Delighted to share @drkellyallen.bsky.social's paper reformulating the Integrative Framework of Belonging through interviews of other esteemed belonging researchers! This open-access paper does a deep dive on the theory––a must read for anyone using the framework! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🚨 @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...

🔔 New article alert 🔔 Honored to have been invited to write a commentary for an excellent special issue on advancing feedback research in Contemporary Educational Psychology: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu... 👀 You can check out my commentary here: doi.org/10.1016/j.ce... DM for full-text! 😇

🔔 New article alert 🔔 Honored to have been invited to write a commentary for an excellent special issue on advancing feedback research in Contemporary Educational Psychology: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu... 👀 You can check out my commentary here: doi.org/10.1016/j.ce... DM for full-text! 😇

🗣️ When is using #GenAI a helpful shortcut, and when is using it really just cutting yourself short? Find out in this (short!) article in Psychology Today by yours truly. #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky #Expertise

That feeling when AERA introduces something new

Assigned Fong & Irizarry's "Too quant to crit" paper in my doctoral course on epistemologies of research and I have to say that citing MC Hammer in service of advancing quantcrit in educational psychology is exquisite work. This millennial is in awe.

Thanks for checking out my work! 🙏 To quote my friend, Abe Flanigan: “I bet Carlton has a meta for that topic.”

✨ New Publication Alert ✨ I’m very open about being a first-generation college graduate and I get asked a lot of my path to and through my Ph.D. This Autoethnography highlights pivotal experiences that led me from chemistry undergraduate to educational psychologist. psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/...

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...

Opinion | Beyond Behaviorism: Why Motivation Matters Understanding the science behind motivation is crucial for supporting student learning, Katie Muenks and Carlton Fong write. bit.ly/4fUtICl #EDUSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky

🧠 Want to supercharge your students' learning? Then read this amazing article by @drmuenks.bsky.social and @carltonfong.bsky.social! Promoting positive motivationS (there are more than one!) is the key! 👀 #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

After a tough exam, the best next step isn’t cramming—it’s reflecting. 🔄 Our study shows: Honest review of what worked + clear plans for change = better results next time. Reflection is the bridge from struggle to success. 📈 #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky

🚨 Thrilled to share that the first part of my dissertation, co-authored w/ @carltonfong.bsky.social, is now published in Journal of College Student Retention! We examined what predicts the college GPA for community college athletes. doi.org/10.1177/1521... @txst.edu @aera-motsig.bsky.social

In an Inside Higher Ed piece, AERA members ‪@drmuenks.bsky.social‬ and @carltonfong.bsky.social‬ write that understanding the science behind motivation is crucial for supporting student learning. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

Motivation matters! “By understanding student motivation, these teaching strategies and approaches can be fine-tuned and adapted to differently motivated students to maximize student learning. That is exactly what motivation scientists in education have been investigating for decades.”

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!

Carlton & I wrote a response to a June article published in Inside Higher Ed that claimed "motivation" "is a word that means nothing" in the classroom and that it is not something that instructors should focus on. We strongly disagree and argue that it is actually *very* important!

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...

Great point - many people think we have one thing called "motivation" but in fact we have many "motivationS." Knowing what types of motivation we have, and how to control them, is really important. Thanks!

Someone asked me for the take-home message from this meta-analysis. I think one is that we need to teach people to monitor and control their motivation, so they can persist through cognitively demanding tasks. Motivation is controllable. What do you think @carltonfong.bsky.social ?

"Well-regulated learners...are also regulating their motivation to feel efficacious, see value in the task, and expend effort, which partly result in completing the task and performing well in school." #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky doi.org/10.1037/edu0...

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!

