• Heterogeneity in the development of learning attitudes and its impact on educational and career trajectories.
• Educational-psychological interventions to promote learning attitudes and educational achievement
• Evaluation of interventions in the educational context
• Quality teaching and its correlations with characteristics of teachers and learners

Selected Publications

Parrisius, C., Gaspard, H., Zitzmann, S., Trautwein, U., & Nagengast, B. (2022). The “situative nature” of competence and value beliefs and the predictive power of autonomy support: A multilevel investigation of repeated observations. Journal of Educational Psychology, 114(4), 791–814. https://doi.org/10.1037/edu0000680. https://doi.org/10.1037/edu0000680

Gaspard, H., Parrisius, C., Piesch, H., Kleinhansl, M., Wille, E., Nagengast, B., Trautwein, U., & Hulleman, C. S. (2021). The potential of relevance interventions for scaling up: A cluster-randomized trial testing the effectiveness of a relevance intervention in math classrooms. Journal of Educational Psychology, 113(8), 1507–1528. https://doi.org/10.1037/edu0000663

Gaspard, H., & Lauermann, F. (2021). Emotionally and motivationally supportive classrooms: A state-trait analysis of lesson- and classroom-specific variation in teacher- and student-reported teacher enthusiasm and student engagement. Learning and Instruction, 75, Article 101494. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.learninstruc.2021.101494

Gaspard, H., Lauermann, F., Rose, N., Wigfield, A., & Eccles, J. S. (2020). Cross-domain trajectories of students' ability self-concepts and intrinsic values in math and language arts. Child Development, 91(5), 1800-1818. doi.org/1111/cdev.13343

Parrisius, C., Gaspard, H., Trautwein, U., & Nagengast, B. (2020). The transmission of values from math teachers to their ninth-grade students: Different mechanisms for different value dimensions? Contemporary Educational Psychology, 62, Article 101891. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cedpsych.2020.101891

Gaspard, H., Wille, E., Wormington, S. V., & Hulleman, C. S. (2019). How are upper secondary school students’ expectancy-value profiles associated with achievement and university STEM major? A cross-domain comparison. Contemporary Educational Psychology, 58, 149-162. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cedpsych.2019.02.005

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. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cedpsych.2017.10.003

Gaspard, H., Häfner, I., Parrisius, C., Trautwein, U, & Nagengast, B. (2017). Assessing task values in five subjects during secondary school: Measurement structure and mean level differences across grade level, gender, and academic subject. Contemporary Educational Psychology, 48, 67-84. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cedpsych.2016.09.003

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(9), 1226-1240. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev000002

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(3), 663-677. https://doi.org/10.1037/edu0000003