Attenuating the school context increases students’ academic self-concept

Autor: Tamás Keller
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Economics and Business Letters. 10:416-423
ISSN: 2254-4380
DOI: 10.17811/ebl.10.4.2021.416-423
Popis: We show two examples of how attenuating school-context-generated automatic social comparison leads to an increase in students’ academic self-concept (ASC), which is known to regulate the effort students put into education. In Study 1, we exploited COVID-19 induced home-based education to find that students’ ASC in reading and writing increased outside the school context. In Study 2, we activated/attenuated the school context by different priming in a randomized survey experiment. Here, we found that students who first reported their ASC, and subsequently their grades, had higher ASC in reading (but not in writing) than those who first reported their grades. The results indicate that social comparison might indirectly harm students’ educational achievement and attainment via their ASC.
Databáze: OpenAIRE