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Marsh, Herbert W.; Seaton, Marjorie; Trautwein, Ulrich; Ludtke, Oliver; Hau, K. T.; O'Mara, Alison J.; Craven, Rhonda G. – Educational Psychology Review, 2008
The big-fish-little-pond effect (BFLPE) predicts that equally able students have lower academic self-concepts (ASCs) when attending schools where the average ability levels of classmates is high, and higher ASCs when attending schools where the school-average ability is low. BFLPE findings are remarkably robust, generalizing over a wide variety of…
Descriptors: Gifted, Educational Attainment, Ability Grouping, Self Concept