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Allison Zengilowski
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Teaching Assistant Prof of Learning Sciences at Lehigh University. Mostly learning about learning.

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super excited to be part of this, come join!
aera-motsig-grad.bsky.social AERA Motivation in Education SIG Graduate Students @aera-motsig-grad.bsky.social · Oct 21
This month’s Motivation Monday is a special collaboration with the @aeratepsig.bsky.social on teaching educational psychology. Join us in conversation with @allisonmaster.bsky.social, Allison Zengilowski, @yekim.bsky.social, and @shipko.bsky.social.
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October 21, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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How can we use graduate education in educational psychology to respond to calls for integrating race, culture, and systemic influences into research?

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@allisonzengilowski.bsky.social and I bright and early tomorrow to talk about it
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August 8, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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look at @schu.etze.co's thread for content, i'll share the story! @veronicayan.bsky.social encouraged me to apply for a fellowship through ASSISTments to think about large scale + quant approaches to investigating aspects of confusion. she helped so much with brainstorming and dealing w/ constraints
schu.etze.co Brendan Schuetze @schu.etze.co · Jul 17
New paper with Allison Zengilowski, Abubakir Siedahmed, @veronicayan.bsky.social, and Neil Heffernan at Learning at Scale published today:

"Encouraging Metacognitive Reflection through Prompts in a Computer-Based Learning Platform: Failure to Find a Benefit in a Large-Scale Randomized Trial"
July 17, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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Last but not least here is our lineup for #AERA2025 Div C Sec 2B to be held on Sun (4/27)! @czpuede.bsky.social & I are so grateful to co-chair this year! Can’t wait to see the submissions come to life ☺️ @aera-motsig.bsky.social @aeradivcgrad.bsky.social #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky
AERA 2025 Division C Section 2b: Learning & motivation in social & cultural contexts program for Sunday, April 27. full program at tinyurl.com/27ftmpll Starts at 8am MDT in the virtual poster hall: Learning and motivation in social and cultural contexts virtual poster session. 8:00-9:30am MDT, Poster session in Colorado Convention Center, Exhibit Hall Level, Exhibit Hall F titled "Student and Parent Perspectives on Motivation and Performance." Six papers included: (1) The Relationship between Educational Expectations and Chinese Rural Children’s Academic Avoidance, Test Anxiety, and Burnout; (2) Academic Pressure or Emotional Detachment? The Complex Effect of Compulsory Boarding Due to the School Merger Policy; (3) Parental Achievement goals, Personal Academic Achievement goals, Personal Social Achievement goals, and Achievement Emotions; (4) Grit, Positive Youth Development, and School Engagement Among Filipino Secondary School Students; (5) Struggle for Beauty or Grades？The Impact of Appearance Anxiety on Adolescent Academic Performance; (6) What is the Purpose of School? Predictors and Consequences of School Relevance. 1:30-3pm MDT, roundtable session in Colorado Convention Center, Ballroom Level, Four Seasons Ballroom 1 titled "Synthesizing Multiple Critical Perspectives on Teaching." Five papers included, titled: (1) The Mediating Effect of Funds of Knowledge on the Relationship between Student-Teacher Racial Matching and Discourse; (2) “Being Unapologetically Myself”: Black Women Teachers’ Identity Negotiation Around Their Psychological Needs Within White Spaces; (3) Both/And: The Joint Influence of Educators’ Diversity Ideologies and Perceptions of Educational Infrastructure on Equity-Focused Practice Implementation; (4) “Test Prep Hangover”: Teachers Describe How Test Prep Practices Endure After the ELA State Exam; (5) Findings From a Scoping Review of Social-Emotional Learning, Culturally Responsive Teaching, and Reading.
