A Meta-Analysis of the Relationships Between Risk Factors, Protective Factors, and Academic Achievement Outcomes in Academic Resilience Research

• In Event: Student and Teacher Trauma

Abstract

Academic resilience is essential to being able to bounce back from adverse circumstances and maintaining positive psychological and academic well-being in school. Although academic resilience studies have increasingly reported on the correlations between the various risk factors, protective factors and measures of academic achievement, there has been no commensurate effort to summarize the relative strength of these relationships. This meta-analysis identifies major risk and protective factors in extant educational resilience literature and estimated the magnitude and direction of their relationships with academic achievement outcomes. The aggregated correlations of relationships between risk, protective factors and achievement outcomes were small but statistically significant. Stronger correlations between specific risk or protective factors and academic achievement outcomes were observed.

Authors

• Adurangba Victor Oje, University of Georgia
  Presenting Author

• Nathaniel Hunsu, University of Georgia
  Presenting Author

• Olusola Olalekan Adesope, Washington State University
  Non-Presenting Author

• Emily Tanner-Smith, University of Oregon
  Non-Presenting Author