and Other Minoritized Students Russell Bishop 2.19 Low Academic Success David A. Bergin 2.20 Learning Difficulties in School R. Allan Allday & Mitchell L. Yell Section 3. Influences from the Home Andrew Martin 3.1 Resident and Non-Resident Fathers William Jeynes 3.2 Home Environment Burkhard Gniewosz & Jacquelynne S. Eccles 3.3 Socioeconomic Status and Student Achievement Jeanne Brooks-Gunn & Erin Bamgarner 3.4 Welfare Policies Lisa A. Gennetian & Pamela A. Morris 3.5 Family-School Partnerships and Academic Achievement Andrew J. Martin 3.6 Parent Involvement in Learning Wendy S. Grolnick, Jacquelyn N. Raftery, & Elizabeth S. Flamm 3.7 Maternal Employment and Achievement Rachel G. Lucas-Thompson & Wendy A. Goldberg 3.8 Television and Academic Achievement Andrew J. Martin Section 4. Influences from the School Catherine Bradshaw 4.1 Charter Schools and Academic Achievement Ann Allen 4.2 Ability Grouping Ed Baines 4.3 Evaluating and Improving Student-Teacher Interactions Anne H. Cash & Bridget K. Hamre 4.4 Mixed-grade elementary-school classes and student achievement Linley Cornish 4.5 School-Based Mental Health Erin Dowdy, Matthew P. Quirk, & Jenna K. Chin 4.6 Achievement in Faith-Based Schools L. Mickey Fenzel 4.7 Class size John Hattie 4.8 Financing Schools Eric A. Hanushek 4.9 Influences of School Layout and Design on Student Achievement C. Kenneth Tanner 4.10 Grade Retention Shane R. Jimerson & Jacqueline A. Brown 4.11 Inclusive Education Geoff Lindsay 4.12 School-wide Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports and Academic Achievement Kent Mcintosh, Sophie V. Ty, Robert H. Horner, & George Sugai 4.13 School Connectedness Clea Mcneely 4.14 Teacher Mentoring, Coaching, and Consultation Elise T. Pas & Daniel S. Newman 4.15 The Link between Student Mobility and Academics Bess Rose & Catherine P. Bradshaw 4.16 Service Learning Shelley H. Billig 4.17 Single-Sex Schools and Academic Achievement Shirley L. Yu & Isabel Rodriguez-Hejazi 4.18 Summer School and Student Achievement in the United States Jordan D. Matsudaira 4.19 Within Class Grouping: Arguments, Practices, and Research Evidence Yiping Lou 4.20 Special Education and Academic Achievement Benjamin Zablotsky & Michael S. Rosenberg 4.21 Social and Emotional Learning and Academic Achievement Jessika Zmuda & Catherine P. Bradshaw 4.22 Middle School Transitions Eric M. Anderman Section 5: Influences from the classroom Julianne Turner 5.1 Classroom Instructional Contexts Debra K. Meyer 5.2 Academic Motivation and Achievement in Classrooms Lynley H. Anderman 5.3 Elementary Classroom Management Inge R. Poole & Carolyn M. Evertson 5.4 Emotion and Achievement in the Classroom Thomas Goetz & Nathan C. Hall 5.5 Secondary Classroom Management Anne Gregory & Jennifer R. Jones 5.6 Homework and Academic Achievement Jianzhong Xu 5.7 The Role of Formative Assessment in Student Achievement Aryn C. Karpinski & Jerome V. D’Agostino 5.8 Peer Influences in Elementary School Gary W. Ladd 5.9 Acceleration for all Henry M. Levin & Pilar Soler 5.10 Ability grouping Janet Ward Schofield 5.11 Collaboration in the Classroom Noreen M. Webb Section 6. Influences from the teacher Anita Woolfolk 6.1 Teacher-student relationships Heather A. Davis 6.2 National Board for Professional Teaching Standards Mary E. Dilworth 6.3 Classroom Management and Student Achievement Jerry Freiberg 6.4 Fostering Student Creativity in the Era of High-Stakes Testing Bree Frick 6.5 Nontraditional Teacher Preparation Belinda G. Gimbert 6.6 Quality of Teaching Laura Goe 6.7 Methods for Studying Teacher and Teaching Effectiveness Alexander Gröschner, Tina Seidel & Richard