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Student wellbeing programs improve academic outcomes
Discover - School education
  • Katherine Dix, Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER)
  • Syeda Kashfee Ahmed, Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER)
  • Toby Carslake, Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER)
  • Shani Sniedze, Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER)
  • Elizabeth O'Grady, Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER)
  • Jenny Trevitt, Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER)
Publication Date
10-9-2020
Subjects
Academic achievement, Outcomes of education, Literacy, Numeracy, Well being, Systematic reviews
Abstract

A systematic review and meta-analysis of 78 high-quality evaluations of school-based wellbeing programs reveals both academic and non-academic benefits, with students in the interventions up to four months ahead in their learning, compared to their control group peers.

Place of Publication
Melbourne
Publisher
Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER)
Citation Information
Dix, Katherine; Ahmed, Kashfee; Carslake, Toby; Sniedze-Gregory, Shani; O'Grady, Elizabeth; Trevitt, Jenny. (October 2020) 'Student wellbeing programs improve academic outcomes', Discover, ACER. https://www.acer.org/au/discover/article/student-wellbeing-programs-improve-academic-outcomes