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sanheeta.bsky.social @sanheeta.bsky.social · Sep 3

Excited to share my new paper in CEP! The part I’m most excited about: we modeled how students’ major intentions shift alongside their motivational beliefs (expectancy, value, cost), offering a snapshot of the beliefs students hold as they navigate decisions about their majors.

MILES Lab @mileslab.bsky.social · Sep 2

📢Newly published CEP piece "Make or break STEM course experiences: Profiles of situated expectancy, value, cost, and major intentions" led by @sanheeta.bsky.social is FREE for 50 days here: authors.elsevier.com/c/1liIQ,8E16...

To look at how students make STEM decisions... @aera-motsig.bsky.social

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MILES Lab @mileslab.bsky.social · 13d

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Dr. Kristy A. Robinson @krisarob.bsky.social · 13d

#tbt to our @mcgilleducation.bsky.social Learning Sciences bonfire and potluck a couple Saturdays ago. Many thanks to Krista Muis for hosting and to everyone who attended for making it such a fun night! I was extremely touched by the way students organized to mark and celebrate my tenure. ❤️

a group photo of Learning Sciences graduate students and faculty

MILES Lab @mileslab.bsky.social · Sep 2

This allowed us to explore how students experience these beliefs in real time and how common/rare different motivational-intentional configurations are. Belonging distinguished the beneficial profile from maladaptive profiles, and profiles in turn predicted long-term persistence. Check it out!

MILES Lab @mileslab.bsky.social · Sep 2

...we examined co-occurring patterns of motivational beliefs + changes in major intentions during introductory STEM courses. Instead of treating motivation and behavioral intentions as separate or sequential, we modeled how these processes work together during key decision-making periods.

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MILES Lab @mileslab.bsky.social · Sep 2

📢Newly published CEP piece "Make or break STEM course experiences: Profiles of situated expectancy, value, cost, and major intentions" led by @sanheeta.bsky.social is FREE for 50 days here: authors.elsevier.com/c/1liIQ,8E16...

To look at how students make STEM decisions... @aera-motsig.bsky.social

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MILES Lab @mileslab.bsky.social · Aug 13

MILES Lab representing at #APA25!

Dr. Kristy A. Robinson @krisarob.bsky.social · Aug 13

I was pretty bad at taking pictures but #APA25 sure was lovely! Missed seeing folks who couldn’t make it but it was a joy to see those who could! Many thanks to Div 15 for making a fantastic program!

Kristy next to one poster and holding another. Poster titles are “One Classroom, Many Views: Factors Behind Student Agreement and Disagreement on Goal Structures” led by Sanheeta Shankar and “Are Perceived Motivational Support or Climate Perceptions More Important for Motivational Beliefs?”

Kristy, Revathy Kumar, and Avi Kaplan inside Meow Wolf exhibit

Kristy with Adar Ben-Eliyahu and the caption “Academic siblings, shoutout to the Linnenbrink-Garcia Lab”

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MILES Lab @mileslab.bsky.social · Jul 29

No *revisions* 😑

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MILES Lab @mileslab.bsky.social · Jul 29

MILES Lab proudly celebrates the publication—immediate acceptance with no reckons—of a brand new marriage! 🥂 Many congrats to Jessica and Matt and thank you so much for including us on your beautiful day!

The bride surrounded by McGill grad student and professor guests on the dance floor

MILES lab PI and students, also Krista Muis and Jared Robinson, sitting together at the wedding dinner

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MILES Lab @mileslab.bsky.social · Jul 18

Live footage of our team getting @aeraedresearch.bsky.social submissions finalized:

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Dr. Kristy A. Robinson @krisarob.bsky.social · Jun 19

Pre-sabbatical summer starting off strong--I'm working my way through the important articles (+ their rich reference lists) in the fantastic special issue of CEP on Moving Educational Psychology Towards Anti-Racist Bodies of Knowledge: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu... HIGHLY recommended!

Contemporary Educational Psychology | Methodological and Theoretical Guidance: Moving Educational Psychology Towards Anti-Racist Bodies of Knowledge | ScienceDirect.com by ElsevierScienceDirect

For this special issue, we aim to solicit 8 – 10 guidance papers to be part of the special issue, each around 4,000-5,000 words. We invite papers across a variety of topics, with the goal of providing...

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Dr. Kristy A. Robinson @krisarob.bsky.social · Jun 13

Heads up that #AERA2026 reviewer invitations are starting to go out! We need YOU--many hands make light work! @aera-motsig.bsky.social @aera-motsig-grad.bsky.social

a batman logo is being projected on a dark background

Alt: a batman logo is being projected on a dark background

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MILES Lab @mileslab.bsky.social · Jun 13

MILES Lab students @sanheeta.bsky.social and Jessica Hunter are at @canadianpsychology.bsky.social and shared their posters this morning--way to go!

PhD candidate Sanheeta Shankar standing next to her poster titled "On the same page (mostly): Patterns of student consensus and ratings of goal climates in STEM"

PhD student Jessica Hunter standing next to her poster titled "Factors shaping STEM students’ feelings of autonomy: Insights from survey responses"

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MILES Lab @mileslab.bsky.social · Jun 12

MILES Lab students had a great time at #SALTISE! Thanks to everyone who asked great questions and provided feedback!

