Claims

Associations with school belonging are generally stronger in rural than urban locations

Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study · quant-synthesis r? · q3
Currency · newest study 2018 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims

Reading the evidence codes

q is the design tier, i the impact, n the sample, and the kind with its r the rigour judged within that kind: what each code means.

This claim: no standardized effect is recorded in observations/ for it yet, so no benchmark reading is possible.

q3 i? The strength of the associations between the themes and school belonging varied by geographic location, generally stronger in rural than in urban locations. → Allen 2018

Evidence

Allen 2018

Allen, K., Kern, M.L., Vella-Brodrick, D., Hattie, J., & Waters, L. (2018). What Schools Need to Know About Fostering School Belonging: a Meta-analysis. Educational Psychology Review, 30, 1–34. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-016-9389-8

q3 · i? · quant-synthesis · r?

Moderator analysis within the meta-analysis of 51 studies (N = 67,378). The article reports effects were "generally stronger in rural than in urban locations"; no effect size is printed in the available text.

"Results varied by geographic location, with effects generally stronger in rural than in urban locations."

Discussion

Learner Variables

- Teacher support is among the strongest predictors of school belonging — the general claim this finding bears on, with the studies behind it

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type claim
id belonging-effects-stronger-rural-than-urban
title Associations with school belonging are generally stronger in rural than urban locations
description Associations with school belonging are generally stronger in rural than urban locations
status review
evidence_strength moderate
newest_evidence 2018
generated by process:wiki-ingest on 2026-10-14
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