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Self-concept and academic achievement: A meta-analysis of longitudinal relations

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As high self-concept is related to high academic performance and vice-versa, intervention programs that combine self-enhancement and skill development should be integrated.
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This article is published in Journal of School Psychology.The article was published on 2011-10-01. It has received 330 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Academic achievement & Self-concept.

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High-Ability Grouping: Benefits for Gifted Students' Achievement Development Without Costs in Academic Self-Concept.

TL;DR: Investigation of effects of full-time ability grouping on students' academic self-concept (ASC) and mathematics achievement in the first 3 years of secondary school revealed no evidence for contrast effects of class-average achievement or assimilation effects ofclass type on students', and ASC remained stable over time.
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Effects of Achievement Goals on Perceptions of Competence in Conditions of Unfavourable Social Comparisons: The Mastery Goal Advantage Effect.

TL;DR: Current findings broaden understanding of the adaptive nature of mastery-approach goals and suggest that it is possible to modulate aversive responses to unfavourable social comparisons by focusing attention on mastery- Approach goals.
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The influence of extracurricular activities on middle school students’ science learning in China

TL;DR: In this paper, structural equation modelling was used to investigate the influence of students' self-chosen and school-organised extracurricular activities on science achievement through mediating interests and the academic self-concept.
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Academic self-concept, perceptions of the learning environment, engagement, and learning outcomes of university students: relationships and causal ordering

TL;DR: This paper examined the relationship among university students' academic self-concept, perceptions of the learning environment, engagement, and learning outcomes (academic achievement, generic skills development and learning satisfaction).
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Evaluation of food safety curriculum effectiveness: A longitudinal study of high-school-aged youths’ knowledge retention, risk-perception, and perceived behavioral control

TL;DR: In this article, two food safety curricula were evaluated for effectiveness in changing the food safety knowledge, risk-perception, and perceived behavioral control of high school students enrolled in microbiology and agriculture courses, immediately following and one year after an educational intervention.
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Cutoff criteria for fit indexes in covariance structure analysis : Conventional criteria versus new alternatives

TL;DR: In this article, the adequacy of the conventional cutoff criteria and several new alternatives for various fit indexes used to evaluate model fit in practice were examined, and the results suggest that, for the ML method, a cutoff value close to.95 for TLI, BL89, CFI, RNI, and G...
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Principles and Practice of Structural Equation Modeling

TL;DR: The book aims to provide the skills necessary to begin to use SEM in research and to interpret and critique the use of method by others.
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Statistical Methods for Meta-Analysis

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a model for estimating the effect size from a series of experiments using a fixed effect model and a general linear model, and combine these two models to estimate the effect magnitude.
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