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Marsh, Herbert W. – 1992
Variables that influence growth and change in educational outcomes in the last 2 years of high school were studied using data from the High School and Beyond (HSB) study. The HSB study provided a database of thousands of variables for about 30 students from each of 1,000 randomly selected high schools in the United States in their sophomore and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Catholic Schools, Educational Research, Extracurricular Activities
Marsh, Herbert W.; Smith, Ian – 1984
Masculinity (M) and Femininity (F) were related to multiple dimensions of self-concept for responses from 962 high school students. Androgyny theory predicts that F, as well as M, will contribute positively and uniquely to self-concept, but previous research has typically found that the contribution of F is nil or even negative after controlling…
Descriptors: Androgyny, Females, Femininity, Foreign Countries
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Marsh, Herbert W.; Craven, Rhonda; Debus, Raymond – Child Development, 1998
Used new administration procedure of Self Description Questionnaire to assess dimensions of young children's self-concept in a multicohort-multioccasion study. Found that the scale's reliability and stability improved with age and from one year to the next. Gender differences were stable over age. Time 1 teacher ratings contributed to the…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cohort Analysis, Factor Analysis, Individual Development