Franzis Preckel
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1660119 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Franzis Preckel |
| NOMBRES | Franzis |
| APELLIDO | Preckel |
| FIRMA | PRECKEL F |
| AFILIACIONES | Universität Trier |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5768-8702 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 38 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 33 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 38 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2010 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
The development of need for cognition in elementary to secondary education
peer reviewed
Distinct constructs with a common core
Neuroticism, self-esteem, and generalized self-efficacy are conceptually closely related constructs. This study investigates whether the common core of the three constructs goes back to a conceptual overlap and/or to a hierarchical ordering of the constructs. We tested a confirmatory factor analyses (CFA) model, an exploratory structural equation model (ESEM), a bifactor-CFA model, and an bifactor-ESEM model using a sample of German secondary sch…
Academic profile development
peer reviewed
How smart is my child? The judgment accuracy of parents regarding their children's cognitive ability
Parents' judgment of their children's cognitive ability is important for providing adequate learning environments. This study examined parents' judgment accuracy with 2346 children (M = 8.94 years; 48.3% girls) and their parents (1283 mothers, 426 fathers, and 637 parental pairs). The data were collected between September 2012 and February 2014 in Germany. Latent regression analyses were conducted for the overall sample and by grade (n Grade1&2 =…
Need for Cognition Predicts Academic Interest Development but Not the Other Way Around
Need for cognition (NFC) reflects the tendency to enjoy and engage in cognitive challenges. This study examines the relations between NFC and academic interest among 922 German secondary school students (academic track) assessed four times in Grades 5–7 (initial age M = 10.63, SD = 0.55; 41% female; 90% first language German) in mathematics, German, and English. Data were collected between 2008 and 2012 and were analyzed using autoregressive cros…
The relation between prior knowledge and learning in regular and gifted classes
Stability and change in academic achievement goals
The stability of cognitive abilities
80) can only be expected over the age of 7 and for short time intervals in children. In adults, stability levels meeting this criterion are obtained for over 5 years. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).
Socio-emotional experiences of primary school students
Previous research revealed that students who are overestimated in their ability by their teachers experience school more positively than underestimated students. In the present study, we compared the socio-emotional experiences of N = 1516 students whose cognitive abilities were overestimated, accurately judged, or underestimated by their teachers. We applied propensity score matching using students’ cognitive ability, gender, language, parental …
Sozio-emotionales Erleben von Schule bei Grundschülerinnen und -schülern
Leistungsstarke Schülerinnen und Schüler erleben Schule zumeist positiver als leistungsschwächere, während für Schülerinnen und Schüler mit unterschiedlicher intellektueller Begabung die Befundlage nicht eindeutig ist. In dieser Studie wurde das sozio-emotionale Erleben von Schule über die vier Dimensionen Klassenklima, Schuleinstellung, soziale Integration und Gefühl des Angenommen Seins durch die Lehrperson betrachtet. Es wurde untersucht, ob s…
Deliberate practice in music
Practice is the process through which musicians improve their performance abilities and increase their level of expertise. Deliberate Practice (DP) is a theory of expertise based on the concept that interindividual differences in the level of proficiency in a specific domain can be mostly explained by interindividual differences in the amount of deliberate practice; despite its popularity, subsequent studies have demonstrated several critical iss…
Top-performing math students in 82 countries
In this repository, we archived the R syntax for computing effect sizes, conducting the integrative data analysis, and drawing the figures presented in our manuscript, as well as the protocols of our systematic search for international large-scale assessments. The databases used in this manuscript can be downloaded from https://www.oecd.org/pisa/pisaproducts
Reducing boredom in gifted education—Evaluating the effects of full-time ability grouping
Differentiation hypotheses of intelligence
The Structure of Academic Self-Concept
The structure of academic self-concept (ASC) is assumed to be multidimensional and hierarchical. This methodological review considers the most central models depicting the structure of ASC: a higher-order factor model, the Marsh/Shavelson model, the nested Marsh/Shavelson model, a bifactor representation based on exploratory structural equation modeling, and a first-order factor model. We elaborate on how these models represent the theoretical as…
Nonlinear relations between achievement and academic self-concepts in elementary and secondary school
