Academic Self-Concept and Academic Achievement: Developmental Perspectives on Their Causal Ordering.

Guay, Frederic; Marsh, Herbert W.; Boivin, Michel

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ERIC Number: EJ662406

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Publication Date: 2003

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Academic Self-Concept and Academic Achievement: Developmental Perspectives on Their Causal Ordering.

Guay, Frederic; Marsh, Herbert W.; Boivin, Michel

Journal of Educational Psychology, v95 n1 p124-36 Mar 2003

Tests theoretical and developmental models of the causal ordering between academic self-concept and academic achievement. The structural equation model for the total sample supported a reciprocal-effects model, indicating that achievement has an effect on self-concept and that academic self-concept has an effect on achievement. (Contains 33 references, 3 tables, and 1 appendix.) (GCP)

Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Causal Models, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, Influences, Student Development

Publication Type: Information Analyses; Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: Canada

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