Hector-Institut für Empirische Bildungsforschung

Publikationen / Publications Prof. Dr. Benjamin Nagengast

Artikel/Articles

In press

  • Hübner, N., Trautwein, U., & Nagengast, B. (in press). Should I stay or should I go? Predictors and effects of studying abroad during high school. Learning and Instruction.
  • Nagy, G., Nagengast, B., Frey, A., Becker, M., & Rose, N. (in press). A multilevel study of position effects in PISA achievement tests: Student- and school-level predictors in the German tracked school system. Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice. doi:10.1080/0969594X.2018.1449100
  • Marsh, H.W., Guo, J., Parker, P., Nagengast, B., Asparouhov, T., Muthén, B.O., & Dicke, T. (in press). What to do when scalar invariance fails: The extended alignment method for multi-group factor analysis comparison of latent means across many groups. Psychological Methods. doi:10.1037/met0000113
  • Häfner, I., Flunger, B., Dicke, A.-L., Gaspard., H., Brisson, B.M., Nagengast, B., & Trautwein, U. (in press). The role of family characteristics for students’ academic outcomes: A person-centered approach. Child Development.
  • Golle, J.K., Zettler, I., Rose, N., Trautwein, U., Hasselhorn, M., & Nagengast, B. (in press). Effectiveness of a “Grass Roots” statewide enrichment program for gifted elementary school children. Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness. doi:10.1080/19345747.2017.1402396

2020

  • Hübner, N., Wagner, W., Hochweber, J., Neumann, M., & Nagengast, B. (2020). Comparing apples and oranges: Curricular intensification reforms can change the meaning of students’ grades! Journal of Educational Psychology, 112(1), 204–220. https://doi.org/10.1037/edu0000351

2018

  • Hübner, N., Wagner, W., Nagengast, B., & Trautwein, U. (2018). Putting all students in one basket does not produce equality: Gender-specific effects of curricular intensification in upper secondary school. School Effectiveness and School Improvement. doi: 10.1080/09243453.2018.1504801
  • Suhlmann, M., Sassenberg, K., Nagengast, B., & Trautwein, U. (2018). Belonging mediates effects of student-university fit on well-being, motivation, and dropout intention. Social Psychology, 49, 16-28. doi:10.1027/1864-9335/a000325
  • Nagengast, B., Brisson, B.M., Hulleman, C.S., Gaspard, H., Häfner, I., & Trautwein, U. (2018). Learning more from educational interventions studies: Estimating complier average causal effects in a relevance intervention. Journal of Experimental Education, 86, 105-123. doi:10.1080/00220973.2017.1289359
  • Gaspard, H., Wigfield, A., Jiang, Y., Nagengast, B., Trautwein, U., & Marsh, H. W. (2018). Dimensional comparisons: How academic track students’ achievements are related to their expectancy and value beliefs across multiple domains. Contemporary Educational Psychology, 52, 1-14. doi:10.1016/j.cedpsych.2017.10.003

2017

2016

  • Guo, J. Nagengast, B., Marsh, H.W., Kelava, A., Gaspard, H., Brandt, H., Cambria, J.M., Flunger, B., Dicke A.-L., Häfner, I., Brisson, B. M., & Trautwein, U. (2016). Probing the unique contributions of self-concept, task values and their interactions using multiple value facets and multiple academic outcomes. AERA Open, 2, No. 1, 1-20. doi:10.1177/2332858415626884 Open Access
  • Gaspard., H., Dicke, A.-L., Flunger, B., B Nagengast, B. (2016). Side effects of motivational interventions? Effects of a motivational intervention in math classrooms on motivation in verbal domains. AERA Open, 2, No. 2, 1-14. doi:10.1177/2332858416649168 Open Access

