Self-esteem and Ability Grouping: a Hong Kong investigation of the Big Fish Little Pond Effect
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The aim of this paper was to test the strength of the relationships between student self-esteem, and the ability group of the school band and class stream they attend, as well as their self-perceived academic performance in a non-Western context. Responses of 280 Hong Kong secondary school students to the Chinese Adolescent Self-Esteem Scale were analysed by Performance 3 Stream 3 Band Multivariate Analysis of Variance. Statistically signi® cant main effects for Performance and Stream, but not Band were found. Higher self-esteem was reported by students who perceived their academic performance as higher and who attended lower ability stream classes. The ® ndings supported the Big Fish Little Pond effect of ability grouping within, but not between schools. Implications of the ® ndings for school policies such as classes for the gifted and inclusion of children with learning dif® culties are also
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