Yin Chen, PhD

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 🤩

So excited for members of the Motivation and Academic Choices Lab to present their work at #AERA2025 this year! Please come check out what we have been working on.

Hear from the following diverse scholars who have experienced and embraced the messiness in their innovative, equity-centered scholarship! 😮‍💨

➡️ Dr. Carlton Fong (@carltonfong.bsky.social)
➡️ Dr. Daniela DiGiacomo
➡️ Taylor Cummings
➡️ Destiny Williams-Dobosz (@destinywd.bsky.social)

Navigating educational research: Key decisions, challenges, and ethical choices in messy data collection and analysis Here's what you can expect: Educational research is "messy," especially when taking new and innovative approaches or adapting to the ever-changing political, social, cultural, and educational landscapes. This session provides opportunities for researchers to share the messiness of research, past challenges, and encourage scholars to instead feel empowered to think about innovative research practices. Following a series of Pecha Kucha style presentations, audience members will participate in a brief workshop challenging them to embrace the messiness and challenges in their current projects. Speakers: - Dr. Carlton Fong - Dr. Daniela Digiacomo - Taylor Cummings, Ph.D. candidate - Destiny Williams-Dobosz, Ph.D. candidate Session chairs: - Dr. Xiao-Yin Chen - Dr. Korinthia D. Nicolai Details: Meeting Room Level, Level 102 Friday, April 25, 2025 11:40am to 1:10pm MDT https://tinyurl.com/26yk9g7h

Attending #AERA2025? 👀 Might I recommend adding this exciting Division C invited session focused on navigating ✨messy✨ educational research?

Friday, April 25th
11:40am - 1:10pm MDT
Colorado Convention Center
Meeting Room Level, Room 102
tinyurl.com/26yk9g7h

congratulations!! 🎉

On days when I’m less confident, I always refer to my “Evidence of Awesomeness” doc.

Any affirming notes, comments, emails from mentors, students, etc. are dropped in here to remind me of my “awesomeness” 🤩

You’re probably awesome too; Highly recommend documenting and reflecting on the evidence!

Soooo proud of this paper, particularly because Licia is a ROCKSTAR who led this project as an undergraduate student! 🤩

It was very nostalgic for them! Now wondering how I can just assign the whole movie (they requested this!)…😆

a group of people are dancing with the words stick to the stuff you know on the bottom ALT: a group of people are dancing with the words stick to the stuff you know on the bottom

The best part of teaching development theories is all the fun videos and examples I get to talk about with my students. Today, we’re learning about Erikson’s Psychosocial Theory and identity crises during adolescence. I’ll be showing a *very scholarly* video, from High School Musical 😊

Looking to make your AERA 2025 even more productive? The MotSIG GSC is offering two amazing opportunities! First, our Mentor-Mentee Program for first-time AERA attendees, where we pair you with an AERA veteran to help you navigate the conference. Sign up by April 4:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Next, we’ve got the Karabenick Conversations, a chance to grab coffee with some prolific motivation scholars. Have your questions answered, chat about your research, or just vibe with others who share your passion.

Congratulations, Dr. Song!!!! So happy that I got to see you shine today! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