It is well-documented that academic achievement is associated with students' self-perceptions of their academic abilities, that is, their academic self-concepts. However, low-achieving students may apply self-protective strategies to maintain a favorable academic self-concept when evaluating their academic abilities. Consequently, the relation between achievement and academic self-concept might not be linear across the entire achievement continuu…
A research-practice cooperation to support elementary school teachers’ diagnostic competencies based on a working theory of talent development in STEM
We present a teacher professionalization project for promoting elementary school teachers’ diagnostic competencies in recognizing their students’ potential in STEM subjects. Teacher professionalization is fostered through the teachers’ personal involvement in the development of subject-specific diagnostic materials as well as through continuing training on the fundamental knowledge needed to detect and support gifted students. On the basis of the…
Age and ability differentiation in children
1.2, range 6-12 years) of the THINK 1-4 intelligence test to investigate ability differentiation, developmental differentiation, and their interaction. The sample was nationally representative regarding age, gender, urbanization, and geographic location of residence but not regarding parents' education and migration background (overrepresentation of children with more educated parents, underrepresentation of children with migration background). T…
Talent development in natural science in elementary school
Global Self-Esteem Differentially Predicts Multidimensional Perfectionism in Early Adolescents Two Years Later
Perfectionism is a multidimensional personality trait whose facets differentially relate to indicators of psychological functioning, such as global self-esteem. There has been some theoretical disagreement whether perfectionism affects global self-esteem, or vice versa. This question merits renewed attention due to increasing efforts to prevent the development of maladaptive perfectionism facets in adolescents. In addition, recent research has in…
Talent Development in Achievement Domains
Achievement in different domains, such as academics, music, or visual arts, plays a central role in all modern societies. Different psychological models aim to describe and explain achievement and its development in different domains. However, there remains a need for a framework that guides empirical research within and across different domains. With the talent-development-in-achievement-domains (TAD) framework, we provide a general talent-devel…
Incremental validity of specific cognitive abilities beyond general intelligence for the explanation of students’ school achievement
The incremental validity of specific cognitive abilities beyond general intelligence has been investigated in studies using hierarchical multiple regression analyzes (HMR). In the present study, we investigated whether the incremental validity of specific cognitive abilities (i.e., verbal, figural, and numerical ability) for the explanation of school grades varied as a function of students’ general ability level. Data comprised the standardizatio…
Development of achievement goals and their relation to academic interest and achievement in adolescence
10.58). Students reported their mastery, performance-approach, and performance-avoidance goals and their interest in mathematics. Mathematics achievement was assessed by school grades (Studies 1 and 2) and standardized test scores (Study 1). Data were analyzed using latent growth curve, multiple process, and cross-lagged models. Findings for the 2 studies evidenced a substantial degree of consistency. All goals decreased and the decrease became s…
Teachers-in-training perceptions of gifted children’s characteristics and teacher-child interactions
General intelligence and specific cognitive abilities in adolescence
Differentiation of intelligence refers to changes in the structure of intelligence that depend on individuals' level of general cognitive ability (ability differentiation hypothesis) or age (developmental differentiation hypothesis). The present article aimed to investigate ability differentiation, developmental differentiation, and their interaction with nonlinear factor analytic models in 2 studies. Study 1 was comprised of a nationally represe…
How distinctive are morningness and eveningness from the Big Five factors of personality? A meta-analytic investigation
This study explores relations between measures of individuals' circadian preferences and the Big Five. To this end, we compared a model of circadian preferences that acknowledges morningness (M) and eveningness (E) as separate dimensions to that of a model that places M and E on a single continuum (M-E). Analyses of 620 correlations from 44 independent samples (N = 16,647) revealed weak to modest relations between both dimensions of circadian pre…
Ability grouping of gifted students
BackgroundSecuring appropriate challenge or preventing boredom is one of the reasons frequently used to justify ability grouping of gifted students, which has been shown to have beneficial effects for achievement. On the other hand, critics stress psychosocial costs, such as detrimental effects on academic self-concept (contrast or big-fish-little-pond effect).AimThe effects of full-time ability grouping in special classrooms for the gifted on st…
