TY - JOUR A1 - Hasl, Andrea A1 - Voelkle, Manuel A1 - Kretschmann, Julia A1 - Richter, Dirk A1 - Brunner, Martin T1 - A dynamic structural equation approach to modeling wage dynamics and cumulative advantage across the lifespan JF - Multivariate Behavioral Research N2 - Wages and wage dynamics directly affect individuals' and families' daily lives. In this article, we show how major theoretical branches of research on wages and inequality-that is, cumulative advantage (CA), human capital theory, and the lifespan perspective-can be integrated into a coherent statistical framework and analyzed with multilevel dynamic structural equation modeling (DSEM). This opens up a new way to empirically investigate the mechanisms that drive growing inequality over time. We demonstrate the new approach by making use of longitudinal, representative U.S. data (NLSY-79). Analyses revealed fundamental between-person differences in both initial wages and autoregressive wage growth rates across the lifespan. Only 0.5% of the sample experienced a "strict" CA and unbounded wage growth, whereas most individuals revealed logarithmic wage growth over time. Adolescent intelligence and adult educational levels explained substantial heterogeneity in both parameters. We discuss how DSEM may help researchers study CA processes and related developmental dynamics, and we highlight the extensions and limitations of the DSEM framework. KW - Dynamic Structural Equation Modeling (DSEM) KW - wage dynamics KW - cumulative advantage (CA) KW - autoregressive wage growth KW - human capital theory Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/00273171.2022.2029339 SN - 0027-3171 SN - 1532-7906 VL - 58 IS - 3 SP - 504 EP - 525 PB - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group CY - Abingdon ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kretschmann, Julia A1 - Vock, Miriam A1 - Luedtke, Oliver T1 - Acceleration in elementary school: using propensity score matching to estimate the effects on academic achievement JF - The journal of educational psychology N2 - Using German data, we examined the effects of one specific type of acceleration-grade skipping-on academic performance. Prior research on the effects of acceleration has suffered from methodological restrictions, especially due to a lack of appropriate comparison groups and a priori measurements. For this reason, propensity score matching was applied in this analysis to minimize selection bias due to observed confounding variables. Various types of matching were attempted, and, in consideration of balancing the covariates, full matching was the final choice. We used data from the Berlin ELEMENT Study, analyzing, after matching, the information of 81 students who had skipped a grade over the course of elementary school and up to 1,668 nonaccelerated students who attended the same grade level as the accelerated students. Measurements took place 3 times between the 4th and 6th grades, including the assessment of reading, spelling, and mathematics performance. After matching, the results of between-group comparisons regarding performance indices showed no significant effects of skipping a grade, other than a small positive effect found on spelling performance. Theoretical implications and methodological limitations are discussed. KW - grade skipping KW - academic performance KW - propensity score matching KW - acceleration KW - elementary school Y1 - 2014 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1037/a0036631 SN - 0022-0663 SN - 1939-2176 VL - 106 IS - 4 SP - 1080 EP - 1095 PB - American Psychological Association CY - Washington ER - TY - THES A1 - Kretschmann, Julia T1 - Die psychosoziale Entwicklung in alterskonformen und altersabweichenden Jahrgangsklassen BT - Klassenüberspringen, Klassenwiederholung und relative Alterseffekte Y1 - 2018 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kretschmann, Julia A1 - Westphal, Andrea A1 - Vock, Miriam T1 - Does it pay to be one of the oldest in class? BT - Relative age effects on academic self-concept, peer relations, and teacher judgments in German primary schools JF - Learning and instruction : the journal of the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction N2 - Several studies have revealed that older students in a year group reach higher achievement scores than younger students in that group. But less is known about how students' relative age in class relates to their self-perception of academic achievement, their social acceptance in class and to how teachers judge their abilities. Therefore, we examined relative age effects within class on students' academic self-concept, peer relations, grades, and teachers' secondary school recommendation. Analyses were based on a sample of N = 18,956 German fourth graders, who had never been retained or accelerated. We applied multilevel regression to control for covariates at the individual and classroom level. There were no substantial relative age effects within class across any of the outcomes, except for a small advantage for the youngest in their reading self-concept. Our findings therefore contradict the common assumption that younger students in class are disadvantaged compared to