April 11, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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April 26, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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Today @czpuede.bsky.social & I are featuring the events set for #AERA2025 Div C Sec 2B to be held on Fri (4/25)! Just look at those titles 😍 @aera-motsig.bsky.social @aeradivcgrad.bsky.social #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky Full program: tinyurl.com/27ftmpll
AERA 2025 Division C Section 2b: Learning & motivation in social & cultural contexts program for Friday, April 25 (part 1 of 2). 8:00-9:30am MDT, Workshop in Colorado Convention Center, Terrace Level, Bluebird Ballroom Room 3B titled "Turning Insights Into Impact: Bridging the Gap Between Research and Policy in Education." 9:50-11:20am MDT, Symposium in Colorado Convention Center, Terrace Level, Bluebird Ballroom Room 2B titled "The What and How of Parents’ Socialization: Exploring the Bridging Role of Children’s Psychological Processes." Five papers are included, titled: (1) A Parent-Led Spatial Activities Intervention, (2) Parents’ Positive Emotional Affect is Infectious in Dyadic Math Interaction, (3) From Parents to Children: Distinct Relationships of Self-Reported and Child-Perceived Parental Mindsets With Children’s Mindsets, (4) Patterns of Socializers’ Science Support: Retrospective Relations to Motivational Beliefs among Ethno-Racially Minoritized College Students, (5) The relative importance of family influences on STEM college students’ expectancy-value beliefs and career decisions. 11:40am-1:10pm MDT, Paper session co-sponsored with the motivation in education special interest group in Colorado Convention Center, Meeting Room Level, Room 203. Five papers are included, titled: (1) Belonging as a Motivational Principle in Black Students' and Teachers’ School and Science Classroom Experiences; (2) Examining the Relations Between Perceived Classroom Structures, Expectancy-Value Beliefs, and Subsequent Math Performance Among Latino/a Adolescents; (3) How Goal Structures and Academic Expectations Co-Construct One Another: A Multiple Case Study; (4) Math Motivation During Kindergarten and its Association with Classroom Motivational Climate: A Mixed-Methods Inquiry; (5) Race-Reimaged Autonomy Support: Motivational Benefits of Instruction That Integrates Self-Determination Theory and Culturally Relevant Education. AERA 2025 Division C Section 2b: Learning & motivation in social & cultural contexts program for Friday, April 25 (part 2 of 2). Starts at 8am MDT in the virtual poster hall: Learning and motivation in social and cultural contexts virtual poster session. 1:30-3pm MDT, roundtable session in the Colorado Convention Center, Ballroom Level, Four Seasons Ballroom 4 titled "Leveraging Peer Relationships and Classroom Dynamics." Five papers are included, titled: (1) EFL students’ collaborative learning: The role of self-regulated learning, motivation, and teacher’s support; (2) Fixed-Mindset Peers Negatively Predict Long-Run Educational Progress; (3) Leveraging Social Relationships and Help-Seeking Among Latina/o/x Community College Students: Exploring Gender Differences; (4) Fostering Friendships through Collaborative Reasoning: A Dynamic Social Network Analysis of Adolescent Peer Relationships; (5) Classmates to Friends: Bonding Activities and College Students' Academics, Well-Being, Experience, and Interpersonal Closeness. 3:20-4:50pm MDT, poster session in the Colorado Convention Center, Exhibit Hall Level, Exhibit Hall F titled "Student Identity and Autonomy." Includes six posters titled: (1) Given the Power to Lead, Students Shift Their Classroom from Authoritarian to Adhocratic Governance; (2) “You’re a scientist too?”: Affirming Children’s Voice in Early Childhood Education Classrooms; (3) Longitudinal Influence of Identity Safety on School Attitudes; (4) Summer Bridge Program Influence on a Future Engineer Role Identity: A Case Study; (5) Fostering Latinx Youths’ Ethnic-Racial Identity Through Play: A Conjecture Map; (6) Exploring Undergraduate Students’ Critical Thinking and Optimism through Project-Based Climate Change Education.
April 9, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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So excited for these sessions today!
czpuede.bsky.social Cristina Zepeda @czpuede.bsky.social · Apr 8
Ready for round 2? Here are the presentations for #AERA2025 Div C Sec 2B to be held on Thurs (4/24)! @allisonzengilowski.bsky.social & I loved reading these submissions 🤓 More coming tomorrow! @aera-motsig.bsky.social @aeradivcgrad.bsky.social #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky 🌐TINYURL.COM/27FTMPLL
List of Thursday, April, 24th presentations for AERA Division C, Section 2b: Learning and motivation in social and cultural contexts. URL given to see all talks, but here is a snapshot: Poster Session on Focusing on Teachers and Student-Teacher Interactions. Talk titles include (1) Investigating Need Supportive Teaching in Middle School Math and Science Using a Person-Centered Approach (2) Exploring the Dynamic Interplay Between Expectations, Relationships, and Instruction: A Case Study (3) Who Inspires Whom? Reciprocal Relationships Between Teachers’ Enthusiasm and Students’ Interest and Enjoyment (4) Strengthening the Pipeline: Faculty Training and Its Impact on Black and Latinx Community College Students in STEM (5) Student and teacher intellectual humility: The effects of subject, course type, and student background (6) Student Experiences of Confusion and Implications for Instructor Responses (7) Epistemic beliefs and interpersonal communicative competences in preservice teachers’ dialogic argumentation Symposium called "Teaching toward equity: The teaching-learning research stance and its practices". Talks include (1) Situating Critical Explorations in the Classroom toward Culturally Responsive Pedagogy (2) How and Why to Assess Interpretive Authority Balances in Exploratory and Problem-Solving Learning Experiences (3) The Cultivation of Teacher Presence Through the Process of Descriptive Review EdTalk Symposium on "How to Create Environments of Belonging for Students: New Perspectives on School Belonging Research" with several talk titles listed
April 24, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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April 23, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Going to #AERA25 & interested in STEM ed research or #NSF funding? Check out the ECR Hub's booklet on NSF EDU Core Research at #AERA2025 including #NSFSTEM ECR sessions, networking & tips for AERA 🤩 ecrhub.org/resource/aer...

