Cristina Zepeda

So well deserved!! 🤩Congratulations!!

My former labmate @maeganarney.bsky.social is running for junior co-chair of MotSIG 🤩 Her work is brilliant, she is committed to PD, has lots of leadership exp & is 1 of the kindest humans I know!

If u are a grad student & have active MotSIG membership make sure u vote by 7/9: bit.ly/MotSIGvote25

And special shout outs to @xinranwendywang.bsky.social for receiving the Graduate Student Research Award from the Studying and Self-Regulated Learning SIG! And to @maemonette.bsky.social & Wes for their 1st AERA presentations! So lucky to work with you all 🤩

So much gratitude after #AERA2025 🌟 Deeply honored to receive the Wilbert J. McKeachie Early Career Award from @aera-motsig.bsky.social
Thank you Andy Butler & @alisonkoenka.bsky.social for believing in me! Celebrating with those who made it possible—mentors, friends, family & esp. mis cariños 🥰

I'm so excited for #AERA2025! This is the 1st year the Advancing Learning Lab has a team of presenters. If you are interested in motivation regulation, learning strategies, & the connection between motivation & cognition, check us out! @xinranwendywang.bsky.social @maemonette.bsky.social

7 presentations at AERA by lab members

Really looking forward to connecting with others at #AERA2025 this week! Come check out the Identity & Academic Motivation Lab presentations. 😀 @aera-motsig.bsky.social @aeratepsig.bsky.social

Going to #AERA25 & interested in STEM ed research or #NSF funding? Check out the ECR Hub's booklet on NSF EDU Core Research at #AERA2025 including #NSFSTEM ECR sessions, networking & tips for AERA 🤩 ecrhub.org/resource/aer...

@ecrhub.bsky.social @aera-motsig.bsky.social @aeradivcgrad.bsky.social

We made it! 🎉

AERA 2025 Division C Section 2b: Learning & motivation in social & cultural contexts program for Sunday, April 27. full program at tinyurl.com/27ftmpll Starts at 8am MDT in the virtual poster hall: Learning and motivation in social and cultural contexts virtual poster session. 8:00-9:30am MDT, Poster session in Colorado Convention Center, Exhibit Hall Level, Exhibit Hall F titled "Student and Parent Perspectives on Motivation and Performance." Six papers included: (1) The Relationship between Educational Expectations and Chinese Rural Children’s Academic Avoidance, Test Anxiety, and Burnout; (2) Academic Pressure or Emotional Detachment? The Complex Effect of Compulsory Boarding Due to the School Merger Policy; (3) Parental Achievement goals, Personal Academic Achievement goals, Personal Social Achievement goals, and Achievement Emotions; (4) Grit, Positive Youth Development, and School Engagement Among Filipino Secondary School Students; (5) Struggle for Beauty or Grades？The Impact of Appearance Anxiety on Adolescent Academic Performance; (6) What is the Purpose of School? Predictors and Consequences of School Relevance. 1:30-3pm MDT, roundtable session in Colorado Convention Center, Ballroom Level, Four Seasons Ballroom 1 titled "Synthesizing Multiple Critical Perspectives on Teaching." Five papers included, titled: (1) The Mediating Effect of Funds of Knowledge on the Relationship between Student-Teacher Racial Matching and Discourse; (2) “Being Unapologetically Myself”: Black Women Teachers’ Identity Negotiation Around Their Psychological Needs Within White Spaces; (3) Both/And: The Joint Influence of Educators’ Diversity Ideologies and Perceptions of Educational Infrastructure on Equity-Focused Practice Implementation; (4) “Test Prep Hangover”: Teachers Describe How Test Prep Practices Endure After the ELA State Exam; (5) Findings From a Scoping Review of Social-Emotional Learning, Culturally Responsive Teaching, and Reading.

Last but not least here is our lineup for #AERA2025 Div C Sec 2B to be held on Sun (4/27)! @czpuede.bsky.social & I are so grateful to co-chair this year! Can’t wait to see the submissions come to life ☺️ @aera-motsig.bsky.social @aeradivcgrad.bsky.social #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky

See the previous days' program events here:
4/25: bsky.app/profile/alli...
4/24: bsky.app/profile/czpu...
4/23: bsky.app/profile/alli...

Two co-sponsored Poster Sessions with Motivation in Education SIG. One called Learning and Motivation in STEM. and another called Exploring Contextual, Climate, and Social Supports for Motivational Processes. Titles of talks listed, but contained too many words to list in system. Another poster session is also being help in the virtual poster hall

