# Benjamin Nagengast

Benjamin Nagengast is a German educational psychologist. He has been Full Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Tübingen, Germany, since November 2012. He has been vice-director of LEAD Graduate School & Research Network since 2012, and vice-director of Hector Research Institute of Education Sciences and Psychology at Tübingen University since 2014.

## Life

Nagengast was born in Mainz and grew up near Frankfurt, Germany. After finishing high school, he studied psychology at Heidelberg University and afterwards social psychology and quantitative psychology at the Ohio State University, Columbus, US. In 2006, he graduated in Psychology and started working as a research assistant at the department of methodology and evaluation research at the University of Jena, Germany. In 2009 he earned his Ph.D. at the University of Jena and moved to Oxford University where he worked at the department of education as a postdoctoral research fellow under the lead of Herbert W. Marsh. In 2011 he became assistant professor at Tübingen University and in 2012 earned his habilitation, with studies focusing on substantive and methodological advances in education sciences and educational psychology.

## Research

Nagengast's research focuses on different aspects of education, among them self-concept, communication of values, the effects of educational interventions in classrooms and research methodology. He is reviewer for numerous international scientific journals and editorial board member at the Journal of Educational Psychology (since 2013) and Review of Education (since 2017).

## Publications

* Nagengast, B., Brisson, B.M., Hulleman, C.S., Gaspard, H., Häfner, I., & Trautwein, U. (2018). Learning more from education intervention studies: Estimating complier average causal effects in a relevance intervention. Journal of Experimental Education, 86, 105–123. doi:10.1080/00220973.2017.1289359
* Nagengast, B., & Trautwein, U. (2015). The prospects and limitations of latent variable models in educational psychology. In E.M. Anderman & L. Corno (Eds.), Handbook of Educational Psychology (3rd ed.) (p. 41-58). New York: Routledge.
* Gaspard., H., Dicke, A.-L., Flunger, B., Brisson, B.M., Häfner, I., Nagengast, B., & Trautwein, U. (2015). Fostering adolescents' value beliefs for mathematics with a relevance intervention in the classroom. Developmental Psychology, 51, 1226–1240. doi: 10.1037/dev0000028
* Gaspard, H., Dicke, A.-L., Flunger, B., Schreier, B., Häfner, I., Trautwein, U., & Nagengast, B. (2015). More value through greater differentiation: Gender differences in value beliefs about math. Journal of Educational Psychology, 107, 663–677. doi: 10.1037/edu0000003
* Nagengast, B., Marsh, H.W., Chiorri, C., & Hau, K.-T. (2014). Character building or subversive consequences of employment during high school: Causal effects based on propensity score models for categorical treatments. Journal of Educational Psychology, 106, 584–603. doi: 10.1037/a0035615
* Nagengast, B., Trautwein, U., Kelava, A., & Lüdtke, O. (2013). Synergistic effects of expectancy and value. The case for a within-person perspective. Multivariate Behavioral Research, 48, 428–460. doi: 10.1080/00273171.2013.775060
* Nagengast, B., & Marsh, H.W. (2012). Big fish in little ponds aspire more: Mediation and cross-cultural generalizability of school-average ability effects on self-concept and career aspirations in science. Journal of Educational Psychology, 104, 1033–1053. doi: 10.1037/a0027697
* Nagengast, B., Marsh, H.W., Scalas, L.F., Xu, M., Hau, K.-T, & Trautwein, U. (2011). Who took the “x” out of expectancy-value theory? A psychological mystery, a substantive-methodological synergy, and a cross-national generalization. Psychological Science, 22, 1058–1066. doi:10.1177/0956797611415540
* Marsh, H.W., Nagengast, B., & Morin, A.J.S. (2013). Measurement invariance of Big-Five factor structure over the life span: Exploratory structural equation modelling tests of gender, age, plasticity, maturity and La Dolce Vita effects. Developmental Psychology, 49, 1194–1218. doi:10.1037/a0026913