AERA 26 Div C,2b: Learning & motivation in social & cultural contexts program for 4/10 11:45am-1:15pm PT. Nested Realities: School, Society, and Transformation in Education (Table 1)Roundtable. JW Marriott L.A. LIVE, Ground Floor, Gold 4. Papers: 1.Contextualizing Self-Efficacy: How Bilingualism, Family SES, and School Environment Shape Mathematics Beliefs in U.S. 4th Graders 2.A Multilevel Analysis of Socioeconomic Status Disparities: The Hole or Schoot context in Shaping Student Outcomes 3.Multilevel Analysis of the Relationship between School Community Member Relationships and Students' Cognitive Competencies: A Comparative Study of Korea and the United States 4.Failure to Learn: Intra-Disciplinarity as a Process 5.HistoFuturity As a Metatheory of Educational Change 1:45-3:15pm PT. Fostering Engagement for All: Advancing Socioculturally Inclusive Theory, Research, and Practice in Student Engagement-Workshop. Westin Bonaventure, Lvl 3, Hollywood Ballroom. Papers: 1.School Dropout Process from a Sociocultural Lens: A Life-Course Engagement-Resilience Model for Immigrant-Background Students 2.Reframing Engagement: A Sociocultural Approach to Learning, Behavioral Climate, and Developmental Equity 3.Parent Socialization of Student Engagement: The Role of Culture, Ethnicity, and Socioeconomic Status 4.Teacher Influences on Student Engagement: Integrating the Classic, the Current, and the Cultural 5.Mapping Belonging and Moving from the Monolithic to the Malleable: Implications for Student Engagement 6.Cultural Pathways to Flow: Parental Influences Shaping Engagement in Learning 7.Agentic Engagement: Sociocultural Supports and Thwarts 8.Student Momentary Engagement in the Life Course: A Sociocultural Developmental Perspective 9.A Stridently Situative Approach to Inclusive Engagement and Assessment 10.Critical Racial Third Spaces: Attending to Racialized Realities to Honor Student Engagement 11.Sociocultural Considerations for Engagement in Out-of-School Programs

AERA 2026 Division C Section 2b: Learning & motivation in social & cultural contexts program for Friday, April 10th. 1:45 - 3:15 pm PDT. **Cosponsoring with Division C, 1e: Engineering and Computer Science** Using AI to Learn in Multi-lingual Contexts (Table 2) - Roundtable. JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Floor: Ground Floor, Gold 4. 1:45 - 3:15 pm PDT. **Cosponsoring with Division C, 1e: Engineering and Computer Science** Examining the Use of Generative AI in Educational Contexts - Poster. Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level Two, Poster Hall - Exhibit Hall A. 3:45 - 5:15 pm PDT. Building New Worlds: Constructing Supportive Spaces for Historically Marginalized Students and Faculty of Color - Paper. Westin Bonaventure, Floor: Lobby Level, La Cienega. Papers include: 1. Im Talkin' Bout ... Innit: Black Girls Creating and Building New World in the Third Space 2. Asset-Based Frameworks to Examine the Belonging Experiences of Black and Latine Students: A Narrative Review - Brooke Harris-T Asset-Based Frameworks to Examine the Belonging Experiences of Black and Latine Students: A Narrative Review 3. Centering Relationships for Student Support in an Underserved School Context 4. Behind the Mask and Beneath the Armor: Engineering Faculty of Color Defining and Coping with Whiteness

Today @drbrookeedu.bsky.social and I are featuring the events set for #AERA2025 Div C Sec 2B to be held on Fri (4/10)! Just look at those titles 😍 @aera-motsig.bsky.social @aeradivcgrad.bsky.social #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky

This is one of my favorite AERA events and I’m so very excited to be one of the researchers hosting!!!! Please join me for a wonderful get together in LA.

If Bad Bunny can cover the history of Puerto Rico, colonialism, transatlantic slavery, hemispheric consciousness, as well as contemporary life and politics in under 14 minutes, you can do your 15- or 20-minute conference presentation with time to spare.

I heart data

The supplementary info has tons more information about each reviewed study and their measures. We also zoom in on the size of gender gaps by grade level, STEM field, and racial/ethnic groups in the mega-analysis. We hope this is helpful for future research in this area! (7/N)

Loved being part of this project led by @yekim.bsky.social - anyone interested in motivational regulation should check it out!

Loved working on this paper with @pnbeymer.bsky.social and Katie Muenks! very cool examination of coursework both in physics and in other courses shaping weekly motivation.

Happy #CSEdWeek! Since 2020, I’ve been sharing some of our lab’s research on gender equity in CS to celebrate. Despite progress in access/participation, disparities remain in K-12 CS education. (1/12) #WomeninSTEM #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky #DevPsychSky #SocialPsyc #EduSky #CompSky #GirlsLeadSTEM

Bold, Humble, Collaborative, and Virtuous: The Future of Theory Development in Educational Psychology - Educational Psychology Review Throughout 2023 and 2024, we served as co-guest editors of a topical collection in Educational Psychology Review on The Past, Present, and Future of Theory Development in Educational Psychology. In th...

