Testing Models on the Genesis of Academic Self-Concepts: Findings of the PISA StudySummary: The nationally representative sample of 15-year-old students investigated in the PISA study (Programme for International Student Assessment) provides achievement ...
Summary: Reference group effects on self-concept have been examined in a multitude of empirical studies in various educational settings. Effects of this kind have been most rigorously demonstrated by Herbert W. Marsh, who introduced the term big-fish-...
Development of Self-Concept and the Influence of Goal Orientation Following Transition to Secondary SchoolIn a longitudinal study with 238 fifth graders recommended to attend a Gymnasium (academic track of secondary school), it is examined how the ...
Abstract. We simultaneously resolve three paradoxes in academic self-concept research with a single unifying meta-theoretical model based on frame-of-reference effects across 68 countries, 18,292 schools, and 485,490 15-year-old students. ...