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Chris Rozek @chrisrozek.bsky.social · 14d

🚨 @drkellyallen.bsky.social's new paper features interviews with 10 belonging scholars on the Integrative Framework of Belonging, offering novel insights that clarify, deepen, and reshape the model! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The revised figure showing the Integrative Framework of Belonging

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Chris Rozek @chrisrozek.bsky.social · Aug 13

Surprised that psychologists are still having the same arguments about whether what happens inside people’s heads matters for choices & success? I am! But fortunately @drmuenks.bsky.social and @carltonfong.bsky.social are here to reiterate the overwhelmingly convincing case that motivation matters!

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Carlton J. Fong @carltonfong.bsky.social · Aug 13

Co-authored with @drmuenks.bsky.social, our @insidehighered.com piece "Beyond Behaviorism: Why Motivation Matters" is out!

We reject behaviorist principles and argue that understanding the science behind motivation is crucial for supporting student learning.

www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

Beyond Behaviorism: Why Student Motivation Matters (opinion)

Understanding the science behind motivation is crucial for supporting student learning, Katie Muenks and Carlton Fong write.

www.insidehighered.com

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Chris Rozek @chrisrozek.bsky.social · Jul 18

Excellent thread summarizing this new paper in our special issue on School Belonging in Ed Psych Review doi.org/10.1007/s106...

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Chris Rozek @chrisrozek.bsky.social · Jul 16

🛑🛑🛑 and read this free open access paper introducing the Brilliance-Belonging Model, which shows how cultural beliefs about ability lead to inequitable outcomes in education through perceptions of belonging and other downstream psychological mechanisms!

Carlton J. Fong @carltonfong.bsky.social · Jul 15

Our special issue keeps growing with @cabauer.bsky.social et al’s paper on the Brilliance-Belonging Model, illuminating how beliefs about ability create inequities through their impact on students' belonging

@andreicimpian.bsky.social @aashnap.bsky.social

Open-access here:
doi.org/10.1007/s106...

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Chris Rozek @chrisrozek.bsky.social · Jun 23

As @maeganarney.bsky.social advisor, I’m biased, but I completely agree and encourage a vote for Maegan Arney for MotSIG junior co-chair!

Cristina Zepeda @czpuede.bsky.social · Jun 23

My former labmate @maeganarney.bsky.social is running for junior co-chair of MotSIG 🤩 Her work is brilliant, she is committed to PD, has lots of leadership exp & is 1 of the kindest humans I know!

If u are a grad student & have active MotSIG membership make sure u vote by 7/9: bit.ly/MotSIGvote25

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Katie Kroeper @katiekroe.bsky.social · Jun 13

Although this isn’t exactly new news, I wanted to share more about a paper that came out while I was on maternity leave: “Who Gets to Belong in College? An Empirical Review of How Institutions Can Assess and Expand Opportunities for Belonging on Campus,” published in Educational Psychology Review. 🧵

Article titled “Who Gets to Belong in College? An Empirical Review of How Institutions Can Assess and Expand Opportunities for Belonging on Campus,” published in Educational Psychology Review (2025).

Abstract: Over a dozen rigorous randomized-controlled trials show that recognizing worries about belonging in a new school as normal and as improving with time can help students stay engaged, build relationships, and succeed. Such “social-belonging” interventions can help students take advantage of opportunities available to them to develop their belonging in college—yet what is the institutional role? Drawing on past literature, and reporting novel data from the College Transition Collaborative’s massive trial of the social-belonging intervention (N = 15,143 control-condition students in 374 “local-identity” groups across 22 representative colleges and universities; Walton et al., 2023), we explore who gets to belong in college and what institutional leaders can do to expand these opportunities. First, we find that opportunities for belonging (i.e., “belonging affordances”) vary widely, both across institutions and systematically across groups. Notably, Black, Asian, and first-generation college student groups are each less likely than other groups to have minimally adequate opportunities for belonging. Second, all institutions are serving some student groups well, but all can improve: none provides adequate belonging affordances for all groups. Third, four classes of institutional factors predict belonging affordances at the identity-group level: (1) greater in-group representation, (2) more inclusive cultures, (3) greater opportunities for strong relationships, and (4) greater opportunities for productive learning. We conclude by discussing how institutions can learn for whom they are creating opportunities for belonging and for whom they are not, and how institutions can expand opportunities for belonging for groups that are not yet well served.

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Chris Rozek @chrisrozek.bsky.social · Jun 12

Congratulations— SO happy for you!!!

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Alex Browman @alexbrowman.bsky.social · Apr 24

I argue that historically, educational and social psychology have largely equated belonging with social connectedness. Social connectedness is, of course, essential for belonging.

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Chris Rozek @chrisrozek.bsky.social · May 14

🚨 One issue in school belonging research is we don't have a good definition for it yet! It is MUCH MORE than just positive relationships. This MUST READ paper puts forth a much needed framework for defining school belonging with important implications for research & practice bsky.app/profile/alex...