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April 14, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Last but not least here is our lineup for #AERA2025 Div C Sec 2B to be held on Sun (4/27)! @czpuede.bsky.social & I are so grateful to co-chair this year! Can’t wait to see the submissions come to life ☺️ @aera-motsig.bsky.social @aeradivcgrad.bsky.social #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky
AERA 2025 Division C Section 2b: Learning & motivation in social & cultural contexts program for Sunday, April 27. full program at tinyurl.com/27ftmpll Starts at 8am MDT in the virtual poster hall: Learning and motivation in social and cultural contexts virtual poster session. 8:00-9:30am MDT, Poster session in Colorado Convention Center, Exhibit Hall Level, Exhibit Hall F titled "Student and Parent Perspectives on Motivation and Performance." Six papers included: (1) The Relationship between Educational Expectations and Chinese Rural Children’s Academic Avoidance, Test Anxiety, and Burnout; (2) Academic Pressure or Emotional Detachment? The Complex Effect of Compulsory Boarding Due to the School Merger Policy; (3) Parental Achievement goals, Personal Academic Achievement goals, Personal Social Achievement goals, and Achievement Emotions; (4) Grit, Positive Youth Development, and School Engagement Among Filipino Secondary School Students; (5) Struggle for Beauty or Grades？The Impact of Appearance Anxiety on Adolescent Academic Performance; (6) What is the Purpose of School? Predictors and Consequences of School Relevance. 1:30-3pm MDT, roundtable session in Colorado Convention Center, Ballroom Level, Four Seasons Ballroom 1 titled "Synthesizing Multiple Critical Perspectives on Teaching." Five papers included, titled: (1) The Mediating Effect of Funds of Knowledge on the Relationship between Student-Teacher Racial Matching and Discourse; (2) “Being Unapologetically Myself”: Black Women Teachers’ Identity Negotiation Around Their Psychological Needs Within White Spaces; (3) Both/And: The Joint Influence of Educators’ Diversity Ideologies and Perceptions of Educational Infrastructure on Equity-Focused Practice Implementation; (4) “Test Prep Hangover”: Teachers Describe How Test Prep Practices Endure After the ELA State Exam; (5) Findings From a Scoping Review of Social-Emotional Learning, Culturally Responsive Teaching, and Reading.
April 11, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Reposted by Allison Zengilowski
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For our Sat (4/26) round up, @allisonzengilowski.bsky.social & I are thrilled to share the events set for #AERA2025 Div C Sec 2B! Y’all were on 🔥 with these submissions. One more round coming tomorrow! @aera-motsig.bsky.social @aeradivcgrad.bsky.social #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky
Two co-sponsored Poster Sessions with Motivation in Education SIG. One called Learning and Motivation in STEM. and another called Exploring Contextual, Climate, and Social Supports for Motivational Processes. Titles of talks listed, but contained too many words to list in system. Another poster session is also being help in the virtual poster hall Paper Session called Culturally Responsive Practices and Mentorship in STEM Education. Talk titles: Cultivating an Engineering Identity Among Latinx Youth and Addressing Gender Disparities Through Culturally Responsive Efforts, Black and Latine Students’ Experiences of Instructional Belonging Opportunity Structures in STEM: Critical Qualitative Analysis, Faculty Mentors’ Influence on Latinx STEM Undergraduates’ STEM Identity Development, “Mapping Myself” Instrument: Building Bridges and Connections in/to Science, Community and Sustainability" Paper Session called Empowering Students Through Innovative Pedagogies in Environmental and Climate Change Education. Talk titles: Care Praxis–Driven Engineering Design: A Pathway to Advance Justice in Middle School STEM, Exploring A Design Thinking Teamwork Pedagogy for Environmental Science Education, Educating for Action: Undergraduates Learning About Climate Change in an Agentic Context, Addressing the Social Debates of Climate Change Education Through Building Common Ground" Roundtable Session co-sponsored with motivation in education sig called Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Learning and Motivation. Talk titles: Students’ Well-being in the East and West: A Self-determination Theory Perspective, Motivation and Reading Achievement of Language Minority Students: Evidence from PISA 2018, Parental Support Amplifies Growth Mindset Predictions on Student Achievement and Persistence: Evidence across cultures, Teachers' Emotional Supports Facilitate Early Adolescents' Creativity Self-efficacy and Performance Most: An Ecological Comparison between China and Finland"
