Promote a Sense of Home

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Evidence · 10 claims (7 for, 3 mixed) · 11 studies (4 qualitative, 2 causal, 2 review, 2 theoretical, 1 quant-synthesis), q1–q3 · 0 of 11 report an effect size · 8 claims rest on one study

Description

Promote a sense of home is the element of creating belonging, familiarity, and social warmth within a learning environment.

Affordances

• Holistic Learning
• Community-Based Learning

Claims

• Students perceive that interacting with others in experiential learning fosters empathy and a sense of community by enhancing perspective-taking (beauty) [+W]
• Students with a stronger sense of belonging tend to show more academic self-confidence, motivation, engagement and achievement (review reports Pedler et al.) [+W]
• Strengthening the student-educator relationship can contribute positively to marginalised students' self-efficacy and sense of belonging in higher education [+W]
• Belonging Interventions Improve Outcomes [+S]
• Social engagement in gateway math courses builds confidence and deepens understanding, dependent on faculty fostering a supportive learning environment [~W]
• A sense of belonging is firmly linked with improved student attainment, increased learners' satisfaction and reduced attrition rates in campus-based learning [+W]
• Students in three consortium districts reported positive experiences with the cross-grade mentorship program and with campus social workers [~W]
• Belonging is multi-faceted and context-dependent, with different expressions (group membership, momentary feeling, durable sense) often conflated in research [~W]

The evidence by question

• Does a brief intervention that frames doubts about belonging as common and temporary improve learners' persistence and grades, and for whom? Belonging Interventions Improve Outcomes [+S]
• What in a learning setting builds learners' sense of belonging? Teacher support is among the strongest predictors of school belonging [+M]
• Does a stronger sense of belonging go with more engagement, achievement and persistence? Belongingness is among the factors that most strongly and reliably affect learners' academic motivation and achievement [+M]

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