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Trautwein, Ulrich; Ludtke, Oliver; Marsh, Herbert W.; Nagy, Gabriel – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2009
Results from prior research indicate that a student's academic self-concept is negatively influenced by the achievement of others in his or her school (a frame of reference effect) and that this negative frame of reference effect is not or only slightly reduced by the quality, standing, or prestige of the track or school attended (a "reflected…
Descriptors: High School Students, Student Attitudes, Academic Achievement, Social Psychology
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Butler, Richard P.; McCauley, Clark – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1987
Compared with data from civilian institutions, data from two graduating classes at the United States Military Academy showed extrordinary stability of independently calculated grade point averages from freshman to senior years and no decline in the validity of Scholastic Aptitude Tests and high school class rank as predictors of these GPAs over…
Descriptors: Class Rank, Correlation, Generalizability Theory, Grade Point Average