April 10, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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Today @czpuede.bsky.social & I are featuring the events set for #AERA2025 Div C Sec 2B to be held on Fri (4/25)! Just look at those titles 😍 @aera-motsig.bsky.social @aeradivcgrad.bsky.social #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky Full program: tinyurl.com/27ftmpll
AERA 2025 Division C Section 2b: Learning & motivation in social & cultural contexts program for Friday, April 25 (part 1 of 2). 8:00-9:30am MDT, Workshop in Colorado Convention Center, Terrace Level, Bluebird Ballroom Room 3B titled "Turning Insights Into Impact: Bridging the Gap Between Research and Policy in Education." 9:50-11:20am MDT, Symposium in Colorado Convention Center, Terrace Level, Bluebird Ballroom Room 2B titled "The What and How of Parents’ Socialization: Exploring the Bridging Role of Children’s Psychological Processes." Five papers are included, titled: (1) A Parent-Led Spatial Activities Intervention, (2) Parents’ Positive Emotional Affect is Infectious in Dyadic Math Interaction, (3) From Parents to Children: Distinct Relationships of Self-Reported and Child-Perceived Parental Mindsets With Children’s Mindsets, (4) Patterns of Socializers’ Science Support: Retrospective Relations to Motivational Beliefs among Ethno-Racially Minoritized College Students, (5) The relative importance of family influences on STEM college students’ expectancy-value beliefs and career decisions. 11:40am-1:10pm MDT, Paper session co-sponsored with the motivation in education special interest group in Colorado Convention Center, Meeting Room Level, Room 203. Five papers are included, titled: (1) Belonging as a Motivational Principle in Black Students' and Teachers’ School and Science Classroom Experiences; (2) Examining the Relations Between Perceived Classroom Structures, Expectancy-Value Beliefs, and Subsequent Math Performance Among Latino/a Adolescents; (3) How Goal Structures and Academic Expectations Co-Construct One Another: A Multiple Case Study; (4) Math Motivation During Kindergarten and its Association with Classroom Motivational Climate: A Mixed-Methods Inquiry; (5) Race-Reimaged Autonomy Support: Motivational Benefits of Instruction That Integrates Self-Determination Theory and Culturally Relevant Education. AERA 2025 Division C Section 2b: Learning & motivation in social & cultural contexts program for Friday, April 25 (part 2 of 2). Starts at 8am MDT in the virtual poster hall: Learning and motivation in social and cultural contexts virtual poster session. 1:30-3pm MDT, roundtable session in the Colorado Convention Center, Ballroom Level, Four Seasons Ballroom 4 titled "Leveraging Peer Relationships and Classroom Dynamics." Five papers are included, titled: (1) EFL students’ collaborative learning: The role of self-regulated learning, motivation, and teacher’s support; (2) Fixed-Mindset Peers Negatively Predict Long-Run Educational Progress; (3) Leveraging Social Relationships and Help-Seeking Among Latina/o/x Community College Students: Exploring Gender Differences; (4) Fostering Friendships through Collaborative Reasoning: A Dynamic Social Network Analysis of Adolescent Peer Relationships; (5) Classmates to Friends: Bonding Activities and College Students' Academics, Well-Being, Experience, and Interpersonal Closeness. 3:20-4:50pm MDT, poster session in the Colorado Convention Center, Exhibit Hall Level, Exhibit Hall F titled "Student Identity and Autonomy." Includes six posters titled: (1) Given the Power to Lead, Students Shift Their Classroom from Authoritarian to Adhocratic Governance; (2) “You’re a scientist too?”: Affirming Children’s Voice in Early Childhood Education Classrooms; (3) Longitudinal Influence of Identity Safety on School Attitudes; (4) Summer Bridge Program Influence on a Future Engineer Role Identity: A Case Study; (5) Fostering Latinx Youths’ Ethnic-Racial Identity Through Play: A Conjecture Map; (6) Exploring Undergraduate Students’ Critical Thinking and Optimism through Project-Based Climate Change Education.