Stability and change in intelligence from age 12 to age 52
The present longitudinal study tackled 2 key aspects of the development of intelligence across a 40-year time period from age 12 to age 52 concerning (a) stability and change in the structure of intelligence with reference to the age differentiation-dedifferentiation hypothesis (how different cognitive abilities relate to each other across age) and (b) differential stabilities (the rank ordering of persons' intelligence levels across time). To th…
Morningness-eveningness and educational outcomes
Background.Chronotype refers to individuals' preference for morning or evening activities. Its two dimensions (morningness and eveningness) are related to a number of academic outcomes.Aims.The main goal of the study was to investigate the incremental validity of chronotype as a predictor of academic achievement after controlling for a number of traditional predictors. In so doing, a further aim was ongoing validation of a chronotype questionnair…
Teachers-in-training perceptions of gifted children’s characteristics and teacher-child interactions
Global Self-Esteem Differentially Predicts Multidimensional Perfectionism in Early Adolescents Two Years Later
Perfectionism is a multidimensional personality trait whose facets differentially relate to indicators of psychological functioning, such as global self-esteem. There has been some theoretical disagreement whether perfectionism affects global self-esteem, or vice versa. This question merits renewed attention due to increasing efforts to prevent the development of maladaptive perfectionism facets in adolescents. In addition, recent research has in…
General intelligence and specific cognitive abilities in adolescence
Differentiation of intelligence refers to changes in the structure of intelligence that depend on individuals' level of general cognitive ability (ability differentiation hypothesis) or age (developmental differentiation hypothesis). The present article aimed to investigate ability differentiation, developmental differentiation, and their interaction with nonlinear factor analytic models in 2 studies. Study 1 was comprised of a nationally represe…
Big fish in big ponds
BackgroundAbility grouping can lower students' academic self-perceptions through reference group effects of class-average achievement on academic self-concept (ASC) - the Big-fish-little-Pond-effect (BFLPE; Marsh & Parker, 1984, J. Pers. Soc. Psychol., 47, 213). Although the effect itself is well documented, many open questions remain. For instance, negative contrast effects of group average achievement and positive assimilation effects of group …
Gifted and Maladjusted? Implicit Attitudes and Automatic Associations Related to Gifted Children
The disharmony hypothesis (DH) states that high intelligence comes at a cost to the gifted, resulting in adjustment problems. We investigated whether there is a gifted stereotype that falls in line with the DH and affects attitudes toward gifted students. Preservice teachers ( N = 182) worked on single-target association tests and affective priming tasks. High intelligence was more strongly associated with gifted than with average-ability student…
How smart is my child? The judgment accuracy of parents regarding their children's cognitive ability
Parents' judgment of their children's cognitive ability is important for providing adequate learning environments. This study examined parents' judgment accuracy with 2346 children (M = 8.94 years; 48.3% girls) and their parents (1283 mothers, 426 fathers, and 637 parental pairs). The data were collected between September 2012 and February 2014 in Germany. Latent regression analyses were conducted for the overall sample and by grade (n Grade1&2 =…
Effects of achievement differences for internal/external frame of reference model investigations
BackgroundAchievement 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 subje…
Ability grouping of gifted students
BackgroundSecuring appropriate challenge or preventing boredom is one of the reasons frequently used to justify ability grouping of gifted students, which has been shown to have beneficial effects for achievement. On the other hand, critics stress psychosocial costs, such as detrimental effects on academic self-concept (contrast or big-fish-little-pond effect).AimThe effects of full-time ability grouping in special classrooms for the gifted on st…
Stability and change in intelligence from age 12 to age 52
The present longitudinal study tackled 2 key aspects of the development of intelligence across a 40-year time period from age 12 to age 52 concerning (a) stability and change in the structure of intelligence with reference to the age differentiation-dedifferentiation hypothesis (how different cognitive abilities relate to each other across age) and (b) differential stabilities (the rank ordering of persons' intelligence levels across time). To th…
Morningness-eveningness and educational outcomes
Background.Chronotype refers to individuals' preference for morning or evening activities. Its two dimensions (morningness and eveningness) are related to a number of academic outcomes.Aims.The main goal of the study was to investigate the incremental validity of chronotype as a predictor of academic achievement after controlling for a number of traditional predictors. In so doing, a further aim was ongoing validation of a chronotype questionnair…
