Summary: The “Internal/External Frame of Reference (I/E) model” by assumes that the formation of the academic self-concept in a particular domain is influenced not only by social comparisons (external frame) but also by dimensional ...

Summary: The fact that students are at an advantage when working on reading literacy items from their own cultural and linguistic background in an international large scale assessment can be seen as a threat to the fairness of a test. An IRT-based ...

Summary: Epistemological beliefs are educationally relevant subjective assumptions of teachers and learners about the nature of human knowledge and knowledge acquisition. In several previous studies, young adults studying “hard” sciences have reported ...

Summary: The current longitudinal study (consisting of 78 fifth and sixth grade math classes; N = 1762 students) investigates the relationship between domain-specific achievement and emotional experiences. Using a mediation model (adapted from

Summary: The study addresses whether subjective interest in animals and plants measured by questionnaires can be validated by objective log file data on the usage of a biodiversity information system. Correspondences between these two measurement ...

Summary: The Internal/External Frame of Reference model (I/E-M, ) assumes that social (interindividual) and dimensional (intraindividual) comparisons of academic achievements have an impact on academic self-concepts. Dimensional comparisons are ...

Summary: The present study aims to investigate the dimensionality of change problems with unknown initial set and the importance of various predictor variables derived from current models of change word problem solving with respect to children's strategy ...

Summary: Forty-eight fourth-graders performed a mathematics test (arithmetic performance), simple (single-digit) addition and subtraction tasks (basic fact retrieval), memory span forward (indicating the capacity of the phonological loop; ) ...

Summary: In a questionnaire study, 96 international and 171 domestic students of a German university indicated the type of social support they preferred in three prototypical critical situations during their course of study. The participants also reported ...