The APA Division 15 Committee on the Development of Early Career Educational Psychologists (ECEP) is seeking new committee members! We are a fun group that does great work. Join us! Applications due June 14. purdue.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Junior Co-Chair Nominations Is Open: If you’re interested in running for this position or nominating someone else, please submit your/their information in bit.ly/JuniorCoChai... by May 23. Voting will take place in June. More information is available in the survey link.

The APA Division 15 ECEP Committee is hosting one final webinar before APA this August. Please join us as we learn from the APA Division 15 Public Committee Tuesday May 5th, 12 EDT! (Scan QR code to register)

🚨New Practice Brief!🚨 We offer recommendations on how to enhance teacher well-being. Check it out! @appliededpsych.bsky.social apadiv15.org/education-pr...

🥳 Congratulations to Shuangting Li for presenting our research at MPA this week on a new method that combines sentiment and topic analysis. His work pushes my thinking on how to capture situated emotions. Keep him on your radar!

Webinar [on April 21st]: Advancing Research Through Policy: Tools for Emerging and Early Career Scholars I am looking forward to moderating a timely conversation and learning from our panelists: Drs. Michael Nussbaum, Dalal Katsiaficas, Ross Whiting & Lupe Díaz Lara Registration link below:

🚨Check this🚨 An amazing conversation facilitated by @destinywd.bsky.social about translating research into practice! @appliededpsych.bsky.social #ECEPWebinar You can view the recording and additional resources here: youtu.be/Vd_OITeKWU8

📣 📣 Webinar 📣 📣 Translating Research into practice: Tools for Emerging & Early Career Scholars Join us are partnering with the Practice Committee for a webinar on translational research and practice briefs. Please register at tinyurl.com/ECEPWebinarA... #ECEPWebinar #appliedEdpsych #ECEPWebinar

@spspnews.bsky.social conference was really fun! I presented on identity dynamics using the #DSMRI; met Dr. Clore (Affect-as-Information) saw @aera-motsig.bsky.social friends; and reconnected with @sarabchadwick.bsky.social, a friend from high school!

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This is very delayed (sorry!). Last semester, Dr. @yinchen.bsky.social presented her research on perceived similarities with social models to my undergraduate Learning Science students. It was a wonderful session. I highly recommend you invite her to speak to your students. Thank you, Dr. Chen!

Writing is thinking Outsourcing the entire task of writing to LLMs will deprive us of the essential creative task of interpreting our findings and generating a deeper theoretical understanding of the world.

In this chapter, I align creativity theory with the #DSMRI and reimagine a case study to demonstrate the utility of employing DSMRI protocols that center on roles, action, and motivation for describing human creativity and work.

Facilitating contentious discussions on volatile topics may disrupt curricular aims. That is why we present this theory-to-practice paper, which outlines clear classroom strategies for navigating emotions during controversial discussions. www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

An important outcome of my dissertation research was the identification of recommendations to support adaptive forms of teacher empathy. In this chapter, we outline several recommendations, including encouraging teacher educators to be specific about what they mean by #empathy.

We explored the relationships between empathy and interest during a VR classroom experience. Using non-metric multidimensional scaling, we found an association between emotional engagement and student interest in supporting learning outcomes. #VR #EdTech #Empathy

While outside my normal research agenda, I loved working on this paper. Using the life and work of Fritz Haber, we demonstrated that legacy is controlled by gatekeepers. "From Haber we learn that legacy is not something we as creators can control. We never will." A humbling reminder.

In this paper, we explored the influence of a school task on engagement, task value, emotions, and John Henryism (i.e., high-effort coping). Using these context- and race-sensitive constructs, we found a strong relationship between John Henryism and task value, in relation to student identities.

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