their older classmates. KW - Relative age effects KW - Month of birth KW - Academic self-concept KW - Peer KW - relations KW - Teacher judgments Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.learninstruc.2021.101463 SN - 0959-4752 SN - 1873-3263 VL - 74 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kretschmann, Julia A1 - Vock, Miriam A1 - Lüdtke, Oliver A1 - Jansen, Malte A1 - Gronostaj, Anna T1 - Effects of grade retention on students’ motivation: A longitudinal study over 3 years of secondary school JF - The journal of educational psychology N2 - Despite the fact that grade retention is now seen as controversial in many quarters, it remains common practice in numerous countries. Previous research on the effects of grade retention on student development has, however, generated ambiguous results, particularly in terms of motivational outcomes. This ambiguity has been attributed in part to a lack of high-quality studies including a longitudinal design, a suitable comparison group, and adequate statistical control of preretention differences. Based on longitudinal data of N = 3,288 German students over 3 years of secondary school, we examined differences in their academic self-concept, scholarly interests, learning motivation, and achievement motivation between those being retained in the 6th grade (n = 61) and those of the same age being promoted annually. To account for confounding variables, we applied full propensity score matching on baseline measures of the dependent variables, as well as various other covariates that have been found to be associated with the risk of retention (e.g., cognitive ability, academic performance, and family background variables). Results reveal a steep decline in students’ academic self-concept, interests, and learning motivation during the last months spent in the original class, just before retention. For those measures that were available, negative effects were still partly significant after 1 year, but had diminished 2 years after grade retention. Contrary to predictions suggested by the big-fish-little-pond effect, we found no positive effects of retention on students’ academic self-concept. KW - grade retention KW - secondary school KW - academic self-concept KW - motivation KW - propensity score matching Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1037/edu0000353 SN - 0022-0663 SN - 1939-2176 VL - 111 IS - 8 SP - 1432 EP - 1446 PB - American Psychological Association CY - Washington ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Hasl, Andrea A1 - Kretschmann, Julia A1 - Richter, Dirk A1 - Voelkle, Manuel A1 - Brunner, Martin T1 - Investigating Core Assumptions of the "American Dream": Historical Related to Key Life Outcomes in Adulthood JF - Psychology and aging N2 - The present study examines how historical changes in the U.S. socioeconomic environment in the 20th century may have affected core assumptions of the "American Dream." Specifically, the authors examined whether such changes modulated the extent to which adolescents' intelligence (IQ), their grade point average (GPA), and their parents' socioeconomic status (SES) could predict key life outcomes in adulthood about 20 years later. The data stemmed from two representative U.S. birth cohorts of 15- and 16-year-olds who were born in the early 1960s (N = 3,040) and 1980s (N = 3,524) and who participated in the National Longitudinal Surveys of Youth (NLSY). Cohort differences were analyzed with respect to differences in average relations by means of multiple and logistic regression and for specific points in each outcome distribution by means of quantile regressions. In both cohorts, IQ, GPA, and parental SES predicted important educational, occupational, and health-related life-outcomes about 20 years later. Across historical time, the predictive utility of adolescent IQ and parental SES remained stable for the most part. Yet, the combined effects of social-ecological and socioeconomic changes may have increased the predictive utility (that is, the regression weights) of adolescent GPA for educational, occupational, and health outcomes over time for individuals who were born in the 1980s. Theoretical implications concerning adult development, aging, and late life inequality are discussed. (PsycINFO Database Record. KW - cohort differences KW - intelligence KW - grade point average KW - socioeconomic status KW - life span research Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1037/pag0000392 SN - 0882-7974 SN - 1939-1498 VL - 34 IS - 8 SP - 1055 EP - 1076 PB - American Psychological Association CY - Washington ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Brunner, Martin A1 - Keller, Lena A1 - Stallasch, Sophie E. A1 - Kretschmann, Julia A1 - Hasl, Andrea A1 - Preckel, Franzis A1 - Luedtke, Oliver A1 - Hedges, Larry T1 - Meta-analyzing individual participant data from studies with complex survey designs BT - a tutorial on using the two-stage approach for data from educational large-scale assessments JF - Research synthesis methods N2 - Descriptive analyses of socially important or theoretically interesting phenomena and trends are a vital component of research in the behavioral, social, economic, and