Abstract
This study examined the effect of school culture on student achievement . Firstly, a pool (303 studies) was formed of all studies which included the phrases “school culture ” and “student achievement/success ” in their titles. The abstracts of these studies were examined and 71 were found appropriate for the study. In the second phase, all 71 studies in the pool were examined in detail. As a result, 51 of the studies were found appropriate for inclusion, and the final sample included 66,391 subjects. The impact value of school culture on student achievement was found to be 0.49. This result shows that school culture has a medium level effect on student achievement. The moderators identified for the study were (i) type of publication , (ii) sample group , (iii) school subject or assessment type, (iv) tools of data collection, (v) the year of the studies, (vi) the country in which the research took place and (vii) sub-dimensions of school culture , of which data collection tools and the year of the studies are moderators for the positive effect of school culture on student achievement .
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Koçyiğit, M. (2017). The Effect of School Culture on Student Achievement. In: Karadag, E. (eds) The Factors Effecting Student Achievement. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56083-0_11
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