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Extending the Reciprocal Effects Model of Math Self-Concept and Achievement: Long-Term Implications for End-of-High-School, Age-26 Outcomes, and Long-Term Expectations
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Marsh, Herbert W. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2023
The Reciprocal Effects Model (REM) posits that academic self-concept and corresponding achievement measures are reciprocally related over time. Although there is considerable support for the REM based on short-term, narrowly focused educational accomplishments, little research evaluates the long-term implications of this reciprocal pattern of…
Descriptors: High School Students, Grade 10, Self Concept, Mathematics Achievement
Too Much of a Good Thing Might Be Bad: The Double-Edged Sword of Parental Aspirations and the Adverse Effects of Aspiration-Expectation Gaps
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Marsh, Herbert W.; Pekrun, Reinhard; Guo, Jiesi; Hattie, John; Karin, Eyal – Educational Psychology Review, 2023
Conventional wisdom suggests that parents' educational expectations (how far they expect their children to go) and aspirations (how far they want their children to go) positively impact academic outcomes and benefits from attending high-ability schools. However, here we juxtapose the following: largely positive effects of educational expectations…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Parent Attitudes, Aspiration, Student Attitudes
Extracurricular School Activities: The Good, the Bad, and the Nonlinear.
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Marsh, Herbert W.; Kleitman, Sabina – Harvard Educational Review, 2002
Three models (threshold, identification/commitment, social inequality gap reduction) were used to examine effects of extracurricular activities on 12th-grade and postsecondary outcomes. As the identification/commitment model predicted, school-based extracurricular activities were more beneficial than out-of-school activities. Consistent with the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Economically Disadvantaged, Extracurricular Activities, Grade 12
Consequences of Employment during High School: Character Building, Subversion of Academic Goals, or a Threshold?
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Marsh, Herbert W.; Kleitman, Sabina – American Educational Research Journal, 2005
This study showed that working during high school had negative effects on 15 of 23 Grade 12 and postsecondary outcomes such as achievement, coursework selection, educational and occupational aspirations, and college attendance. These effects were found with control for background variables and parallel outcomes from Grades 8 and 10 based on the…
Descriptors: High School Students, Student Employment, Part Time Employment, Grade 8