When High-Achieving Classmates Put Students at a Disadvantage: Reference Group Effects at the Transition to Secondary SchoolingAbstract: In differentiated school systems, the transition from primary school to one of the available lower secondary school ...
Reference-Group-Effects in a Simulated Classroom: Direct and Indirect JudgmentsResearch on the «Big-Fish-Little-Pond Effect» shows that reference-group-effects do not only have an influence on students’ academic self-concept but also on teachers’ ...
“Another School or Another Teacher Would Have Recommended a Higher Track”: The Meaning of Schools and Teachers for Secondary Tracking RecommendationsAbstract. Recent empirical studies have shown that the tracking ...