Tracking Effects Depend on Tracking Type
- The aim of the present study was to examine how different types of tracking— between-school streaming, within-school streaming, and course-by-course tracking—shape students’ mathematics self-concept. This was done in an internationally comparative framework using data from the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). After controlling for individual and track mean achievement, results indicated that generally for students in course-by-course tracking, high-track students had higher mathematics self-concepts and low-track students had lower mathematics self-concepts. For students in between-school and within-school streaming, the reverse pat- tern was found. These findings suggest a solution to the ongoing debate about the effects of tracking on students’ academic self-concept and suggest that the reference groups to which students compare themselves differ according to the type of tracking.
Author details: | Anna K. Chmielewski, Hanna DumontORCiDGND, Ulrich Trautwein |
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URL: | http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.3102/0002831213489843 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.3102/0002831213489843 |
ISSN: | 0002-8312 |
Title of parent work (English): | American Educational Research Journal |
Subtitle (English): | An International Comparison of Students’ Mathematics Self-Concept |
Publisher: | Sage |
Place of publishing: | Thousand Oaks, Calif. |
Publication type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Date of first publication: | 2013/10/01 |
Publication year: | 2013 |
Release date: | 2018/03/27 |
Tag: | academic self-concept; international comparison; reference groups; social comparison; tracking |
Volume: | 50 |
Issue: | 5 |
First page: | 926 |
Last Page: | 957 |
Funding institution: | Sage |
Organizational units: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Strukturbereich Bildungswissenschaften / Department Erziehungswissenschaft |
DDC classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 37 Bildung und Erziehung / 370 Bildung und Erziehung |
Peer review: | Referiert |
Publishing method: | Open Access |
Institution name at the time of the publication: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Erziehungswissenschaft |
License (German): | Keine öffentliche Lizenz: Unter Urheberrechtsschutz |
External remark: | Zweitveröffentlichung in der Schriftenreihe Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe ; 380 |