Tina Wildhagen
Biographic Data
| ID | 235381 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tina Wildhagen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tina |
| FAMILY NAME | Wildhagen |
| SIGNATURE | WILDHAGEN T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Smith College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5852-6107 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 61 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Rise of the First-Generation College Student
In US higher education, the category 'first-generation college student' has become ubiquitous. Students without parents who graduated from college are categorized as such, programs are designed for them, and researchers study them. Used as a proxy for socioeconomic status, this category offers a way for colleges and universities to acknowledge vast resource differences among students while evading direct discussion of social class itself. Researc…
Geographies of Campus Inequality
Not Your Typical Student
Unequal returns to academic credentials as a hidden dimension of race and class inequality in American college enrollments
What's Oppositional Culture Got to Do with It? Moving beyond the Strong Version of the Acting White Hypothesis
Is the acting white hypothesis empirically viable? The strong version of this hypothesis-that African American students are negatively sanctioned by peers for academic success, while their similar white peers are not sanctioned-misses the possibility that some students preemptively pull back academic effort without having received sanctions. This article tests a weak version of the hypothesis-that some academically engaged African American studen…
Capitalizing on Culture
Social reproduction theory suggests that the educational system perpetuates inequality by rewarding the cultural capital of students from privileged social classes. This article reviews the empirical evidence for this view of education, highlighting debates in the field and directions for future research. Questions of exactly what cultural attributes constitute cultural capital, why cultural capital is linked to improved educational outcomes, and…
Saving America's High Schools
Why Does Cultural Capital Matter for High School Academic Performance? An Empirical Assessment of Teacher-Selection and Self-Selection Mechanisms as Explanations of the Cultural Capital Effect
Many scholars have argued that students' cultural capital has a positive effect on academic performance because students with cultural capital have better relationships with their teachers (the “teacher-selection” effect). However, theory also points to the importance of a “self-selection” effect, whereby students' cultural capital has a positive effect on academic performance by enhancing students' expectations for future educational attainment.…
The Measurement of School Engagement
The purposes of this study were to (a) assess the measurement of school engagement in prior research that used the National Educational Longitudinal Study of 1988 (NELS:88), (b) systematically develop an improved measurement model for school engagement, and (c) examine the measurement invariance of this model across racial and ethnic groups. Results from confirmatory factor analyses indicated that school engagement should be measured as a multidi…
Factors Leading to Clergy Job Search in Two Protestant Denominations
Why Does Cultural Capital Matter for High School Academic Performance? An Empirical Assessment of Teacher-Selection and Self-Selection Mechanisms as Explanations of the Cultural Capital Effect
Many scholars have argued that students' cultural capital has a positive effect on academic performance because students with cultural capital have better relationships with their teachers (the “teacher-selection” effect). However, theory also points to the importance of a “self-selection” effect, whereby students' cultural capital has a positive effect on academic performance by enhancing students' expectations for future educational attainment.…
Not Your Typical Student
What's Oppositional Culture Got to Do with It? Moving beyond the Strong Version of the Acting White Hypothesis
Is the acting white hypothesis empirically viable? The strong version of this hypothesis-that African American students are negatively sanctioned by peers for academic success, while their similar white peers are not sanctioned-misses the possibility that some students preemptively pull back academic effort without having received sanctions. This article tests a weak version of the hypothesis-that some academically engaged African American studen…
Capitalizing on Culture
Social reproduction theory suggests that the educational system perpetuates inequality by rewarding the cultural capital of students from privileged social classes. This article reviews the empirical evidence for this view of education, highlighting debates in the field and directions for future research. Questions of exactly what cultural attributes constitute cultural capital, why cultural capital is linked to improved educational outcomes, and…
Factors Leading to Clergy Job Search in Two Protestant Denominations
Unequal returns to academic credentials as a hidden dimension of race and class inequality in American college enrollments
Factors Leading to Clergy Job Search in Two Protestant Denominations
The Measurement of School Engagement
The purposes of this study were to (a) assess the measurement of school engagement in prior research that used the National Educational Longitudinal Study of 1988 (NELS:88), (b) systematically develop an improved measurement model for school engagement, and (c) examine the measurement invariance of this model across racial and ethnic groups. Results from confirmatory factor analyses indicated that school engagement should be measured as a multidi…
Why Does Cultural Capital Matter for High School Academic Performance? An Empirical Assessment of Teacher-Selection and Self-Selection Mechanisms as Explanations of the Cultural Capital Effect
Many scholars have argued that students' cultural capital has a positive effect on academic performance because students with cultural capital have better relationships with their teachers (the “teacher-selection” effect). However, theory also points to the importance of a “self-selection” effect, whereby students' cultural capital has a positive effect on academic performance by enhancing students' expectations for future educational attainment.…
Capitalizing on Culture
Social reproduction theory suggests that the educational system perpetuates inequality by rewarding the cultural capital of students from privileged social classes. This article reviews the empirical evidence for this view of education, highlighting debates in the field and directions for future research. Questions of exactly what cultural attributes constitute cultural capital, why cultural capital is linked to improved educational outcomes, and…
Saving America's High Schools
What's Oppositional Culture Got to Do with It? Moving beyond the Strong Version of the Acting White Hypothesis
Is the acting white hypothesis empirically viable? The strong version of this hypothesis-that African American students are negatively sanctioned by peers for academic success, while their similar white peers are not sanctioned-misses the possibility that some students preemptively pull back academic effort without having received sanctions. This article tests a weak version of the hypothesis-that some academically engaged African American studen…
Unequal returns to academic credentials as a hidden dimension of race and class inequality in American college enrollments
Not Your Typical Student
Geographies of Campus Inequality
The Rise of the First-Generation College Student
In US higher education, the category 'first-generation college student' has become ubiquitous. Students without parents who graduated from college are categorized as such, programs are designed for them, and researchers study them. Used as a proxy for socioeconomic status, this category offers a way for colleges and universities to acknowledge vast resource differences among students while evading direct discussion of social class itself. Researc…
Sociology (9 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Mathematics education (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · School Choice and Performance (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Higher Education Research Studies (4 works) · Social science (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works)