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Marsh, Herbert W.; And Others – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 1991
The 1986 internal/external frame of reference model of H. W. Marsh was tested using self-concept and self-efficacy responses of 410 Australian fifth grade students. Support for the model was found only for self-concept responses. Results are discussed in relation to academic self-concept. (SLD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Classroom Research, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries
Marsh, Herbert W.; And Others – 1981
The Self Description Questionnaire (SDQ) is a multidimensional instrument designed to measure seven facets of self-concept hypothesized in Shavelson's hierarchical model. The SDQ, along with measures of attributions and academic achievement, was administered to primary school students from two quite diverse populations. Separate factor analyses of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Factor Structure, Foreign Countries, Intermediate Grades
Marsh, Herbert W. – 1984
The self-serving effect (SSE), often depicted as a bias, is the tendency to accept responsibility for one's own successes but not one's own failures. Two studies of Australian fifth graders (n=226, n=559) were further analyzed to investigate individual differences in SSE. The Sydney Attribution Scale measured students' perceptions of the causes of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Failure, Achievement Tests, Analysis of Variance