April 9, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Reposted by Allison Zengilowski
czpuede.bsky.social
Ready for round 2? Here are the presentations for #AERA2025 Div C Sec 2B to be held on Thurs (4/24)! @allisonzengilowski.bsky.social & I loved reading these submissions 🤓 More coming tomorrow! @aera-motsig.bsky.social @aeradivcgrad.bsky.social #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky 🌐TINYURL.COM/27FTMPLL
List of Thursday, April, 24th presentations for AERA Division C, Section 2b: Learning and motivation in social and cultural contexts. URL given to see all talks, but here is a snapshot: Poster Session on Focusing on Teachers and Student-Teacher Interactions. Talk titles include (1) Investigating Need Supportive Teaching in Middle School Math and Science Using a Person-Centered Approach (2) Exploring the Dynamic Interplay Between Expectations, Relationships, and Instruction: A Case Study (3) Who Inspires Whom? Reciprocal Relationships Between Teachers’ Enthusiasm and Students’ Interest and Enjoyment (4) Strengthening the Pipeline: Faculty Training and Its Impact on Black and Latinx Community College Students in STEM (5) Student and teacher intellectual humility: The effects of subject, course type, and student background (6) Student Experiences of Confusion and Implications for Instructor Responses (7) Epistemic beliefs and interpersonal communicative competences in preservice teachers’ dialogic argumentation Symposium called "Teaching toward equity: The teaching-learning research stance and its practices". Talks include (1) Situating Critical Explorations in the Classroom toward Culturally Responsive Pedagogy (2) How and Why to Assess Interpretive Authority Balances in Exploratory and Problem-Solving Learning Experiences (3) The Cultivation of Teacher Presence Through the Process of Descriptive Review EdTalk Symposium on "How to Create Environments of Belonging for Students: New Perspectives on School Belonging Research" with several talk titles listed
April 8, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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@czpuede.bsky.social and I are excited to share the program for #AERA2025 Div C Sec 2B: Motivation & Learning in Social & Cultural Contexts! Today we're highlighting Wed (4/23) presentations ✨ More to come! @aera-motsig.bsky.social @aeradivcgrad.bsky.social #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky
AERA 2025 Division C Section 2b: Learning & motivation in social & cultural contexts program for Wednesday, April 23. Starts at 8am MDT in the virtual poster hall: Learning and motivation in social and cultural contexts virtual poster session. Papers include 1. Instructor high-arousal, positive affect, relatedness need satisfaction, and east asian college student engagement 2. HLM: Collective efficacy, growth mindset, and classroom ELA outcomes controlling for SES and school size 3. Changing patterns of academic social comparison emotions among high school students in South Korea: Latent profile analysis 10:50am-12pm MDT: paper session in Colorado convention center meeting room level, room 404. Session titled "dynamics of student engagement and peer influence in collaborative settings. Papers include: 1. The Hidden Ingredients of Engagement: Collective Efficacy and Respectful Demeanors 2. Analyzing Changes in Engagement Patterns during Collaborative Discussions among Chinese Adolescents: An Epistemic Network Analysis 3. The Secret Language of Peers: How Peer Behaviors Signal Mindset and Influence Classroom Experiences 4. Helpful, Harmful, or Somewhere In-Between? Exploring Features of Peer Motivational Climate amongst University Mathematics Students"
April 7, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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@aera-motsig.bsky.social #MotSIG #AERA2025 If you're a grad student or ECR eager to connect with other researchers, sign up for the AERA 2025 Motivation SIG Mentor-Mentee Program by April 4th! forms.gle/hHE4h8CzErFT...
March 20, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Woke up with the Monday blues but remembering tonight’s panel on navigating theory development with the wonderful Allison Zengilowski, @carltonfong.bsky.social, and @jeffgreene.bsky.social has me feeling excited again. Hope to see you there!
February 24, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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couldn't ask for a better panel at this time. incredibly grateful for these scholars' willingness to share their experiences and advice today, please join us!
aera-motsig.bsky.social Mot SIG @aera-motsig.bsky.social · Jan 22
📢Attention! 📢

Join us for a panel on multicultural, critical, & decolonial research Wednesday 2/5/25. 🌍🤝 Ask questions, gain insights from experts, and enhance your research methods. See you then! #DecolonizeResearch #academicchatter #educationalresearch #criticalresearch
February 5, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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My first post on the other place was about a new publication, so fitting to do the same here! With a dream collaborative team, my favorite part was showing how qual methods can change our understandings. Open access in Contemporary Educational Psychology!

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“Only some can succeed here”: A mixed methods study of how faculty unproductive mindsets relate to gender, racial, and first-gen representation in higher education
Gender, racial/ethnic, and socioeconomic disparities pervade academia. Though there are a wealth of established reasons for these gaps, recent researc…
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December 2, 2024 at 10:25 PM