@article{HeyderBrunner2018,
  author    = {Heyder, Anke and Brunner, Martin},
  title     = {Teachers' aptitude beliefs as a predictor of helplessness in low-achieving students},
  series = {Learning and individual differences},
  volume    = {62},
  journal   = {Learning and individual differences},
  publisher = {Elsevier},
  address   = {Amsterdam},
  issn      = {1041-6080},
  doi       = {10.1016/j.lindif.2018.01.015},
  pages     = {118 -- 127},
  year      = {2018},
  abstract  = {Low-achieving students are at risk of experiencing a pattern of emotional, motivational, and cognitive deficits called school-related helplessness if they attribute their low achievement to low aptitude. Teachers' beliefs about the causes of students' low achievement are important sources of attributional information for students. In a sample of 2117 German ninth-graders attending the lowest track, 118 math and 129 German-language teachers, we tested whether teachers' beliefs about the extent to which aptitude causes achievement moderated the achievement-helplessness relation in students and whether there were differences between math and German. Multilevel analyses revealed that low prior achievement predicted higher helplessness in both subjects but the effect was stronger in math than in German. Teachers' beliefs amplified the achievement-helplessness relation in math but not in German. Results are discussed regarding domain-specific epistemological beliefs, and implications for research and practice are derived.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{BrandtBeckerTetzneretal.2018,
  author    = {Brandt, Naemi D. and Becker, Michael and Tetzner, Julia and Brunner, Martin and Kuhl, Poldi and Maaz, Kai},
  title     = {Personality across the lifespan exploring measurement invariance of a short Big Five Inventory from ages 11 to 84},
  series = {European journal of psychological assessment},
  volume    = {36},
  journal   = {European journal of psychological assessment},
  number    = {1},
  publisher = {Hogrefe},
  address   = {G{\"o}ttingen},
  issn      = {1015-5759},
  doi       = {10.1027/1015-5759/a000490},
  pages     = {162 -- 173},
  year      = {2018},
  abstract  = {Personality is a relevant predictor for important life outcomes across the entire lifespan. Although previous studies have suggested the comparability of the measurement of the Big Five personality traits across adulthood, the generalizability to childhood is largely unknown. The present study investigated the structure of the Big Five personality traits assessed with the Big Five Inventory-SOEP Version (BFI-S; SOEP = Socio-Economic Panel) across a broad age range spanning 11-84 years. We used two samples of N = 1,090 children (52\% female, M-age = 11.87) and N = 18,789 adults (53\% female, M-age = 51.09), estimating a multigroup CFA analysis across four age groups (late childhood: 11-14 years; early adulthood: 17-30 years; middle adulthood: 31-60 years; late adulthood: 61-84 years). Our results indicated the comparability of the personality trait metric in terms of general factor structure, loading patterns, and the majority of intercepts across all age groups. Therefore, the findings suggest both a reliable assessment of the Big Five personality traits with the BFI-S even in late childhood and a vastly comparable metric across age groups.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{GaertnerBrunner2018,
  author    = {G{\"a}rtner, Holger and Brunner, Martin},
  title     = {Once good teaching, always good teaching?},
  series = {Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability},
  volume    = {30},
  journal   = {Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability},
  number    = {2},
  publisher = {Springer},
  address   = {Heidelberg},
  issn      = {1874-8597},
  doi       = {10.1007/s11092-018-9277-5},
  pages     = {159 -- 182},
  year      = {2018},
  abstract  = {In many countries, students are asked about their perceptions of teaching in order to make decisions about the further development of teaching practices on the basis of this feedback. The stability of this measurement of teaching quality is a prerequisite for the ability to generalize the results to other teaching situations. The present study aims to expand the extant empirical body of knowledge on the effects of situational factors on the stability of students' perceptions of teaching quality. Therefore, we investigate whether the degree of stability is moderated by three situational factors: time between assessments, subjects taught by teachers, and students' grade levels. To this end, we analyzed data from a web-based student feedback system. The study involved 497 teachers, each of whom conducted two student surveys. We examined the differential stability of student perceptions of 16 teaching constructs that were operationalized as latent correlations between aggregated student perceptions of the same teacher's teaching. Testing metric invariance indicated that student ratings provided measures of teaching constructs that were invariant across time, subjects, and grade levels. Stability was moderated to some extent by grade level but not by subjects taught nor time spacing between surveys. The results provide evidence of the extent to which situational factors may affect the stability of student perceptions of teaching constructs. The generalizability of the students' feedback results to other teaching situations is discussed.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{SchmidtBrunnerPreckel2018,
  author    = {Schmidt, Isabelle and Brunner, Martin and Preckel, Franzis},
  title     = {Effects of achievement differences for internal/external frame of reference model investigations},
  series = {British journal of educational psychology},
  volume    = {88},
  journal   = {British journal of educational psychology},
  number    = {4},
  publisher = {Wiley},
  address   = {Hoboken},
  issn      = {0007-0998},
  doi       = {10.1111/bjep.12198},
  pages     = {513 -- 528},
  year      = {2018},
  abstract  = {Background Achievement in math and achievement in verbal school subjects are more strongly correlated than the respective academic self-concepts. The internal/external frame of reference model (I/E model; Marsh, 1986, Am. Educ. Res. J., 23, 129) explains this finding by social and dimensional comparison processes. We investigated a key assumption of the model that dimensional comparisons mainly depend on the difference in achievement between subjects. We compared correlations between subject-specific self-concepts of groups of elementary and secondary school students with or without achievement differences in the respective subjects. Aims The main goals were (1) to show that effects of dimensional comparisons depend to a large degree on the existence of achievement differences between subjects, (2) to demonstrate the generalizability of findings over different grade levels and self-concept scales, and (3) to test a rarely used correlation comparison approach (CCA) for the investigation of I/E model assumptions. Samples We analysed eight German elementary and secondary school student samples (grades 3-8) from three independent studies (Ns 326-878). Method Correlations between math and German self-concepts of students with identical grades in the respective subjects were compared with the correlation of self-concepts of students having different grades using Fisher's Z test for independent samples. Results In all samples, correlations between math self-concept and German self-concept were higher for students having identical grades than for students having different grades. Differences in median correlations had small effect sizes for elementary school students and moderate effect sizes for secondary school students. Conclusions Findings generalized over grades and indicated a developmental aspect in self-concept formation. The CCA complements investigations within I/E-research.},
  language  = {en}
}