“My Questionnaire is Too Long!” The assessments of motivational-affective constructs with three-item and single-item measures
Academic self-concept, achievement goals, and achievement
This longitudinal study investigated the contribution of achievement goals and academic self-concept for the prediction of unexpected academic achievement (i.e., achievement that is higher or lower than expected with respect to students’ cognitive ability) in general and when comparing groups of extreme over- and underachievers. Our sample comprised 769 students (50.78% female, 160 underachievers, 176 overachievers) in the highest track of the Ge…
Gifted and Maladjusted? Implicit Attitudes and Automatic Associations Related to Gifted Children
The disharmony hypothesis (DH) states that high intelligence comes at a cost to the gifted, resulting in adjustment problems. We investigated whether there is a gifted stereotype that falls in line with the DH and affects attitudes toward gifted students. Preservice teachers ( N = 182) worked on single-target association tests and affective priming tasks. High intelligence was more strongly associated with gifted than with average-ability student…
Self-concept changes in multiple self-concept domains of gifted students participating in a summer residential school
The present study investigated changes in self-esteem, academic self-concept, intellectual self-concept, and social self-concepts of acceptance, assertion, relations with same-sex peers and relations with other-sex peers with 177 gifted students participating in a 16-day summer school in Germany. Students were assessed three times by self-report questionnaires, one or three weeks before the school started, at the seventh day, and at the fifteenth…
Big fish in big ponds
BackgroundAbility grouping can lower students' academic self-perceptions through reference group effects of class-average achievement on academic self-concept (ASC) - the Big-fish-little-Pond-effect (BFLPE; Marsh & Parker, 1984, J. Pers. Soc. Psychol., 47, 213). Although the effect itself is well documented, many open questions remain. For instance, negative contrast effects of group average achievement and positive assimilation effects of group …
Threat or challenge? Teacher beliefs about gifted students and their relationship to teacher motivation
This study investigated the relationship between teachers’ beliefs about gifted students’ characteristics compared to students with average-ability and the teachers’ motivation (i.e., enthusiasm, self-efficacy). We investigated pre-service teachers’ beliefs and motivational orientations as substantial components of their professional competencies and aimed to make an empirical contribution to the discussion on the professionalization of teachers …
Variables associated with achievement in higher education
The last 2 decades witnessed a surge in empirical studies on the variables associated with achievement in higher education. A number of meta-analyses synthesized these findings. In our systematic literature review, we included 38 meta-analyses investigating 105 correlates of achievement, based on 3,330 effect sizes from almost 2 million students. We provide a list of the 105 variables, ordered by the effect size, and summary statistics for centra…
How distinctive are morningness and eveningness from the Big Five factors of personality? A meta-analytic investigation
This study explores relations between measures of individuals' circadian preferences and the Big Five. To this end, we compared a model of circadian preferences that acknowledges morningness (M) and eveningness (E) as separate dimensions to that of a model that places M and E on a single continuum (M-E). Analyses of 620 correlations from 44 independent samples (N = 16,647) revealed weak to modest relations between both dimensions of circadian pre…
Effects of achievement differences for internal/external frame of reference model investigations
BackgroundAchievement 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 subje…
Development of Motivational Variables and Self-Esteem During the School Career
Theoretical approaches and empirical research suggest a decline in the levels of motivational variables and self-esteem among students during the school career. However, precise statements about the magnitude of the change remain elusive. Conducting a meta-analysis of 107 independent longitudinal studies with 912 effect sizes, we found an overall decrease of Glass’s Δ = −.108 over an average duration of 1.654 years. Change significantly differed …
Talent Development in Achievement Domains
Achievement in different domains, such as academics, music, or visual arts, plays a central role in all modern societies. Different psychological models aim to describe and explain achievement and its development in different domains. However, there remains a need for a framework that guides empirical research within and across different domains. With the talent-development-in-achievement-domains (TAD) framework, we provide a general talent-devel…