2015

  • Rose, N., von Davier, M., & Nagengast, B. (2015). Commonalities and differences in IRT-based methods for nonignorable item-nonresponses. Psychological Test and Assessment Modeling, 57, 472-498. Open Access
  • Flunger, B., Trautwein, U., Nagengast, B., Lüdtke, O., Niggli, A., & Schnyder, I. (2015). The Janus-Faced Nature of Time Spent on Homework: Using latent profile analyses to predict academic achievement over a school year. Learning and Instruction, 39, 97-106. doi: 10.1016/j.learninstruc.2015.05.008
  • Friedrich, A., Flunger, B., Nagengast, B., Jonkmann, K., Schmitz, B., & Trautwein, U. (2015). Pygmalion effects in the classroom: Teacher expectancy effects on students' math achievement. Contemporary Educational Psychology, 41, 1-12. doi:10.1016/j.cedpsych.2014.10.006
  • Marsh, H.W., Lüdtke, O., Nagengast, B., Trautwein, U., Abduljabbar, A.S., Abdelfattah, F., & Jansen, M. (2015). Dimensional Comparison Theory: Paradoxical relations between self-beliefs and achievements in multiple domains. Learning and Instruction, 35, 16-32. doi:10.1016/j.learninstruc.2014.08.005
  • Itzek-Greulich, H., Flunger, B., Vollmer, C., Nagengast, B., Rehm, M., & Trautwein, U. (2015). Effects of a science center outreach lab on school students' achievement - Are student lab visits needed when they teach what students can learn at school? Learning and Instruction, 38, 43-52. doi:10.1016/j.learninstruc.2015.03.00
  • Televantou, I., Marsh, H.W., Kyriakides, L., Nagengast, B., Fletcher, J., & Malmberg, L.-E. (2015). Phantom effects in school composition research: Consequences of failure to control biases due to measurement error in traditional multilevel models. School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 26, 75-101. doi:10.1080/09243453.2013.871302
  • Marsh, H.W., Abduljabbar, A.S., Parker, P., Morin, A.J.S., Abdelfattah, F., Nagengast, B., Möller, J., Abu-Hillal, M.M. (2015). The internal/external frame of reference model: Age-cohort and cross-national differences in paradoxical relations between TIMSS mathematics and science achievement, self-concept and intrinsic motivation. American Educational Research Journal, 52, 168-202. doi:10.3102/0002831214549453
  • Marsh, H.W., Abduljabbar, A.S., Parker, P., Morin, A.J.S., Abdelfattah, F., Nagengast, B., Abu-Hillal, M.M. (2015). The Big-Fish-Little-Pond Effect: Generalizability of social comparison processes over two age cohorts from western, asian and middle-eastern islamic countries. Journal of Educational Psychology, 107, 258-271. doi: 10.1037/a0037485
  • 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 Full Text
  • 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 Full Text

