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Download full textKong, Chit-Kwong; Hau, Kit-Tai; Cheng, Zi-Juan – 1998
In some Western countries, it has been found that studying in schools of high-average ability has negative effects on one's self concept due to social comparisons with high-ability classmates. This has been metaphorically described as the big-fish-little-pond effect (BFLPE). To explore this phenomenon, the perceived school status as a measure of…
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, Adolescents
Cheng, Zi-Juan; Hau, Kit-Tai; Wen, Jian-Bing; Kong, Chit-Kwong – 2000
Using structural equation modeling (SEM), researchers examined whether there was a general dominating factor that governed students' implicit theories of intelligence, morality, personality, creativity, and social intelligence. The possible age-related changes of students' implicit theories were also studied. In all, 1,650 elementary and junior…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Creativity, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries
