Type of evaluation moderates the label effect, with academic evaluations and overall assessments most negatively affected¶

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q4 i2 Label effects on behavioral evaluations (g = −0.45), personality evaluations (g = −0.46), and other evaluations (g = −0.37) are smaller but still significantly negative. → Franz 2023

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Franz 2023¶

Franz, D. J., Richter, T., Lenhard, W., Marx, P., Stein, R., & Ratz, C. (2023). The Influence of Diagnostic Labels on the Evaluation of Students: a Multilevel Meta-Analysis. Educational Psychology Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-023-09716-6

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Subgroup estimates from the same moderator analysis of evaluation types in the multilevel meta-analysis, reporting smaller but significant negative effects for behavioral (g = −0.45), personality (g = −0.46), and other evaluation categories.

"Effects of labeling on behavioral evaluations (g = −0.45), on personality evaluations (g = −0.46), and on other evaluations (g = −0.37) were less negative and differed significantly from zero, too (Table 1 and Fig. 2)."

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