School-average achievement negatively predicts parent, teacher, and student expectations and parent aspirations, with larger adverse effects for parents and especially teachers than students¶
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q3 i? School-average achievement negatively predicts all four belief variables (a big-fish-little-pond effect), and these adverse effects are larger for parents and particularly teachers than for students. → Herbert W. Marsh 2023
Evidence¶
Herbert W. Marsh 2023¶
Herbert W. Marsh, Reinhard Pekrun, Jiesi Guo, John Hattie, Eyal Karin. (2023). Too Much of a Good Thing Might Be Bad: the Double-Edged Sword of Parental Aspirations and the Adverse Effects of Aspiration-Expectation Gaps. Educational Psychology Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-023-09768-8
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Longitudinal SEM with school-average achievement and SES aggregates in the ELS:2002 sample; the study reports all four beliefs were "negatively predicted by school-average achievement", with larger adverse effects for parents and particularly teachers. No effect sizes printed in the available text.
"Parent, teacher, student expectations, and parent aspirations were all negatively predicted by school-average achievement (a big-fish-little-pond effect). However, these adverse effects of school-average achievement were larger for parents and particularly teachers than students."
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Related Claims¶
- Expectations and aspirations partly mediate the adverse impacts of school-average achievement on GPA and age-26 outcomes — related
- The Big-Fish-Little-Pond effect on mathematics self-concept is negative and statistically significant in all three countries under a fully specified doubly latent model — related
- Class-average achievement negatively predicts mathematics self-concept after controlling individual achievement (BFLPE replication in TIMSS 2019) — related
- School-average achievement negatively predicts academic self-concept (BFLPE) and GPA in the comprehensive doubly-latent model — related
- Schoolmates' achievement (big-fish-little-pond effect) relates only to academic self-concepts, not to labor market beliefs or disengagement — reports the opposite
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School-average achievement negatively predicts parent, teacher, and student expectations and parent aspirations, with larger adverse effects for parents and especially teachers than students |
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School-average achievement negatively predicts parent, teacher, and student expectations and parent aspirations, with larger adverse effects for parents and especially teachers than students |
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