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Title: Students' self-concepts of ability in math, reading predict later math, reading attainment
Post by: rangerrebew on September 20, 2017, 08:55:03 am

Students' self-concepts of ability in math, reading predict later math, reading attainment

Date:
    September 19, 2017
Source:
    Society for Research in Child Development
Summary:
    A new longitudinal study looked at how youths' self-concepts are linked to their actual academic achievement in math and reading from middle childhood to adolescence. The study found that students' self-concepts of their abilities in these two academic domains play an important role in motivating their achievements over time and across levels of achievement.
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https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/09/170919091005.htm

Title: Re: Students' self-concepts of ability in math, reading predict later math, reading attainment
Post by: Oceander on September 20, 2017, 10:10:35 am

Duh

Title: Re: Students' self-concepts of ability in math, reading predict later math, reading attainment
Post by: Suppressed on September 20, 2017, 07:00:36 pm

Longitudinally true; however, when you compare American students to others, we overestimate our abilities.