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.

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📢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

MILES Lab representing at #APA25!

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!

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

#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!

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!

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

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

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

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

Check out our newest lab publication!

#tbt to an oldie but a goodie that we use a lot in our presentations! #edusky #academicsky #MotivationScholarMemes #edpsych For more on this, see Dr. R's open access article on motivational support and climate: doi.org/10.1080/0046...

Comparing #students to each other (or yourself to others) promotes a focus on the goal of demonstrating (rather than developing) competence. Noting growth over time & progress toward goals -> supports learning goals! #MotivationScholarMemes #MotivationMonday #MondayMotivation

As we transition over from the old place, some #tbt: For our attribution theory pals! A good reminder for us all--how we explain the causes of our successes and failures in our own minds really matters for our subsequent motivation, emotions, and behavior. #MotivationScholarMemes #MotivationMonday

Competition is one way to spur people into action, but it can have some negative unintended consequences: performance goals, or a focus on displaying competence and outperforming others, rather than on developing competence. This can be self-defeating! #MotivationScholarMemes #MotivationMonday

Supporting students' motivation is tricky #MotivationScholarMemes @aera-motsig.bsky.social #MotivationMonday #edpsych

Happy holidays and end of the semester from us at MILES Lab, with a special appearance by our youngest and cutest lab member baby C! We are thankful for fantastic colleagues here and around the world and wish you all plenty to celebrate and learn from as you reflect on 2024!

Ever wondered what educational psychology researchers do? www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nm1E... #edusky #academicsky

Check out the newest MILES Lab publication! @krisarob.bsky.social and @sanheeta.bsky.social combined data from multiple years of data collection and tried on a critical lens to highlight the motivational experiences of racially and ethnically minoritized students in STEM.

Feel free to swap ‘motivation’ for absolutely any other psychological thing we’ve given a name to, because it’s this all the way up and down

#tbt to an oldie but a goodie that we use a lot in our presentations! #edusky #academicsky #MotivationScholarMemes #edpsych For more on this, see Dr. R's open access article on motivational support and climate: doi.org/10.1080/0046...

Doing a lil' #motivation intervention on myself today: listing something I LOVE about my job and something I think I'm good at: 1. LOVE working with & learning from amazing colleagues. 2. I'm pretty darn good at crafting a response to reviewers. What do you love? What are you good at? #AcademicSky

Comparing #students to each other (or yourself to others) promotes a focus on the goal of demonstrating (rather than developing) competence. Noting growth over time & progress toward goals -> supports learning goals! #MotivationScholarMemes #MotivationMonday #MondayMotivation

I'm thrilled to share this new article with @krisarob.bsky.social that provides commentary and reflections on the topical collection we guest edited for Educational Psychology Review on The Past, Present, and Future of Theory Development in Educational Psychology! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

We are so excited for #AERA25 in Denver! Many thanks to generous reviewers for their constructive comments which will surely improve our work, and to hard-working program chairs (including @carltonfong.bsky.social and @chrisrozek.bsky.social, those we know are on here)!

First author Cole Johnson is threatening to put us all in sailor outfits to promote this paper. 😬 For now, here are some ships in murky waters representing us navigating the until now uncharted territory of motivational climate measurement! 🚢 #edresearch #edpsych

A new edition of #MotivationScholarMemes on this #MotivationMonday! Focusing on outperforming others (performance goals) can have some benefits for performance, but why not also (if not exclusively) focus on learning, growth, and mastery?

Ready for Back to School? Our JEP meta-analysis of 55 studies on motivational regulation strategies is out and may help us to stay motivated and and carry on as we start the fall term! Check it out here: psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-...

As we transition over from the old place, some #tbt: For our attribution theory pals! A good reminder for us all--how we explain the causes of our successes and failures in our own minds really matters for our subsequent motivation, emotions, and behavior. #MotivationScholarMemes #MotivationMonday

Interested in joining MILES Lab as a graduate student? Check out our FAQ for prospective grad students: docs.google.com/document/d/1...