The Big-Fish-Little-Pond Effect in Mathematics: A Cross-Cultural Comparison of U.S. and Saudi Arabian TIMSS Responses

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 777-804

  Marsh, Herbert W ^a,b,c   Abduljabbar, Adel Salah ^b   Parker, Philip D ^a   Morin, Alexandre J S ^a   Abdelfattah, Faisal ^b   Nagengast, Benjamin ^d  

^a AUSTRALIAN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

developmental: social; frame of reference effects; measurement statistics; methodology; self concept; social comparison processes; Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study

Indexed keywords

EID: 84899837949     PISSN: 00220221     EISSN: 15525422     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022022113519858     Document Type: Article

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