health sciences. Such analyses yield reliable results when using representative individual participant data (IPD) from studies with complex survey designs, including educational large-scale assessments (ELSAs) or social, health, and economic survey and panel studies. The meta-analytic integration of these results offers unique and novel research opportunities to provide strong empirical evidence of the consistency and generalizability of important phenomena and trends. Using ELSAs as an example, this tutorial offers methodological guidance on how to use the two-stage approach to IPD meta-analysis to account for the statistical challenges of complex survey designs (e.g., sampling weights, clustered and missing IPD), first, to conduct descriptive analyses (Stage 1), and second, to integrate results with three-level meta-analytic and meta-regression models to take into account dependencies among effect sizes (Stage 2). The two-stage approach is illustrated with IPD on reading achievement from the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). We demonstrate how to analyze and integrate standardized mean differences (e.g., gender differences), correlations (e.g., with students' socioeconomic status [SES]), and interactions between individual characteristics at the participant level (e.g., the interaction between gender and SES) across several PISA cycles. All the datafiles and R scripts we used are available online. Because complex social, health, or economic survey and panel studies share many methodological features with ELSAs, the guidance offered in this tutorial is also helpful for synthesizing research evidence from these studies. KW - complex survey designs KW - educational large-scale assessments KW - individual KW - participant data KW - meta-analysis KW - Programme for International Student KW - Assessment Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1002/jrsm.1584 SN - 1759-2879 SN - 1759-2887 VL - 14 IS - 1 SP - 5 EP - 35 PB - Wiley CY - Hoboken ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Westphal, Andrea A1 - Kretschmann, Julia A1 - Gronostaj, Anna A1 - Vock, Miriam T1 - More enjoyment, less anxiety and boredom BT - How achievement emotions relate to academic self-concept and teachers' diagnostic skills JF - Learning and individual differences : a multidisciplinary journal in education N2 - Students' achievement emotions are critical in their academic development. Therefore, teachers need to create an emotionally positive learning environment. In the light of this, the present study investigated the connection between students' enjoyment, anxiety, boredom and, in the first case, students' academic self-concept and, in the second, teachers' diagnostic skills. The third part of our study examined whether this link would be moderated by students' academic self-concept. Our sample comprised N = 1803 eighth-grade students who reported their achievement emotions and evaluated the diagnostic skills of both their German and mathematics teachers. Hierarchical models indicated that students experience more enjoyment and less anxiety and boredom if teachers exhibit better diagnostic skills. The role of teachers' diagnostic skills in relation to students' emotions was in part moderated by the students' self-concept. These results are discussed in terms of their implications for effective teaching. KW - Achievement emotions KW - Diagnostic skills KW - Instructional quality KW - Academic self-concept KW - Multilevel modeling Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lindif.2018.01.016 SN - 1041-6080 SN - 1873-3425 VL - 62 SP - 108 EP - 117 PB - Elsevier B.V. CY - Amsterdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kretschmann, Julia A1 - Vock, Miriam A1 - Luedtke, Oliver A1 - Gronostaj, Anna T1 - psychosocial development after early acceleration JF - Contemporary educational psychology N2 - Whereas studies that have analyzed factors that affect academic achievement have predominantly revealed positive effects of skipping a grade, controversial results have been found for students’ social-emotional and motivational development. Therefore, the aim of this study was to examine the effects of skipping a whole grade on students’ school satisfaction, peer relations, school anxiety, and academic self-concept. Moreover, we conducted moderation analyses to investigate whether skipping a grade affects boys and girls differently. Data were obtained from N = 4926 German students who were repeatedly surveyed once a year in Grades 4, 5, and 6. A total of N = 96 students from this sample had skipped a grade in elementary school. We applied full matching separately for male and female students in order to minimize selection bias. When analyzing motivational variables, we added class-mean achievement scores as covariates within the matching process. Equally for boys and girls, the results showed no significant effect of skipping on school satisfaction, yet we found a negative effect on peer relations that persisted across the 3 years of measurement. However, after skipping a grade girls were significantly disadvantaged compared to boys on some motivational dimensions. KW - Grade skipping KW - Psychosocial development KW - Propensity score matching KW - Acceleration KW - Moderation analysis Y1 - 2016 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cedpsych.2016.06.001 SN - 0361-476X SN - 1090-2384 VL - 46 SP - 195 EP - 207 PB - Elsevier CY - San Diego ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Westphal, Andrea A1 - Vock, Miriam A1 - Kretschmann, Julia T1 - Unravelling the relationship between teacher-assigned grades, student personality, and standardized test scores JF - Frontiers in psychology / Frontiers Research Foundation N2 - The Big Five personality traits play a major role in student achievement. As such, there is consistent evidence that students that are more conscientious receive better teacher-assigned grades in secondary school. However, research often does not support the claim that students that are more conscientious similarly achieve higher scores in domain-specific standardized achievement tests. Based on the Invest-and-Accrue Model, we argue that conscientiousness explains to some extent why certain students receive better grades despite similar academic accomplishments (i.e., achieving similar scores in domain-specific standardized achievement tests). Therefore, the present study examines to what extent the relationship between student personality and teacher-assigned grades consists of direct as opposed to indirect associations (via subject-specific standardized test scores). We used a representative sample of 14,710 ninth-grade students to estimate these direct and indirect pathways in mathematics and German. Structural equation models showed that test scores explained between 8 and 11% of the variance in teacher-assigned grades in mathematics and German. The Big Five personality traits in students additionally explained between 8 and 10% of the variance in grades. Finally, the personality-grade relationship consisted of direct (0.02 | β| ≤ 0.27) and indirect associations via test scores (0.01 | β| ≤ 0.07). Conscientiousness explained discrepancies between teacher-assigned grades and students’ scores in domain-specific standardized tests to a greater extent than any of the other Big Five personality traits. Our findings suggest that students that are more conscientious may invest more effort to accomplish classroom goals, but fall short of mastery. KW - Big Five KW - student personality KW - teacher-assigned grades KW - grading practice KW - conscientiousness KW - mathematics KW - German KW - secondary school Y1 - 2020 U6 - https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.627440 SN - 1664-1078 IS - 12 PB - Frontiers Research Foundation CY - Lausanne ER - TY - GEN A1 - Westphal, Andrea A1 - Vock, Miriam A1 - Kretschmann, Julia T1 - Unravelling the relationship between teacher-assigned grades, student personality, and standardized test scores T2 - Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe N2 - The Big Five personality traits play a major role in student achievement. As such, there is consistent evidence that students that are more conscientious receive better teacher-assigned grades in secondary school. However, research often does not support the claim that students that are more conscientious similarly achieve higher scores in domain-specific standardized achievement tests. Based on the Invest-and-Accrue Model, we argue that conscientiousness explains to some extent why certain students receive better grades despite similar academic accomplishments (i.e., achieving similar scores in domain-specific standardized achievement tests). Therefore, the present study examines to what extent the relationship between student personality and teacher-assigned grades consists of direct as opposed to indirect associations (via subject-specific standardized test scores). We used a representative sample of 14,710 ninth-grade students to estimate these direct and indirect pathways in mathematics and German. Structural equation models showed that test scores explained between 8 and 11% of the variance in teacher-assigned grades in mathematics and German. The Big Five personality traits in students additionally explained between 8 and 10% of the variance in grades. Finally, the personality-grade relationship consisted of direct (0.02 | β| ≤ 0.27) and indirect associations via test scores (0.01 | β| ≤ 0.07). Conscientiousness explained discrepancies between teacher-assigned grades and students’ scores in domain-specific standardized tests to a greater extent than any of the other Big Five personality traits. Our findings suggest that students that are more conscientious may invest more effort to accomplish classroom goals, but fall short of mastery. T3 - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe - 719 KW - Big Five KW - student personality KW - teacher-assigned grades KW - grading practice KW - conscientiousness KW - mathematics KW - German KW - secondary school Y1 - 2020 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-523024 SN - 1866-8364 IS - 12 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Vock, Miriam A1 - Gronostaj, Anna A1 - Kretschmann, Julia A1 - Westphal, Andrea T1 - Wie bewerten begabte und leistungsstarke Jugendliche in separaten Spezialklassen ihren Unterricht? BT - Unterrichtsqualität