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Direct linkNagengast, Benjamin; Marsh, Herbert W. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2012
Being schooled with other high-achieving peers has a detrimental influence on students' self-perceptions: School-average and class-average achievement have a negative effect on academic self-concept and career aspirations--the big-fish-little-pond effect. Individual achievement, on the other hand, predicts academic self-concept and career…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Self Concept, Developed Nations, Developing Nations
Peer reviewedMarsh, Herbert W. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1990
How different frames of reference affect the formation of mathematics and English self-concepts was studied for 14,825 high school sophomores from the High School and Beyond Study. Results are discussed in terms of the internal/external frame of reference model and the big-fish-little-pond effect. (SLD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Concept Formation, Context Effect, Correlation
