Both sense of belonging and intentions to persist decline over the first academic year¶

Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study · causal r? · q3
Currency · newest study 2007 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person · overdue for a recheck since 2012: baselines and conditions change

Subclaims¶

q3 i? Across three survey waves in the first year, students' sense of belonging and their intentions to persist both declined on average. → Hausmann 2007

Evidence¶

Hausmann 2007¶

Hausmann, L.R.M., Schofield, J.W. & Woods, R.L. (2007). Sense of Belonging as a Predictor of Intentions to Persist Among African American and White First-Year College Students. Research in Higher Education. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11162-007-9052-9

q3 · i? · causal · r?

Growth curve analysis of the three-wave survey data showed that "sense of belonging and intentions to persist declined over the academic year" overall. No effect size for the decline is printed in the available text.

"Overall, sense of belonging and intentions to persist declined over the academic year."

Discussion¶

Learner Variables¶

• Belonging — outcome: instruction changes it

Related Claims¶

• Belongingness is among the factors that most strongly and reliably affect learners' academic motivation and achievement — the general claim this finding bears on, with the studies behind it

• Belonging Interventions Improve Outcomes — the general claim this finding bears on, with the studies behind it

• First-year students' sense of belonging to their university predicts intentions to persist, controlling for background variables and other persistence predictors — related
• A belonging-enhancing intervention produced a smaller decline in sense of belonging over the first year than the control groups — related
• Sixth-graders' mathematics self-concept and individual interest both decline over one school year — related