Herbert W. Marsh is an educational psychologist who has published influential research on self-concept, motivation and university students' evaluations of teaching effectiveness, and he is currently a faculty member at Oxford University. He introduced, with John W. Parker in 1984, the big-fish-little-pond effect, a frame of reference model in which equally capable individuals have higher academic self-concepts when placed in a less capable group than in a more capable group. He completed undergraduate and master's degrees at Indiana University Bloomington.
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Herbert W. Marsh is an educational psychologist who has published influential research on self-concept, motivation and university students' evaluations of teaching effectiveness.
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The big-fish-little-pond effect (BFLPE) is a frame of reference model introduced by Herbert W. Marsh and John W. Parker in 1984.
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