Theory-building in ed psych is messy, collaborative, & needs boldness + humility. With @krisarob.bsky.social, we show how real-world problems spark theories, why supporting deep, creative thinking matters, and why we need to support early career theorists. #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky

Investigating academic and demographic similarities to career role models for motivating diverse college students in STEM Similar role models can be powerful tools to motivate participation in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) disciplines, but it is unclea…

🚨 New Open Access Publication Alert! 🚨

I’m so excited to share a paper based on my dissertation research 😎 So thankful for @emilyqr.bsky.social’s support on this one!

🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Cheating Has Become Normal Faculty members are overwhelmed, and the solutions aren’t clear.

To solve this problem, there are things individual students need to do & there are things higher education & society need to do. The latter two need to decrease the pressures placed on students' time, increase the value & meaning of what they teach, & emphasize long-term learning not punishments.

Very excited about this paper! And about getting to work with this dream team.

I’m so very honored to win the Richard Snow award for early contributions from APA Division 15 this year!

And I am amazed to be included with these two scholars. Huge congrats to @drteyar.bsky.social for a great talk today and @carltonfong.bsky.social for leading the way last year!

#edpsychjobs great job opportunity for motivation scholars at UGA! This is my former position and I’m happy to answer questions about it.

So honored to give a keynote talk to open up the SABER conference today! Loved having a chance to share my work about life science student motivation for career choices. Now, on to enjoying the conference!

Screenshot of title page of an article published in the Journal of Educational Psychology titled "Switching Within STEM: Examining the Motivational Concerns That College Students Report Considering When Changing Career Plans Within STEM Fields"

I really like this study of the reasons college students move from one STEM major to another, particularly its focus on both the attractive aspects of the new major AND their disenchantments with their old major. Both parts are important. #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky
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Very excited about this publication with @yinchen.bsky.social around how high school students think about STEM role models!

Yayyyyy!!!!!!!! Soooo exciting and so well deserved.

2026 AERA ANNUAL MEETING CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS Los Angeles, California April 8–12

The #AERA2026 Call for Submissions is now open! The deadline for submissions is July 25. www.aera.net/Events-Meeti...

Trump officials take steps toward a radically different NSF Efforts to shrink staff, budget, and focus have alarmed members of Congress

🧪 The NSF grant terminations hit women, racial & ethnic minorities, and those with disabilities the hardest.

E.g.:

--Female PIs were 58% of canceled grants (but 34% of all active grants)

--Black PIs were 17% of canceled grants (but 4% as base rate)

A closer look shows this is structural... 🧵

Precursors of students’ cost perceptions: Identifying proximal and distal predictors Studies of students’ cost perceptions have been prevalent in recent years; however, little work has examined what may precede the formation of these c…

New article out with @ecallen.bsky.social & @emilyqr.bsky.social where we examined precursors of cost perceptions!

50 days free access here!

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A manuscript I reviewed this week contained at least 3 references to articles that don't exist! I'm not sure I would have spotted them if I hadn't recognized one of the referenced authors and searched for the article. I even texted them to make double sure and indeed. Careful out there, folks.😱 #AI

So excited for members of the Motivation and Academic Choices Lab to present their work at #AERA2025 this year! Please come check out what we have been working on.

Navigating educational research: Key decisions, challenges, and ethical choices in messy data collection and analysis Here's what you can expect: Educational research is "messy," especially when taking new and innovative approaches or adapting to the ever-changing political, social, cultural, and educational landscapes. This session provides opportunities for researchers to share the messiness of research, past challenges, and encourage scholars to instead feel empowered to think about innovative research practices. Following a series of Pecha Kucha style presentations, audience members will participate in a brief workshop challenging them to embrace the messiness and challenges in their current projects. Speakers: - Dr. Carlton Fong - Dr. Daniela Digiacomo - Taylor Cummings, Ph.D. candidate - Destiny Williams-Dobosz, Ph.D. candidate Session chairs: - Dr. Xiao-Yin Chen - Dr. Korinthia D. Nicolai Details: Meeting Room Level, Level 102 Friday, April 25, 2025 11:40am to 1:10pm MDT https://tinyurl.com/26yk9g7h

Attending #AERA2025? 👀 Might I recommend adding this exciting Division C invited session focused on navigating ✨messy✨ educational research?

Friday, April 25th
11:40am - 1:10pm MDT
Colorado Convention Center
Meeting Room Level, Room 102
tinyurl.com/26yk9g7h

Huge congratulations!!!! That’s so cool!! And very well-deserved

I also show this scene in my class!

Are you a teacher looking to motivate your students?

Students tend to be more motivated when they believe their teacher sees their potential—in other words, when they believe their teacher has a growth mindset about student ability.

This is an awesome group of scholars, and these events are how I meant a lot of amazing colleagues and mentors as a student! I couldn’t recommend them more highly.

There are days in life that shake you.

I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at Columbia University
& academic career... 1/🧵

Chaos and confusion as the statistics arm of the Education Department is reduced to a skeletal staff of 3 Acting stats chief booted after only 15 days in the job; fate of the Nation’s Report Card unclear

“The Institute of Education Sciences (IES) is now left with fewer than 20 federal employees, down from more than 175 at the start of the second Trump administration. It’s not clear how IES can operate or even fulfill its statutory obligations set by Congress.” hechingerreport.org/proof-points...

AERA has just learned that all restricted-use NCES data licenses will be cancelled, possibly as early as March 20. We urgently request that all AERA members and others in the research community with restricted-use licenses take these two actions: www.aera.net/Research-Pol...