@zachbaquet.bsky.social
PhD Student in Quantitative Measurement & Learning Sciences at UH. Studying School Choice + Black Parent Belonging in School Communities.
Dr. Allan Wigfield joins Allison Master and a group of graduate students over Zoom
It is always a treat to have Allan Wigfield come chat with students in my Achievement Motivation seminar! @tjroyuh.bsky.social @zachbaquet.bsky.social @summerrobinson.bsky.social @aera-motsig.bsky.social (1/4)
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Photo of faces in a Zoom classroom including 7 PhD students and Dr. Dustin Thoman from San Diego State University
Today in Achievement Motivation, we had an extremely interesting conversation with @dustinthoman.bsky.social about interest! We talked about how important the social context can be for supporting (or harming) the development of interest, particularly for students with stigmatized identities.
20.03.2025 18:38 — 👍 20 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
Traditional blood-filtering treatments for children with leukemia come with serious risks. A team from UH and Baylor College of Medicine has developed a safer alternative. stories.uh.edu/2025-childho...
19.03.2025 15:28 — 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0Attended a research meeting today, and a researcher expressed concern that the study will be flagged because we made it possible for patients who only speak Spanish to enroll.
I admittedly died a little bit inside. Hard to believe this current state is reality. #StandUpforScience
What We Retrieve Matters
Does information related to explicitly retrieved content experience the positive outcomes of the testing effect?
theeffortfuleducator.com/2025/02/24/w...
#edusky
You can’t improve education unless you know what’s happening in education now. The main source of that information in the US is NCES. The commissioner was just put on leave.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Bettye Washington Greene at work at the Dow Chemical Company, 1970s
For #BlackHistoryMonth, let us celebrate the life and accomplishments of Bettye Washington Greene. One of the first African American women in the U.S. to earn a Ph.D. in chemistry, her work contributed to innovations in pharmaceuticals and more. 🎢🧪⚛️ #WomenInSTEM en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bettye_...
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A simplified version of Eccles & Wigfield (2020) SEVT Model, including belonging as on the same level with expectancies and values as predicting choice and performance
We investigated belonging as complementary to expectancies and values and found that competence beliefs & perceptions of course importance and cost related to final course grade; crs interest related to contemporaneous grades during course
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Why is forgetting such an important part of learning? Robert Bjork explains something that every teacher should know.
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In our faculty meeting today, we discussed retrieval practice and the counter-intuitive concept that one must forget in order to learn. We shared Tom Sherrignton’s @teacherhead.bsky.social blog post and asked teachers to choose a few strategies to focus on in the coming weeks.
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