Summary: Studies regarding families with gifted adolescents reveal controversial results. This is mainly due to methodological problems. This article investigates 84 families with a gifted adolescent and 95 families with a non-gifted adolescent. ...
Academic Self-Concepts, Achievement and the Internal Frame of Reference: A Design-Oriented Demonstration of Predictions Derived from the I/E-modelSummary: Even though grades in different subjects are substantially correlated, the corresponding self-...
Excellent Scholastic Achievement with Average Intelligence – Overachievement in Secondary SchoolIn an explorative study, we compared overachievers (best students of their year; average intelligence) with matched average achievers (similar average ...
Facets of academic self-concept. Development of a self-concept grid: psychometric properties and some validity dataAbstract. Academic self-concept plays an important role in the educational context. A grid is developed to measure various facets of ...
General and specific cheating strategies at schoolAbstract. This study aims to shed some light on the dimensional structure of cheating at school. N = 524 students from 25 German grammar school (high school) classes (grade 8 to 10) are investigated. ...