Biography
Nestor Tulagan is a 2nd year Ph.D. student specializing in Learning, Teaching, Cognition, and Development (LTCD). He is interested in how parents—as primary socializers—shape the motivational and academic outcomes of ethnic-minority adolescents. He is particularly interested in the influence of socioeconomic status and culture on the links between parental academic socialization practices and children’s subsequent beliefs, choices, and performance in school. By exploring the links in these dimensions, he hopes to identify the unique motivational pathways that underlie educational trajectories and foster academic resilience in historically underrepresented populations.
Nestor graduated summa cum laude from the University of California, Irvine with a BA in Psychology and Social Behavior. His interest in the field of education and psychology developed after being involved in various research labs at UCI and UC San Diego, where he engaged in research that explored various domains, including language-learning, interpersonal closeness development, and cognitive test-taking methods. Additionally, he spent a year as a K-12 tutor and manager at a community learning center in San Diego County, gradually developing his current research interests from observing the interactions between parents and children in addressing various educational difficulties.
He is currently involved in a program of studies under the direction of Dr. Jacquelynne S. Eccles on the family management behaviors of African-American parents, examining the strategies that they implement to both prevent their worries and promote their academic expectations for their children and how these strategies work in conjunction to effect positive academic development as adolescents move into and through high school. He is also working with Dr. Sandra Simpkins in her Families and Science Project, looking at the role of science-related discussions between Mexican-origin parents and high school students as a form of academic socialization and how it may shape students’ science-related motivational beliefs and outcomes.
Nestor is a recipient of the 2016 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (Abstract) , the 2015 Eugene Cota-Robles Fellowship, and the 2015 Provost Ph.D. Fellowship.
Nestor Tulagan is a 2nd year Ph.D. student specializing in Learning, Teaching, Cognition, and Development (LTCD). He is interested in how parents—as primary socializers—shape the motivational and academic outcomes of ethnic-minority adolescents. He is particularly interested in the influence of socioeconomic status and culture on the links between parental academic socialization practices and children’s subsequent beliefs, choices, and performance in school. By exploring the links in these dimensions, he hopes to identify the unique motivational pathways that underlie educational trajectories and foster academic resilience in historically underrepresented populations.
Nestor graduated summa cum laude from the University of California, Irvine with a BA in Psychology and Social Behavior. His interest in the field of education and psychology developed after being involved in various research labs at UCI and UC San Diego, where he engaged in research that explored various domains, including language-learning, interpersonal closeness development, and cognitive test-taking methods. Additionally, he spent a year as a K-12 tutor and manager at a community learning center in San Diego County, gradually developing his current research interests from observing the interactions between parents and children in addressing various educational difficulties.
He is currently involved in a program of studies under the direction of Dr. Jacquelynne S. Eccles on the family management behaviors of African-American parents, examining the strategies that they implement to both prevent their worries and promote their academic expectations for their children and how these strategies work in conjunction to effect positive academic development as adolescents move into and through high school. He is also working with Dr. Sandra Simpkins in her Families and Science Project, looking at the role of science-related discussions between Mexican-origin parents and high school students as a form of academic socialization and how it may shape students’ science-related motivational beliefs and outcomes.
Nestor is a recipient of the 2016 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (Abstract) , the 2015 Eugene Cota-Robles Fellowship, and the 2015 Provost Ph.D. Fellowship.
