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  • 2026 - Research.com Psychology in Australia Leader Award
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  • 2012 - Fellow of the American Educational Research Association

Overview

Herbert W. Marsh is affiliated with the Australian Catholic University in Australia. Their primary fields of study encompass Psychology and Social Sciences, with notable subfields including Social Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Education, Clinical Psychology, and Developmental and Educational Psychology.

Their research focuses on various main topics such as Education, Achievement, and Giftedness; Motivation and Self-Concept in Sports; Early Childhood Education and Development; Grit, Self-Efficacy, and Motivation; School Choice and Performance; Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction; and Psychometric Methodologies and Testing.

Marsh has contributed extensively to the academic community, with frequent publications in several key venues. These include:

  • Journal of Educational Psychology
  • Educational Psychology Review
  • Learning and Instruction
  • Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
  • Contemporary Educational Psychology

Among the recent papers authored or co-authored by Marsh are:

  • "A three-dimensional taxonomy of achievement emotions." (2022), published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
  • "Control-value appraisals, achievement emotions, and foreign language performance: A latent interaction analysis" (2020), published in Learning and Instruction
  • "Psychological Comparison Processes and Self-Concept in Relation to Five Distinct Frame-Of-Reference Effects: Pan-Human Cross-Cultural Generalizability over 68 Countries" (2020), published in European Journal of Personality
  • "EXPLORATORY STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING IN SECOND LANGUAGE RESEARCH" (2022), published in Studies in Second Language Acquisition
  • "The roles of social-emotional skills in students' academic and life success: A multi-informant and multicohort perspective." (2022), published in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Their frequent co-authors comprise:

  • Jiesi Guo
  • Reinhard Pekrun
  • Philip D. Parker
  • Geetanjali Basarkod
  • Theresa Dicke

Herbert W. Marsh has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association since 2012.

Best Publications

  • In Search of Golden Rules: Comment on Hypothesis-Testing Approaches to Setting Cutoff Values for Fit Indexes and Dangers in Overgeneralizing Hu and Bentler's (1999) Findings

    Herbert W. Marsh;Kit-Tai Hau;Zhonglin Wen

  • Goodness-of-fit indexes in confirmatory factor analysis : The effect of sample size

    Herbert W. Marsh;John R. Balla;Roderick P. McDonald

  • Application of confirmatory factor analysis to the study of self-concept: First- and higher order factor models and their invariance across groups.

    Herbert W. Marsh;Dennis Hocevar

  • Self-Concept: Its Multifaceted, Hierarchical Structure

    Herbert W. Marsh;Richard J. Shavelson

  • Students' evaluations of University teaching: Research findings, methodological issues, and directions for future research

    Herbert W. Marsh

  • Development and Validation of a Scale to Measure Optimal Experience: The Flow State Scale

    Susan A. Jackson;Herbert W. Marsh

  • Choosing a multivariate model: Noncentrality and goodness of fit.

    Roderick P. McDonald;Herbert W. Marsh

  • Exploratory Structural Equation Modeling: An Integration of the Best Features of Exploratory and Confirmatory Factor Analysis

    Herbert Warren Marsh;Alexandre J. S. Morin;Phillip David Parker;Gurvinder Kaur

  • Reciprocal Effects of Self-Concept and Performance From a Multidimensional Perspective: Beyond Seductive Pleasure and Unidimensional Perspectives:

    Herbert W. Marsh;Rhonda G. Craven

  • Is More Ever Too Much? The Number of Indicators per Factor in Confirmatory Factor Analysis.

    Herbert W. Marsh;Kit-Tai Hau;John R. Balla;David Grayson

  • Adventure Education and Outward Bound: Out-of-Class Experiences That Make a Lasting Difference

    John Hattie;H. W. Marsh;James T. Neill;Garry E. Richards

  • Academic Self‐Concept, Interest, Grades, and Standardized Test Scores: Reciprocal Effects Models of Causal Ordering

    Herbert W. Marsh;Ulrich Trautwein;Oliver Lüdtke;Olaf Köller

  • Age and sex effects in multiple dimensions of self-concept: Preadolescence to early adulthood.

    Herbert W. Marsh

  • A multidimensional, hierarchical model of self-concept: Theoretical and empirical justification

    Herbert W. Marsh

  • The Relationship Between Research and Teaching: A Meta-Analysis

    John Hattie;Herb Marsh

  • Students' evaluations of university teaching: Dimensionality, reliability, validity, potential baises, and utility.

    Herbert W. Marsh

  • Making students' evaluations of teaching effectiveness effective: The critical issues of validity, bias, and utility.

    Herbert W. Marsh;Lawrence A. Roche

  • Structural equation models of latent interactions: evaluation of alternative estimation strategies and indicator construction.

    Herbert W. Marsh;Zhonglin Wen;Kit-Tai Hau

  • The big-fish-little-pond effect on academic self-concept.

    Herbert W. Marsh

  • An evaluation of incremental fit indices: A clarification of mathematical and empirical properties.

    Herbert W. Marsh;John R. Balla;Kit-Tai Hau

  • A Multifaceted Academic Self-Concept: Its Hierarchical Structure and Its Relation to Academic Achievement

    Herbert W. Marsh;Barbara M. Byrne;Richard J. Shavelson

Frequent Co-Authors

Rhonda Craven
Rhonda Craven Australian Catholic University
Andrew J. Martin
Andrew J. Martin University of New South Wales
Philip D. Parker
Philip D. Parker Australian Catholic University
Alexandre J. S. Morin
Alexandre J. S. Morin Concordia University
Kit-Tai Hau
Kit-Tai Hau Chinese University of Hong Kong
Benjamin Nagengast
Benjamin Nagengast University of Tübingen
Ulrich Trautwein
Ulrich Trautwein University of Tübingen
Oliver Lüdtke
Oliver Lüdtke Leibniz Institute for Science and Mathematics Education
Dennis M. McInerney
Dennis M. McInerney Education University of Hong Kong
Alexander Seeshing Yeung
Alexander Seeshing Yeung Australian Catholic University

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