2014

  • 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
  • Kelava, A., Nagengast, B., & Brandt, H. (2014). A nonlinear structural equation mixture modeling approach for non-normally distributed latent predictor variables. Structural Equation Modeling, 21, 468-481. doi: 10.1080/10705511.2014.915379
  • Mayer, A., Nagengast, B., Fletcher, J., & Steyer, R. (2014). Analyzing average and conditional effects with multigroup multilevel structural equation models. Frontiers in Psychology, 5, 304. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00304
  • Morin, A.J.S., Marsh, H.W., & Nagengast, B., & Scalas, L.F. (2014). Doubly latent multilevel analyses of classroom climate: An illustration. Journal of Experimental Education, 82, 143-167. doi: 10.1080/00220973.2013.769412
  • Schurtz, I.M., Pfost, M., Nagengast, B., & Artelt, C. (2014). The impact of social and dimensional comparisons on student subject-interest in mathematics and english. Learning and Instruction, 34, 32-41. doi: 10.1016/j.learninstruc.2014.08.001
  • Schreier, B., Dicke, A.-L., Gaspard, H., Häfner, I., Flunger, B., Lüdtke, O., Nagengast, B., & Trautwein, U. (2014). Der Wert der Mathematik im Klassenzimmer: Die Bedeutung relevanzbezogener Unterrichtsmerkmale für die Wertüberzeugungen der Schülerinnen und Schüler. Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft, 17, 225-255. doi: 10.1007/s11618-014-0537-y
  • Dumont, H., Trautwein, U., Nagy, G., & Nagengast, B. (2014). Quality of parental homework involvement: Predictors and reciprocal relationships with academic performance. Journal of Educational Psychology, 106, 144-161. doi: 10.1037/a0034100
  • Scalas, L.F., Marsh, H.W., Morin, A.J.S., & Nagengast, B., & (2014). Why is support for the Jamesian actual-ideal discrepancy model so elusive? A new latent variable approach. Personality and Individual Differences, 69, 62-68. doi: 10.1016/j.paid.2014.05.010
  • Scalas, L.F., Morin, A.J.S., Marsh, H.W., & Nagengast, B. (2014). Importance models of the physical self: Improved methodology fails to support the Jamesian model and provides support for a normative importance model. European Journal of Social Psychology, 44, 154-174. doi: 10.1002/ejsp.2001
  • Thomas, I.T., Marsh, H.W., Gonzalez-Roma, V., Valls, V., & Nagengast, B. (2014). Testing Measurement invariance across Spanish and English versions of the Physical Self-Description Questionnaire (PSDQ): an application of Exploratory Structural Equation Modeling. Journal of Sports and Exercise Psychology, 36, 179-88. doi: 10.1123/jsep.2013-0070
  • Marsh, H. W., Abduljabbar, A. S., Parker, P. D., Morin, A. J. S., Abdelfattah, F., & Nagengast, B. (2014). The Big-Fish-Little-Pond Effect in Mathematics: A cross-cultural comparison of U.S. and Saudi Arabian TIMSS responses. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 45, 777–804. doi:10.1177/0022022113519858

2013

  • 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., & Hau, K.-T. (2013). Effects of single-sex schooling in high school: A comparison of analysis of covariance and propensity score methods. Sex Roles. doi: 10.1007/s11199-013-0261-8
  • 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
  • Marsh, H.W., Lüdtke, O., Nagengast, B. , Morin, A.J.S., & von Davier, M. (2013). Why item parcels are (almost) never appropriate: Two wrongs do not make a right—camouflaging misspecification with item parcels in CFA models. Psychological Methods, 18, 257-284. doi: 10.1037/a0032773
  • Friedrich, A., Jonkmann, K., Nagengast, B. , Schmitz, B., & Trautwein, U. (2013). Teacher and student perceptions of self-regulation and math competence: Differentiation and agreement. Learning and Individual Differences, 27, 26-34. doi: 10.1016/j.lindif.2013.06.005
  • Arens, A.K., Yeung, A.S., Nagengast, B., & Hasselhorn, M. (2013). Relations between self-worth and academic self-concept of German elementary and secondary school students. Educational Psychology. doi: 10.1080/01443410.2013.772772
  • Scalas, L.F., Marsh, H.W., Nagengast, B., & Morin, A.J.S. (2013). Latent variable approaches to the Jamesian model of importance weighted-averages. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 39, 100-114. doi: 10.1177/0146167212465321
  • Morin, A.J.S., Maïano, C., Marsh, H.W., Nagengast, B. , & Janosz, M. (2013). School life and adolescents’ self-esteem trajectories. Child Development, 84, 1967-1988. doi: 10.1111/cdev.12089
  • Marsh, H.W., Abduljabbar, A.S., Abu-Hilal, M., Morin, A.J.S., Abdelfattah, F., Leung, K.C., Xu, M.K., Nagengast, B., & Parker, P. (2013). Factor structure, discriminant and convergent validity of TIMSS math and science motivation measures: A comparison of USA and Saudi Arabia. Journal of Educational Psychology, 105, 108-128. doi: 10.1037/a0029907

