Tracking Effects Depend on Tracking Type: An International Comparison of Students' Mathematics Self-Concept

American Educational Research Journal

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 925-957

  Chmielewski, Anna K ^a   Dumont, Hanna ^b   Trautwein, Ulrich ^c  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

academic self concept; international comparison; reference groups; social comparison; tracking

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884542411     PISSN: 00028312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3102/0002831213489843     Document Type: Article

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