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Preckel, Franzis; Gotz, Thomas; Frenzel, Anne – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2010
Background: Securing appropriate challenge or preventing boredom is one of the reasons frequently used to justify ability grouping of gifted students, which has been shown to have beneficial effects for achievement. On the other hand, critics stress psychosocial costs, such as detrimental effects on academic self-concept (contrast or…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Self Concept, Academic Achievement, Reference Groups
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Horn, Stacey S. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2006
This study investigated how social group status and group bias are related to adolescents' reasoning about social acceptance. Ninth and eleventh-grade students (N = 379) were asked to make judgments about the inclusion of individuals in school activities based on their peer crowd membership. The results of the study revealed that both…
Descriptors: School Activities, Reference Groups, Social Status, Adolescents