2012

  • 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. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1037/a0027697
  • Kelava, A., & Nagengast, B. (2012). A Bayesian model for the estimation of latent interaction and quadratic effects when latent variables are non-normally distributed. Multivariate Behavioral Research, 47, 717-742.
  • Marsh, H.W., Lüdtke, O., Nagengast, B., Trautwein, U., Morin, A.J.S., Adbuljabbar, A., & Köller, O. (2012). Classroom climate and contextual effects. Methodological issues in the evaluation of group-level effects. Educational Psychologist, 47, 106-124.
  • Trautwein, U., Marsh, H.W., Nagengast, B., Lüdtke, O., Nagy, G., & Jonkmann, K. (2012). Probing for the Multiplicative Term in Modern Expectancy-Value Theory: A Latent Interaction Modeling Study. Journal of Educational Psychology, 104, 763-777. doi: 10.1037/a0027470


2011

  • 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.
  • Nagengast, B., & Marsh, H.W. (2011). The negative effect of school-average ability on science self-concept in the UK, the UK countries, and the world: The Big-Fish-Little-Pond-Effect for PISA 2006. Educational Psychology, 31, 629-656.
  • Marsh, H.W., Nagengast, B., Morin, A.J.S., Parada, R.H., Craven, R.G., & Hamilton, L. (2011). The multidimensional structure of bullying and victimization: An application of exploratory structural equation modelling. Journal of Educational Psychology, 103, 701-732.
  • Marsh, H.W., Nagengast, B., Fletcher, J., & Televantou, I. (2011). Assessing educational effectiveness. Policy implications from diverse areas of reseach. Fiscal Studies, 32, 279-295.
  • Morin, A.J.S., Maïano, C., Nagengast, B., Marsh, H.W., Morizot, J., & Janosz, M. (2011). General growth mixture analysis of adolescents’ developmental trajectories of anxiety: The impact of untested invariance assumptions on substantive interpretations. Structural Equation Modeling, 18, 613-648.
  • Marsh, H.W., Ginns, P., Morin, A.J.S., Nagengast, B., & Martin, A.J. (2011). Course Experience Questionnaire (CEQ): Use of student ratings to benchmark Australian universities. Journal of Educational Psychology, 103, 733-748.
  • Marsh, H.W., Liem, G.A.D., Martin, A.J., Morin, A.J.S., & Nagengast, B. (2011). Measurement fruitfulness of exploratory structural equation modelling (ESEM) in addressing key substantive issues in motivation and engagement research. Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment.
  • Morin, A.J.S., Maïano, C., Marsh, H.W., Janosz, M., & Nagengast, B. (2011). The longitudinal interplay of adolescents’ self-esteem and body image: A conditional autoregressive latent trajectory analysis. Multivariate Behavioral Research, 46, 157-201.


2010

  • Marsh, H.W., Scalas, L.F., & Nagengast, B. (2010). Longitudinal tests of competing factor structures for the Rosenberg self-esteem scale: Traits, ephemeral artefacts, and stable response styles. Psychological Assessment, 22, 366-381.
  • Marsh, H.W., Lüdtke, O., Muthén, B.O., Asparouhov, T., Morin, A.J.S., Trautwein, U., & Nagengast, B. (2010). A new look at the Big-Five factor structure through exploratory structural equation modelling. Psychological Assessment, 22, 471-491.


2009 und früher

  • Marsh, H.W., Lüdtke, O., Robitzsch, A., Trautwein, U., Asparouhov, T., Muthén, B.O., & Nagengast, B. (2009). Doubly-latent models of school contextual effects: Integrating multilevel and structural equation approaches to control measurement and sampling error. Multivariate Behavioral Research, 44, 764-802.
  • Walther, E., & Nagengast, B. (2006). Evaluative conditioning and the awareness issue: Assessing contingency awareness with the four-picture recognition test. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 32, 454-459.
  • Walther, E., Nagengast, B., & Trasselli, C. (2005). Evaluative conditioning and social psychology: Facts and speculations. Cognition and Emotion, 19, 175-196.