Incremental validity of specific cognitive abilities beyond general intelligence for the explanation of students’ school achievement
The incremental validity of specific cognitive abilities beyond general intelligence has been investigated in studies using hierarchical multiple regression analyzes (HMR). In the present study, we investigated whether the incremental validity of specific cognitive abilities (i.e., verbal, figural, and numerical ability) for the explanation of school grades varied as a function of students’ general ability level. Data comprised the standardizatio…
Development of achievement goals and their relation to academic interest and achievement in adolescence
10.58). Students reported their mastery, performance-approach, and performance-avoidance goals and their interest in mathematics. Mathematics achievement was assessed by school grades (Studies 1 and 2) and standardized test scores (Study 1). Data were analyzed using latent growth curve, multiple process, and cross-lagged models. Findings for the 2 studies evidenced a substantial degree of consistency. All goals decreased and the decrease became s…
Teachers-in-training perceptions of gifted children’s characteristics and teacher-child interactions
General intelligence and specific cognitive abilities in adolescence
Differentiation of intelligence refers to changes in the structure of intelligence that depend on individuals' level of general cognitive ability (ability differentiation hypothesis) or age (developmental differentiation hypothesis). The present article aimed to investigate ability differentiation, developmental differentiation, and their interaction with nonlinear factor analytic models in 2 studies. Study 1 was comprised of a nationally represe…
The Structure of Academic Self-Concept
The structure of academic self-concept (ASC) is assumed to be multidimensional and hierarchical. This methodological review considers the most central models depicting the structure of ASC: a higher-order factor model, the Marsh/Shavelson model, the nested Marsh/Shavelson model, a bifactor representation based on exploratory structural equation modeling, and a first-order factor model. We elaborate on how these models represent the theoretical as…
Nonlinear relations between achievement and academic self-concepts in elementary and secondary school
It is well-documented that academic achievement is associated with students' self-perceptions of their academic abilities, that is, their academic self-concepts. However, low-achieving students may apply self-protective strategies to maintain a favorable academic self-concept when evaluating their academic abilities. Consequently, the relation between achievement and academic self-concept might not be linear across the entire achievement continuu…
A research-practice cooperation to support elementary school teachers’ diagnostic competencies based on a working theory of talent development in STEM
We present a teacher professionalization project for promoting elementary school teachers’ diagnostic competencies in recognizing their students’ potential in STEM subjects. Teacher professionalization is fostered through the teachers’ personal involvement in the development of subject-specific diagnostic materials as well as through continuing training on the fundamental knowledge needed to detect and support gifted students. On the basis of the…
Age and ability differentiation in children
1.2, range 6-12 years) of the THINK 1-4 intelligence test to investigate ability differentiation, developmental differentiation, and their interaction. The sample was nationally representative regarding age, gender, urbanization, and geographic location of residence but not regarding parents' education and migration background (overrepresentation of children with more educated parents, underrepresentation of children with migration background). T…
Talent development in natural science in elementary school
Global Self-Esteem Differentially Predicts Multidimensional Perfectionism in Early Adolescents Two Years Later
Perfectionism is a multidimensional personality trait whose facets differentially relate to indicators of psychological functioning, such as global self-esteem. There has been some theoretical disagreement whether perfectionism affects global self-esteem, or vice versa. This question merits renewed attention due to increasing efforts to prevent the development of maladaptive perfectionism facets in adolescents. In addition, recent research has in…
Sozio-emotionales Erleben von Schule bei Grundschülerinnen und -schülern
Leistungsstarke Schülerinnen und Schüler erleben Schule zumeist positiver als leistungsschwächere, während für Schülerinnen und Schüler mit unterschiedlicher intellektueller Begabung die Befundlage nicht eindeutig ist. In dieser Studie wurde das sozio-emotionale Erleben von Schule über die vier Dimensionen Klassenklima, Schuleinstellung, soziale Integration und Gefühl des Angenommen Seins durch die Lehrperson betrachtet. Es wurde untersucht, ob s…
Psychology (35 obras) · Developmental psychology (26 obras) · Education, Achievement, and Giftedness (22 obras) · Mathematics education (17 obras) · Social Psychology (16 obras) · Academic achievement (12 obras) · Cognition (10 obras) · Motivation and Self-Concept in Sports (8 obras) · Social Psychology (8 obras) · Cognitive Abilities and Testing (6 obras)