Yin Chen, PhD

Not that it matters, but I beat @benheddy.bsky.social to a ed psych jobs posting 😎🤣

Guess y’all should go follow @aeratepsig.bsky.social job postings too!!

First Motivation Monday of the year! We’re kicking things off with a panel on how to run a research lab featuring Drs. @andreicimpian.bsky.social , @nikkilobczowski.bsky.social, Dionne Cross-Francis, and Daeyon Jong. Don’t miss it!

Register here: tinyurl.com/MotMondays25...

👀 We are seeking nominations for…

✨ Chair-Elect/Program Chair ✨
✨ Graduate Student Coordinator ✨

Please e-mail any nominations to lisa.bendixen@unlv.edu by Oct 15.

Include the following:
*Full Name
*Institution
*Email address
*200-word bio statement

We are excited to expand our team! 🤩

Huge thank you to Yichi Zhang (UGA), Harlee DiNello (UGA), & @emilyqr.bsky.social for their major contributions to this project!

Off the publish our findings 🏃🏻‍♀️

The takeaway:

Black & Hispanic youth see STEM as worthwhile, but concerns about cost and confidence may hold them back.

👉 To broaden STEM career participation, we must highlight STEM’s value and reduce these motivational barriers.

Pfiat euch, Graz! ✨

Key findings:
✨ Most salient motivators = value beliefs (STEM careers were seen as useful, important, interesting to pursue)

🚧 Most salient barriers = cost (time/effort) + low confidence (esp among Hispanic girls)

We qualitatively coded responses using situated expectancy-value theory to see:

👉 which beliefs were most salient in their minds
👉 whether patterns differed by gender × race/ethnicity

This year I presented on racially marginalized Black & Hispanic HS students’ motivational beliefs toward STEM careers.

🔎 We asked ~400 students to write about their perceived benefits & challenges of pursuing STEM.

Me presenting my poster in action

Selfie of me on top of Schlossberg hill

Bottom of Schlossberg hill, view of the steps

Nightsky view of Graz, Austria from my hotel balcony

So grateful to share my work in beautiful Graz 🇦🇹 at #EARLI2025 🌍✨

I’m feeling so inspired by global perspectives and thankful for new colleagues & friends I met during my stay!

I’m on my way! ✈️ So glad to know other peeps joining from the states 😊

My (WFH) partner and I have a daily “floor time” ritual, where we lie on the home office floor for 10 minutes with our pugs and let the existential dread wash over us. 😃

We get up feeling…weirdly better? Honestly a surprisingly good coping strategy for…ya know, ✨everything✨ 10/10 recommend.

Congrats!! 🤩

My first, first author publication is out! It was a joy to be with and write about Black girls in math! ✨

Life of the eldest daughter of immigrants ✨

Back home today to help out with our family restaurant! This place put me through college and grad school. I’ll forever be thankful 💕

Did you miss it? Don't worry, we recorded the session here: youtu.be/GjZsiyFVeCw!

🚨 TODAY!! 🚨 Join us to learn about using Sharing Circles at 2pm ET. Hope to see you there!

Thank you! 🥰

The who and how of STEM career models in high school - Social Psychology of Education Successful individuals with careers in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields, or STEM career models, are often used to encourage students towards pursuing STEM careers. However, exi...

3/Findings offer new insights for educators and equity-focused STEM programs.

If we want to broaden career participation in STEM, we need to rethink how we use role models—starting with who students actually see. 🤩

doi.org/10.1007/s112...

2/Spoiler 🚨: It’s not always who you think. Most students named someone they already know—not a celebrity or scientist from the media.

We dig into what makes these everyday models inspiring, how this varies for students from different groups, & how models are tied to students’ STEM motivation 🔍

‼️New Publication Alert! 🎉

1/Ever wonder who inspires high school students to pursue STEM careers and how they do it?

In our new study, @emilyqr.bsky.social and I asked high schoolers about who their real-life STEM career models are and what makes them motivating.

Read ➡️ doi.org/10.1007/s112...

I have been ✨influenced✨

Flier: Anti-Racist & Anti-Colonial Approaches to Research Series hosted by the APA Division 15's Race & Diversity Committee Convene with us virtually to learn about using sharing circles (a method rooted in traditional practices of many Indigenous communities) to enact anti-racist and anti-colonial research in educational psychology. Friday, June 20th at 11am PT / 2pm ET Zoom registration link: tiny.utk.edu/APADiv15SharingCircles For questions about the session, please contact Dr. Kori Nicolai at knicolai@iu.edu.

Join us on Friday, 6/20 at 2pm EST for the APA Div 15's Anti-Racist & Anti-Colonial Research Methods series! Our final event will focus on using Sharing Circles (a method rooted in traditional practices of many Indigenous communities) w/ Macy Bowman 🤩

Register ➡️: tiny.utk.edu/APADiv15SharingCircles

Ended the spring semester with a picnic and rock painting in the park with my grad TAs ☀️

Cheers to a successful year 1 here at UTK! 🥂🎉

YouTube video by APA Division 15 Division 15 Race & Diversity Webinar: A Critical Quantitative Measurement Perspective

If you missed APA Div 15's Race & Diversity webinar last Friday, don't worry - we recorded it!

"A CritQuant Measurement Perspective: MIMIC Models to Identify & Remediate Racial (and Other) Forms of Bias" by Drs. Matthew Diemer, Aixa Marchand, & Michael Frisby.

➡️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHZb...

Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...

The Spencer Foundation is offering rapid response bridge funding for those who lost NSF research grants.

www.spencer.org/grant_types/...

Our first AERA with all the PhDs in line!! 🎓🎓🎓 🥹

It’s more fun when your colleagues are friends! 🥰

@drbrookeedu.bsky.social
& bluesky-less Dr. Kori Nicolai

😫 I’m so sorry to hear this!!

I’m going to give my FIRST talk ever at AERA tomorrow morning during a Div C symposium on parents’ academic socialization. Thinking about presenting the study closet to my heart to the audience to which I call academic family hypes me up! Come and find out what I’ve been working on!

Annual business meeting of the powerlifting SIG at Club Forum’s “Meat Locker” this morning 😤💪🏼

We are growing in membership! 🤗

@pnbeymer.bsky.social
#AERA2025

TODAY!! Come get a little messy with us 🤩