ERIC Number: EJ1455512
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024
Pages: 23
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Living in the Big Pond: Adding the Neighborhood as a Frame of Reference for Academic Self-Concept Formation
AERA Open, v10 n1 2024
Research on the big-fish-little-pond effect demonstrates that class-average achievement negatively affects students' academic self-concept via social comparison processes. The neighborhood-effects literature reports positive effects of advantageous socioeconomic neighborhood conditions on students' academic development via collective socialization mechanisms. To investigate how socioeconomic neighborhood conditions affect academic self-concept, we separately and simultaneously analyzed classroom- and neighborhood-level composition effects on students' academic self-concept, using two samples drawn from two grade levels (N[subscript Grade5] = 3,906, N[subscript Grade9] = 3,277). Analyses of the neighborhood level only indicate that socioeconomic neighborhood conditions negatively predict general, math, and German self-concept in Grade 5. In Grade 9, this holds only for math self-concept. In simultaneous analyses including classrooms and neighborhoods, socioeconomically advantageous neighborhood conditions negatively predicted general and math self-concept in Grade 5.
Descriptors: Self Concept, Academic Achievement, Educational Environment, Academic Ability, Peer Relationship, Socioeconomic Status, Neighborhoods, Grade 5, Grade 9, Mathematics Achievement, German, Advantaged, Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Influences, Family Environment
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education; Grade 5; Intermediate Grades; Middle Schools; Grade 9; High Schools; Junior High Schools; Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Germany
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