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The Reciprocal Effects Model Revisited: Extending Its Reach to Gifted Students Attending Academically Selective Schools
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Seaton, Marjorie; Marsh, Herbert W.; Parker, Philip D.; Craven, Rhonda G.; Yeung, Alexander S. – Gifted Child Quarterly, 2015
The reciprocal effects model (REM) predicts a reciprocal relation between academic self-concept and academic achievement, whereby prior academic self-concept is associated with future gains in achievement, and prior achievement is related to subsequent academic self-concept. Although research in this area has been extensive, there has been a…
Descriptors: Correlation, Self Concept, Academic Achievement, Selective Admission
Character Building or Subversive Consequences of Employment during High School: Causal Effects Based on Propensity Score Models for Categorical Treatments
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Nagengast, Benjamin; Marsh, Herbert W.; Chiorri, Carlo; Hau, Kit-Tai – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2014
The present study revisited the unresolved issue of the long-term effects of part-time working intensity during high school on students' achievement, participation in postsecondary education, time allocation, and work-related values and expectations. Using data from the Educational Longitudinal Study of 2002 (N = 14,654), the effects of part-time…
Descriptors: High School Students, Student Employment, Probability, Scores
Earning Its Place as a Pan-Human Theory: Universality of the Big-Fish-Little-Pond Effect across 41 Culturally and Economically Diverse Countries
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Seaton, Marjorie; Marsh, Herbert W.; Craven, Rhonda G. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2009
For more than 2 decades, big-fish-little-pond effect (BFLPE) research has demonstrated that students in high-ability classes and schools have lower academic self-concepts than their equally able counterparts in mixed-ability schools. However, cross-cultural BFLPE research has been limited to mostly developed and individualist countries. Using the…
Descriptors: Animals, Academic Achievement, Educational Practices, Developed Nations
The Big-Fish-Little-Pond Effect: Persistent Negative Effects of Selective High Schools on Self-Concept after Graduation
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Marsh, Herbert W.; Trautwein, Ulrich; Ludtke, Oliver; Baumert, Jurgen; Koller, Olaf – American Educational Research Journal, 2007
According to the big-fish-little-pond effect (BFLPE), attending academically selective high schools negatively affects academic self-concept. Does the BFLPE persist after graduation from high school? In two large, representative samples of German high school students (Study 1: 2,306 students, 147 schools; Study 2: 1,758 students, 94 schools), the…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Foreign Countries, Self Concept, Self Concept Measures