Impact of social and dimensional comparisons on student's mathematical and English subject-interest at the beginning of secondary school

Learning and Instruction

Volumn 34, Issue , 2014, Pages 32-41

  Schurtz, Irene M ^a   Pfost, Maximilian ^a   Nagengast, Benjamin ^b   Artelt, Cordula ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAMBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Big fish little pond effect; Dimensional comparisons; Internal external frame of reference model; Social comparisons; Subject interest

Indexed keywords

EID: 84906500087     PISSN: 09594752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.learninstruc.2014.08.001     Document Type: Article

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