Congrats to @emilyqr.bsky.social for receiving the #APA2025 Division 15 Snow Award! 🎉 Kudos to @drteyar.bsky.social for her wonderful Snow award address! 👏🏼 So proud to know these rockstar scholars and friends! 🤩 Pictured below: Snow Awardees 2023-2025 🤓

Had an amazing lunch at Leroy and Lewis Barbecue with @carltonfong.bsky.social! It was my first time at a Michelin ⭐️ restaurant and I already can’t wait to come again. Truly grateful for such a delicious meal with my advisor!

#AERA26 EXTENSION! You got your wish @drrobmoore.bsky.social LOL

As many work to finish up #AERA26 submissions, @agustingarcia.bsky.social just told me that #AERA27 is going to be in Toronto, Canada! 🇨🇦

🛑🛑🛑 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!

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...

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. 🧵

Who's the most famous person you went to high school with? I'll go first. This fellow here. Congrats, Darren Criss, on your #TonyAward! We sung together in our high school a cappella group together...

Excited to share the next session in the APA Division 15 Public Scholarship Series with you. I will be moderating this timely conversation hosted by the Div 15 Early Career Educational Psychologists (ECEP) Committee.

Happy to share that my study funded by the AERA Fellowship Program on the Study of Deeper Learning is now published (open access) in AERA Open! Includes insights abt structure, common patterns, & correlates of heterogeneous perceptions of school opportunities. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

I'm thrilled to share that as of May 21, 2025, I officially graduated with my PhD in Postsecondary Student Success from @txst.edu! Thank you to my family, my faculty, and all my colleagues who supported me along my doctoral journey! #PHinisheD #FirstGenPhD #StudentSuccess #HigherEd #TXST

We had a blast during our 3rd annual #LONESTAR gathering here @txst.edu. It was a generative & fun time discussing real world challenges and research-driven solutions for enhancing student learning and motivation, including a fun field trip to the glass-bottom boats 🐢⛴️. See you all next year!

Such a wonderful space to discuss ideas & ponder philosophical questions about education research (e.g., "What is the point of college?"). Thanks so much to @carltonfong.bsky.social for his leadership! 🤗

We had a blast during our 3rd annual #LONESTAR gathering here @txst.edu. It was a generative & fun time discussing real world challenges and research-driven solutions for enhancing student learning and motivation, including a fun field trip to the glass-bottom boats 🐢⛴️. See you all next year!

🚨 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...

For our belonging special issue, the next installment is a wonderful piece by @alexbrowman.bsky.social that digs into how #belonging is defined and what it means, centering social, self-concept, goal, and resource fit as core elements. Check out his open-access paper here: doi.org/10.1007/s106...

New (and first solo) publication on belonging in school, which I'm presenting at AERA today (April 24 @ 5:25 in Bluebird Ballroom Room 3C). Here's the open-access link, and a very quick summary: What do researchers vs. students really mean when we say “belonging”? link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Please join us next week Friday for our final seminar of the 2025 season! We are thrilled to be joined by Dr. Richard Riley (@richarddriley.bsky.social), a leading expert in individual participant data meta-analysis, to discuss the rationale, concepts, and pitfalls in conducting IPD syntheses.

‼️ 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 ‼️

🎉 More exciting news to share! I am honored to have received the Outstanding Doctoral Student Award in Education from the Graduate College at @txst.edu! 🏆🎓 I’m grateful for this recognition! and thankful for everyone who has supported me! #FirstGenPhD #StudentSuccess #HigherEd

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.

This year, #AERA2025 was a wonderful experience! I had the absolute pleasure to co-present with my advisor and mentor, @carltonfong.bsky.social, and my research mentor #DianeSchallert, along with my colleagues across two symposiums, one paper session, and a roundtable.

We are thrilled to announce the #AERA2026 theme "Unforgetting Histories and Imagining Futures: Constructing a New Vision for Education Research"! Read more: www.aera.net/Events-Meeti...

Super excited to be part of this amazing panel later today (Thursday)! 🤩

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!

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

I'm at #AERA2025! Learn about our racial climate meta-analysis today at 5:25 in the session How to Create Environments of Belonging for Students: New Perspectives on School Belonging Research