MA student Romane Monnet next to her poster titled "Best Practices fr the Transmission of Knowledge in Science Laboratories"; she also presented a talk entitled "Data sharing parties: Disseminating classroom research findings and maintaining fruitful partnerships with collaborating instructors"

MA student Marianne Dubé next to her poster "More than just a number: Understanding students’ perceptions of specifications grading"

Outgoing MA student (and PhD student at UQAM this fall!) Florence Lessard next to her poster "Factors shaping students’ feelings of competence in undergraduate STEM education: A thematic analysis"

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MILES Lab @mileslab.bsky.social · Jun 11

📢 New publication alert! 📢 #AcademicSky #psychology #EduSky #EdPsych

Dr. Kristy A. Robinson @krisarob.bsky.social · Jun 10

Now published #openaccess in Learning & Individual Differences special issue on the Future of Learning:

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

Cole & I really enjoyed developing our thinking through writing and revising this piece. Many thanks to the editors and reviewers!

In this piece, we...

Not like the weather: classroom climates as group-level subjective phenomena, classroom microclimates as individual differences

A central proposition of motivational climate theory is that psychological climates are not like weather patterns—they're in the minds of groups and i…

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Dr. Kristy A. Robinson @krisarob.bsky.social · Jan 7

Just published, hooray! psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-...

We learned so much from the process of writing this, and from the AERA session in which we first shared results last year. @aera-motsig.bsky.social @aeradivcgrad.bsky.social @psychscience.bsky.social #AcademicSky #CritQuant #edusky

Screenshot of the article including the title, "Motivational Trajectories and Experiences of Minoritized Students in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics: A Critical Quantitative Examination of Existing Data," authors, and part of the abstract

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MILES Lab @mileslab.bsky.social · Jun 6

Throwback to some fun times at #AERA25 www.kristyarobinson.com/blog/miles-l...

MILES Lab & friends at AERA 2025 - Denver, CO, USA

Associate Professor, motivation enthusiast, reader, runner, and mom

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sanheeta.bsky.social @sanheeta.bsky.social · May 3

Celebrating big wins in the @mileslab.bsky.social — federal and provincial funding awards, and graduations! What a great way to end the semester! 😍

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Dr. Kristy A. Robinson @krisarob.bsky.social · May 1

Great news--you can still volunteer to review for #AERA2026! To do so, go to www.aera.net/Membership/M... and click on "2026 AERA Annual Meeting - Call for Reviewers is Now Open." @aera-motsig.bsky.social @aera-motsig-grad.bsky.social @aeraedresearch.bsky.social

Screenshot of where to click to volunteer to review, with an arrow pointing to the link

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MILES Lab @mileslab.bsky.social · May 1

MILES Lab and friends at #AERA2025 ❤️ We loved seeing you all!

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MILES Lab @mileslab.bsky.social · May 1

#tbt to this poster presentation at #AERA2025 led by Jessica Hunter and assisted by this awesome team, including @sanheeta.bsky.social @samanthamackie.bsky.social Great job, team! And thanks to those who stopped by to discuss!

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MILES Lab @mileslab.bsky.social · Apr 23

Happening now #AERA2025: come see Cole present his paper « Helpful, Harmful, or Somewhere Between? Exploring Features of Peer Motivational Climate Among University Mathematics Students »

Room 404!

Dynamics of Student Engagement and Peer Influence in Collaborative Settings

Wednesday 10:50 am to 12:20pm

Room 404

List of papers being presented in the session, including Cole’s paper « Helpful, Harmful, or Somewhere in Between: Exploring Features of Peer Motivational Climate Among University Mathematics Students »

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MILES Lab @mileslab.bsky.social · Apr 18

Congrats to PhD students Jessica Hunter and @sanheeta.bsky.social for winning second place in our department's International Graduate Student poster competition! 🎉

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MILES Lab @mileslab.bsky.social · Jan 20

When you just want to write about your favorite theory without accidentally wading into a controversy. As another plot twist: whether or not to include "situated" in the title. :)

#MotivationScholarMemes #MotivationMonday

sweating choice meme with the first button labeled "Expectancy-Value Theory" and the second button labeled "Expectancy-Value-Cost Theory"

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MILES Lab @mileslab.bsky.social · Jan 13

New year, new opportunities to motivate & be motivated! Careful use of praise and rewards can be helpful when otherwise lacking good reasons for engaging, but they're a risky move for the already motivated folks.
#MotivationMonday #MotivationScholarMemes #EduSky #AcademicSky @aera-motsig.bsky.social

"one does not simply meme" (from Lord of the Rings) with the text "One does not simply use extrinsic motivators"

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MILES Lab @mileslab.bsky.social · Jan 13

New year, new opportunities to motivate & be motivated! Careful use of praise and rewards can be helpful when otherwise lacking good reasons for engaging, but they're a risky move for the already motivated folks.
#MotivationMonday #MotivationScholarMemes #EduSky #AcademicSky @aera-motsig.bsky.social

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