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Chris Rozek @chrisrozek.bsky.social · May 6

‼️ If you care about how institutions can support STUDENT BELONGING, make sure to read: link.springer.com/article/10.1...! They surveyed 15k+ students to uncover 4 important factors that promote belonging and found variation in how different groups of students felt belonging across context ‼️

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Katie Kroeper @katiekroe.bsky.social · May 1

Excited to be featured by the Chronicle of Evidence-Based Mentoring chatting about a recent paper with Katherine Emerson, Maithreyi Gopalan, and Greg Walton. We looked at actionable ways institutions can create belonging opportunities for students.

Profiles in Mentoring: Katie Kroeper on Fostering Belonging through Institutional Change – The Chronicle of Evidence-Based Mentoring

www.evidencebasedmentoring.org

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Dr. Allison Master @allisonmaster.bsky.social · May 2

It’s a tough time for STEM education research right now, but we are still excited to share our new PNAS paper, “Divergence in children’s gender stereotypes and motivation across STEM fields”! We have big surveys (2,765 students in Grades 1-12), 2 pre-registered studies, and open data. (1/13)

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Chris Rozek @chrisrozek.bsky.social · Apr 24

Interesting in SCHOOL BELONGING?? We hope you can join us tonight at AERA for a mega-session on cutting edge new belonging perspectives and research!

Carlton J. Fong @carltonfong.bsky.social · Apr 24

Join us for our awesome session on School Belonging on Thursday featuring insights and suggestions from an amazing group of scholars, youth, and educators!

Session Details:
tinyurl.com/2axq6juh

#AERA2025 #AERABelonging @aera-motsig.bsky.social @aeradivcgrad.bsky.social @chrisrozek.bsky.social

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Chris Rozek @chrisrozek.bsky.social · Mar 25

🚨 Important new paper from the Ed Psych Review special issue on belonging. This paper considers how racial/ethnic identity relates to school belonging and how that might depend on whether asset-based pedagogy is being used in classrooms

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Chris Rozek @chrisrozek.bsky.social · Jan 21

Love this post! ❤️

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Chris Rozek @chrisrozek.bsky.social · Jan 21

WOW!!! This is such great news! I'm more hit or miss for seeing things on academic social media now, so I'm sorry I missed this initially, but I'm so excited to come on and see this news. Very happy to see your excellent work acknowledged in this way!

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Chris Rozek @chrisrozek.bsky.social · Dec 4

I don't work much with that age group, but both major K-12 belonging meta-analyses exclude elementary school/primary school students (Allen et al., 2018; Korpershoek et al., 2020). This paper is one option (but called engagement: doi.org/10.1037/a002...) or (www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....)

APA PsycNet

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Chris Rozek @chrisrozek.bsky.social · Dec 4

I think you would have to adapt it for children like we do with math anxiety, likely defining what you mean by belonging or comfort or acceptance, making sure they understood, & then likely use pictures to have them point to the one that matches their feelings bpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com/sites.wustl....

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Chris Rozek @chrisrozek.bsky.social · Dec 3

Excited for this paper on college belonging and academic outcomes to be out now! Free view only link (rdcu.be/d2fv2). ResearchGate (www.researchgate.net/publication/...)

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Markus Brauer @markusbrauer.bsky.social · Nov 20

New publication alert! 🚨 My former graduate student (Dr. Naomi Isenberg) and I have a new paper in Scientific Reports about how Americans underestimate diversity support and that correcting this boosts inclusion.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Diversity and inclusion have greater support than most Americans think - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Diversity and inclusion have greater support than most Americans think

www.nature.com

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Chris Rozek @chrisrozek.bsky.social · Nov 19

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Carlton J. Fong @carltonfong.bsky.social · Nov 19

The first article is a phenomenal review by Rebecca Covarrubias that discusses how belonging is not only psychological but also political, highlighting paradoxes of school belonging, “reimaging who can, wants, and gets to belong.” 🔥

OPEN ACCESS paper here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The title and abstract for the article "On Being Accepted: Interrogating How University Cultural Scripts Shape Personal and Political Facets of Belonging"

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Chris Rozek @chrisrozek.bsky.social · Nov 19

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Carlton J. Fong @carltonfong.bsky.social · Nov 19

Incredibly excited about a special issue @chrisrozek.bsky.social and I are editing on SCHOOL BELONGING with Ed Psych Review! 🎉

The first paper is out! Once published, all papers can be found here: link.springer.com/collections/...

I’ll update this thread when each article gets posted ⬇️

Colorful design with the words "You belong."

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Chris Rozek @chrisrozek.bsky.social · Nov 15

For college students (psycnet.apa.org/record/2023-...). For adolescents (and generally the most popular measure), PSSM (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1.... A short, 4-item scale for adolescents (psycnet.apa.org/record/2018-...). A discussion of measures (www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...).

APA PsycNet

psycnet.apa.org

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Chris Rozek @chrisrozek.bsky.social · Sep 27

Hi! I'm a social psychologist in a Department of Education, and I'm interested in student belonging, emotions, motivation, and interventions. I mostly work with adolescents. See below for an example of my belonging theory work done with awesome collaborators :) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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