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Direct linkMarsh, Herbert W. – Australian Journal of Education, 2004
Attending academically selective schools is intended to have positive effects, but a growing body of theoretical and empirical research demonstrates that the effects are negative for academic self-concept. The big-fish-little-pond effect (BFLPE), based on social comparison theory, posits that equally able students will have lower academic…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Self Concept, Foreign Countries, Academic Ability
Marsh, Herbert W.; Hau, Kit-Tai; Artelt, Cordula; Baumert, Jurgen; Peschar, Jules L. – International Journal of Testing, 2006
Through a rigorous process of selecting educational psychology's most useful affective constructs, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) constructed the Students' Approaches to Learning (SAL) instrument, which requires only 10 min to measure 14 factors that assess self-regulated learning strategies, self-beliefs,…
Descriptors: Measurement Techniques, Educational Psychology, Psychometrics, Cross Cultural Studies
