Clique members are more similar in academic achievement than classroom members (ICC 0.33 vs. 0.17), offering preliminary support for the similarity criterion¶
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q2 i? The intraclass correlation for academic achievement is higher within cliques (0.33) than within classrooms (0.17), which the authors offer as cautious preliminary support for cliques fulfilling the similarity criterion of reference-group selection. → Tanja Auer 2025
Evidence¶
Tanja Auer 2025¶
Tanja Auer, Marion Reindl, Burkhard Gniewosz. (2025). Is the clique a pond? The big-fish-little-pond effect and the relative meaning of clique and classroom. Learning and Instruction 95 (2025) 101997. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.learninstruc.2024.101997
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Descriptive ICC comparison reported in the Discussion as preliminary support for the similarity criterion, citing Lorah (2018) for the ICC approach. The article calls this "cautious preliminary support"; the ICCs are descriptive similarity statistics, not effect sizes for an ASC outcome.
"A higher ICC value indicates greater similarity among students within the clique. The ICC for cliques (0.33) indicates greater similarity in academic achievement among cli- que members than within classrooms (0.17)."
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Related Claims¶
- Variance in ASC change is statistically significant at individual, clique, and classroom levels, with a slight average decline in ASC across the school year — related
- No statistically significant assimilation effect (BIRGE) of belonging to a higher-achieving clique within the classroom on ASC change — related
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Clique members are more similar in academic achievement than classroom members (ICC 0.33 vs. 0.17), offering preliminary support for the similarity criterion |
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Clique members are more similar in academic achievement than classroom members (ICC 0.33 vs. |
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