Kapitel in Monographien/Book Chapters

  • Trautwein, U., Roberts, B.W., Nagengast, B., & Lüdtke, O. (in press). Predicting academic effort: The conscientiousness x interest compensation (CONIC) model. In K.A. Renninger (Ed.), Cambridge Handbook on Motivation and Learning. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Nagengast, B., & Rose, N. (2016). Quantitative Bildungsforschung und Assessments. In R. Tippelt & B. Schmidt-Hertha (Eds.), Handbuch Bildungsforschung (4th ed.). Wiesbaden: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-531-20002-6_28-1
  • Nagy, G., Nagengast, B., Frey, A., Becker, M., & Rose, N. (2016). Itempositionseffekte in Large-Scale-Assessments. In Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (Ed.), Forschung in Ankopplung an Large-Scale Assesments (p. 121-139). Berlin: Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung.
  • Göllner, R., Wagner, W., Klieme, W., Lüdtke, O., Nagengast, B., & Trautwein, U. (2016). Erfassung der Unterrichtsqualität mithilfe von Schülerurteilen: Chancen, Grenzen und Forschungsperspektiven. In Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (Ed.), Forschung in Ankopplung an Large-Scale Assesments (p. 63-82). Berlin: Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung.
  • 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.
  • Nagengast, B., & Trautwein, U. (2015). Advances in latent variable modeling in educational psychology. In E. Anderman & L. Corno (Eds.), APA Handbook of Educational Psychology (3rd ed.). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
  • Trautwein, U., Lüdtke, O., Nagengast, B., & Flunger, B. (2015). Why researchers’ time was spent inefficiently. Motivation is the key construct in homework research. In F. Guay, D.M. McInerney, R. Craven & H.W. Marsh (Eds.), International advances in self research (Volume 5).
 Self-concept, motivation and identity: Underpinning success with research and practice. New York: Information Age.
  • Marsh, H.W., Möller, J., Parker, P., Xu, M.K., Nagengast, B., & Pekrun, R. (2015). Internal/external frame of reference model. In K. Salmelo-Aro & J.S. Eccles (Hrsg.), International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences (2nd ed.). Amsterdam: Elsevier.
  • Nagengast, B., & Marsh, H.W. (2014). Motivation and engagement in science around the globe: Testing measurement invariance with multigroup structural equation models across 57 countries using PISA 2006. In L. Rutkowski, M. von Davier, & D. Rutkowski (Eds.), Analysis of International Large-Scale Assessment Data. New York: Taylor & Francis.
  • Trautwein, U., Nagengast, B. , Marsh, H.W., Gaspard, H., Dicke, A.-L., Lüdtke, O., & Jonkmann, K. (2013). From expectancy-value theory to expectancy-values theory? In D.M. McInerney, R.G. Craven, H.W. Marsh & F. Guay (Eds.), Theory Driving Research: New Wave Perspectives on Self-Processes and Human Development (p. 233-249). New York: Information Age.
  • Marsh, H.W., Hau, K.-T, Wen, Z., Nagengast, B., & Morin, A.J.S. (2013). Moderation. In T.D. Little (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Quantitative Methods - Vol. 2 (p.361-386). New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Morin, A.J.S, Marsh, H.W., & Nagengast, B. (2013). Exploratory structural equation modeling. In G.R. Hancock & R.O. Mueller (Eds.), Structural Equation Modeling. A second course (2nd ed.) (p.395-438). Greenwich, CT: Information Age.
  • Marsh, H.W., Wen, Z., Hau, K.-T., & Nagengast, B. (2013). Structural equation models of latent interaction and quadratic effects. In G.R. Hancock & R.O. Mueller (Eds.), Structural Equation Modeling. A second course (2nd ed.) (p.267-308). Greenwich, CT: Information Age.
  • Marsh, H.W., Wen, Z., Nagengast, B., & Hau, K.-T. (2012). Structural equation models of latent interactions. In R.D. Hoyle (Ed.), Handbook of Structural Equation Modeling (p. 436-458.). New York: Guilford Press.