in Deutsch und Mathematik in der Sekundarstufe BT - Teaching quality in German and Mathematics in secondary education JF - Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft N2 - Leistungsstarke und besonders begabte Schüler*innen werden im Unterricht oft nicht genügend gefordert. In speziellen Klassen für besonders Leistungsstarke und Begabte kann der Unterricht stärker auf die Lernmöglichkeiten dieser Gruppe zugeschnitten werden. Spezialklassen gelten insgesamt als leistungsförderlich, Studien zur Unterrichtsqualität sind bisher jedoch rar. In dieser Studie wird untersucht, wie Schüler*innen der Leistungs- und Begabungsklassen (LuBK) im Land Brandenburg die Qualität ihres Unterrichts in Deutsch und Mathematik im Vergleich zu Schüler*innen von Regelklassen einschätzen. Die Datenbasis bilden N = 3371 Schüler*innen der 8. und 10. Jahrgangsstufe aus 33 Schulen. Mittels Fragebögen wurden Merkmale der Unterrichtsqualität nach dem QuAIT-Modell erfragt; die Datenanalyse erfolgte mit regressionsanalytischen Mehrebenenmodellen. Die Schüler*innen der LuBK bewerten die Qualität ihres Unterrichts überwiegend positiver als die Schüler*innen der Regelklassen, Defizite zeigen sich jedoch in beiden Klassentypen bei den Qualitätsmerkmalen der inneren Differenzierung und der Mitsprache bei Unterrichtsthemen. N2 - High-performing and gifted students are often not sufficiently challenged in class. In special classes for high-achievers and gifted students, instruction can be tailored more closely to the learning opportunities of this group. Special classes are generally considered to be conducive to achievement, but studies on the quality of instruction have been scarce. This study examines how students in special classes for the gifted and talented in the state of Brandenburg rate the quality of their instruction in German and mathematics compared to students in regular classes. The data basis is constituted by N = 3371 students in the 8th and 10th grades from 33 schools. Questionnaires were used to assess characteristics of teaching quality according to the QuAIT model; data analysis was conducted using regression-analytical multilevel models. The students of the LuBK evaluate the quality of their teaching mainly more positively than the students of the regular classes, however, deficits are evident in both class types with regard to the quality characteristics of internal differentiation and having a say in the topics of instruction. T2 - How do gifted and high achieving adolescents in separate special classes evaluate their lessons? KW - Giftedness KW - Quality of instruction KW - QuAIT model KW - Special classes KW - Talented students KW - Unterrichtsqualität KW - QuAIT-Modell KW - Leistungsstarke Schüler*innen KW - Hochbegabung KW - Spezialklassen Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s11618-022-01118-8 SN - 1434-663X SN - 1862-5215 VL - 25 SP - 1151 EP - 1173 PB - Springer CY - Wiesbaden ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Vock, Miriam A1 - Gronostaj, Anna A1 - Kretschmann, Julia A1 - Westphal, Andrea T1 - „Meine Lehrer mögen mich“ – Soziale Integration von Kindern mit sonderpädagogischem Förderbedarf im gemeinsamen Unterricht in der Grundschule T1 - "My Teachers Like Me" - Social Integration of Children with Special Educational Needs in Inclusive Classes BT - Befunde aus dem Pilotprojekt „Inklusive Grundschule“ im Land Brandenburg BT - Findings from the Pilot Project "Inclusive Primary Schools" in the German State of Brandenburg JF - DDS – Die Deutsche Schule N2 - Brandenburg startete im Schuljahr 2012/2013 das Pilotprojekt „Inklusive Grundschule“ (PING). 35 dieser Pilot-Grundschulen wurden wissenschaftlich begleitet (vgl. Spörer, Schründer-Lenzen, Vock & Maaz, 2015). In diesem Beitrag berichten wir Befunde zum sozialen Selbstkonzept, wie die Kinder das Klassenklima erleben und wie sie sich von ihrer Lehrkraft angenommen fühlen. Untersucht wurden 1.435 Kinder in 61 inklusiven Klassen der Jahrgangsstufen 2 und 3. Es finden sich keine durchgängigen Nachteile bei Selbstkonzept und erlebtem Klassenklima für Kinder mit sonderpädagogischem Förderbedarf (SPF), jedoch fühlen sich diese weniger von ihren Lehrkräften angenommen. N2 - Brandenburg started the pilot project "Inclusive Primary Schools" (PING) in the school year 2012/2013. 35 of these pilot primary schools were scientifically supported (cp. Sporer, Schrunder-Lenzen, Vock & Maaz, 2015). In this article we report findings on the social self-concept, how children experience the class climate, and how they feel accepted by their teachers. The study examined 1,435 children in 61 inclusive 2nd and 3rd grade classes. There are no consistent disadvantages regarding self-concept and experienced class climate for children with special educational needs, but they feel less accepted by their teachers. KW - inclusion KW - primary school KW - social integration KW - special educational needs KW - inclusive education KW - Inklusion KW - Grundschule KW - soziale Integration KW - Förderbedarf KW - gemeinsamer Unterricht Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.31244/dds.2018.02.03 SN - 0012-0731 VL - 110 IS - 2 SP - 124 EP - 137 PB - Waxmann CY - Münster ER -