Students' Self-Esteem at School: The Risk, the Challenge, and the Cure

dc.creator	Prihadi Kususanto
dc.creator	Melissa Chua
dc.date	2012-01-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-20T22:14:07Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-20T22:14:07Z
dc.identifier	2089-9823
dc.identifier	2302-9277
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/d294fffb22174b90bfef18a691abc78b
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/16585
dc.description	As one of the most important elements in students’ psychological well-being, self-esteem is often neglected at school. In schools where students are grouped based on their academic abilities (Between Class Ability Grouping or BCAG, or tracking), teachers are likely to have different expectancies toward different group of students; towards high-achieving students, they tend to be academically supportive, while towards low-achieving students, they tend to control students’ behavior in order to avoid disciplinary problems. In turn, students observe their teachers’ classroom behavior and develop different perception towards their teachers’ expectancy. Eventually, self-esteem of the students is affected by their perceived teachers’ expectancy (PTE), where the effect is not always positive. In other words, while most teachers would rather not to teach in mixed classrooms, the practice of BCAG might contribute negative effect to students’ self-esteem. Therefore, any strategy to improve students’ self-esteem might not be able to produce long-lasting result, because teachers’ expectancy towards the students is strongly influenced by the classroom segregation. However, it was discovered recently that Locus of Control (LoC) mediates the effect of PTE on students’ self-esteem. In the light of that, there is a hope to develop or maintain students’ self-esteem levels by developing some strategies based on Behavior Modification Theories to alter students’ LoC.
dc.language	English
dc.language	Malay
dc.language	Indonesian
dc.publisher	Universitas Ahmad Dahlan
dc.relation	http://www.journal.uad.ac.id/index.php/EduLearn/article/view/51
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/2089-9823
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/2302-9277
dc.rights	CC BY-NC-ND
dc.source	Journal of Education and Learning, Vol 6, Iss 1, Pp 1-14 (2012)
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
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dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.title	Students' Self-Esteem at School: The Risk, the Challenge, and the Cure
dc.type	article