J. Shavelson 6.8 Teachers’ Expectations Lee Jussim 6.9 Teacher Enthusiasm and Student Learning Melanie Keller, Knut Neumann & Hans E. Fischer 6.10 Teachers’ Cultural and Professional Identities and Student Outcomes Revathy Kumar & Linda Alvarado 6.11 Teacher intelligence: What is it and why do we care? Andrew J Mceachin & Dominic J Brewer 6.12 Pedagogical Content Knowledge Julie Gess-Newsome 6.13 Teacher Beliefs about Teaching and Learning:The Role of Idea-Oriented Pedagogy Richard Prawat 6.14 School Reform Linda Valli & Carla Finkelstein 6.15 Teacher Efficacy John A. Ross 6.16 Teachers’ Epistemological Beliefs and Achievement Gregory Schraw, Joanne Brownlee & Lori Olafson 6.17 Teacher Motivation and Student Achievement Outcomes H.M.G. Watt & P.W. Richardson 6.18 The Relation of Teacher Characteristics to Student Achievement Xin Ma Section 7. Influences from the curriculum Rayne Sperling 7.1 Values Education Programs Terence Lovat 7.2 Activity-Based Learning Strategies Kira J. Carbonneau & Scott C. Marley 7.3 Bilingual Education Programs and Student Achievement Jill Fitzgerald & Jackie Eunjung Relyea-Kim 7.4 Intelligent Tutors—Strategy Types Bonnie J. F. Meyer 7.5 Creativity and Creativity Programs Heather L. Hammond, Lauren E. Skidmore, Amanda Wilcox-Herzog & James C. Kaufman 7.6 Outdoor Education Justin Dillon 7.7 Role of Discussion in Reading Comprehension Ian A. G. Wilkinson & Kathryn Nelson 7.8 The Impact of Calculators on Student Achievement in the K-12 Mathematics Classroom Aimee J. Ellington 7.9 Second Language Vocabulary Yongqi Gu 7.10 Language Teaching Curricula Eli Hinkel 7.11 Measurement of History Achievement in the United States and Europe Mark Smith, Joel Breakstone, Sam Wineburg 7.12 Reading: Phonics Instruction William E. Tunmer & Alison W. Arrow 7.13 Repeated Reading William J. Therrien & Sarah J. Watt 7.14 Reading: Sentence Combining: Grammar Programs Bruce Saddler & Nicole Bak 7.15 Extra-curricular activities in secondary schools Boaz Shulruf & Grace Ying Wang 7.16 Improving Academic Achievement with Social Skills Frank M. Gresham, Michael J. Vance, & Jeffrey Chenier 7.17 Visual Perception Programs Barbara Hanna Wasik, Adrienne N. Villagomez, Sheena Berry & Sandra B. Evarrs 7.18 Reading: Vocabulary Programs Wilson, A., Jesson, R & McNaughton, S. 7.19 Achievement in Adolescent Health Education Megan Sanders, Rashea Hamilton & Eric M. Anderman 7.20 Writing Achievement Mark Torrance & Raquel Fidalgo 7.21 Reading: Comprehension Programs Janice F. Almasi & Barbara Martin Palmer 7.22 Response to Intervention: The Sum is Greater than Its Parts Paul J. Riccomini & Grego

John Hattie is Professor and Director of the Melbourne Education Research Institute at the University of Melbourne, Australia and Honorary Professor at the University of Auckland. The author of the international bestsellers Visible Learning and Visible Learning for Teachers, he has served as President of the International Text Commission, and associate editor of the British Journal of Educational Psychology. He has published and presented over 550 papers and has supervised 160 theses students. Eric Anderman is Professor of Educational Psychology and Chair of the Department of Educational Studies at The Ohio State University. In 1999 he was awarded the Richard E. Snow Early Career Achievement Award from the American Psychological Association (APA) and he served as President of Division 15 of APA in 2008. In addition to authoring and editing several books, he has served on the editorial boards of several major journals and as the Associate Editor of the Journal of Educational Psychology from 2002-2009.