Paper Session called Culturally Responsive Practices and Mentorship in STEM Education. Talk titles: Cultivating an Engineering Identity Among Latinx Youth and Addressing Gender Disparities Through Culturally Responsive Efforts, Black and Latine Students’ Experiences of Instructional Belonging Opportunity Structures in STEM: Critical Qualitative Analysis, Faculty Mentors’ Influence on Latinx STEM Undergraduates’ STEM Identity Development, “Mapping Myself” Instrument: Building Bridges and Connections in/to Science, Community and Sustainability" Paper Session called Empowering Students Through Innovative Pedagogies in Environmental and Climate Change Education. Talk titles: Care Praxis–Driven Engineering Design: A Pathway to Advance Justice in Middle School STEM, Exploring A Design Thinking Teamwork Pedagogy for Environmental Science Education, Educating for Action: Undergraduates Learning About Climate Change in an Agentic Context, Addressing the Social Debates of Climate Change Education Through Building Common Ground" Roundtable Session co-sponsored with motivation in education sig called Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Learning and Motivation. Talk titles: Students’ Well-being in the East and West: A Self-determination Theory Perspective, Motivation and Reading Achievement of Language Minority Students: Evidence from PISA 2018, Parental Support Amplifies Growth Mindset Predictions on Student Achievement and Persistence: Evidence across cultures, Teachers' Emotional Supports Facilitate Early Adolescents' Creativity Self-efficacy and Performance Most: An Ecological Comparison between China and Finland"

For our Sat (4/26) round up, @allisonzengilowski.bsky.social & I are thrilled to share the events set for #AERA2025 Div C Sec 2B! Y’all were on 🔥 with these submissions. One more round coming tomorrow! @aera-motsig.bsky.social @aeradivcgrad.bsky.social #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky

AERA 2025 Division C Section 2b: Learning & motivation in social & cultural contexts program for Friday, April 25 (part 1 of 2). 8:00-9:30am MDT, Workshop in Colorado Convention Center, Terrace Level, Bluebird Ballroom Room 3B titled "Turning Insights Into Impact: Bridging the Gap Between Research and Policy in Education." 9:50-11:20am MDT, Symposium in Colorado Convention Center, Terrace Level, Bluebird Ballroom Room 2B titled "The What and How of Parents’ Socialization: Exploring the Bridging Role of Children’s Psychological Processes." Five papers are included, titled: (1) A Parent-Led Spatial Activities Intervention, (2) Parents’ Positive Emotional Affect is Infectious in Dyadic Math Interaction, (3) From Parents to Children: Distinct Relationships of Self-Reported and Child-Perceived Parental Mindsets With Children’s Mindsets, (4) Patterns of Socializers’ Science Support: Retrospective Relations to Motivational Beliefs among Ethno-Racially Minoritized College Students, (5) The relative importance of family influences on STEM college students’ expectancy-value beliefs and career decisions. 11:40am-1:10pm MDT, Paper session co-sponsored with the motivation in education special interest group in Colorado Convention Center, Meeting Room Level, Room 203. Five papers are included, titled: (1) Belonging as a Motivational Principle in Black Students' and Teachers’ School and Science Classroom Experiences; (2) Examining the Relations Between Perceived Classroom Structures, Expectancy-Value Beliefs, and Subsequent Math Performance Among Latino/a Adolescents; (3) How Goal Structures and Academic Expectations Co-Construct One Another: A Multiple Case Study; (4) Math Motivation During Kindergarten and its Association with Classroom Motivational Climate: A Mixed-Methods Inquiry; (5) Race-Reimaged Autonomy Support: Motivational Benefits of Instruction That Integrates Self-Determination Theory and Culturally Relevant Education.

AERA 2025 Division C Section 2b: Learning & motivation in social & cultural contexts program for Friday, April 25 (part 2 of 2). Starts at 8am MDT in the virtual poster hall: Learning and motivation in social and cultural contexts virtual poster session. 1:30-3pm MDT, roundtable session in the Colorado Convention Center, Ballroom Level, Four Seasons Ballroom 4 titled "Leveraging Peer Relationships and Classroom Dynamics." Five papers are included, titled: (1) EFL students’ collaborative learning: The role of self-regulated learning, motivation, and teacher’s support; (2) Fixed-Mindset Peers Negatively Predict Long-Run Educational Progress; (3) Leveraging Social Relationships and Help-Seeking Among Latina/o/x Community College Students: Exploring Gender Differences; (4) Fostering Friendships through Collaborative Reasoning: A Dynamic Social Network Analysis of Adolescent Peer Relationships; (5) Classmates to Friends: Bonding Activities and College Students' Academics, Well-Being, Experience, and Interpersonal Closeness. 3:20-4:50pm MDT, poster session in the Colorado Convention Center, Exhibit Hall Level, Exhibit Hall F titled "Student Identity and Autonomy." Includes six posters titled: (1) Given the Power to Lead, Students Shift Their Classroom from Authoritarian to Adhocratic Governance; (2) “You’re a scientist too?”: Affirming Children’s Voice in Early Childhood Education Classrooms; (3) Longitudinal Influence of Identity Safety on School Attitudes; (4) Summer Bridge Program Influence on a Future Engineer Role Identity: A Case Study; (5) Fostering Latinx Youths’ Ethnic-Racial Identity Through Play: A Conjecture Map; (6) Exploring Undergraduate Students’ Critical Thinking and Optimism through Project-Based Climate Change Education.

Today @czpuede.bsky.social & I are featuring the events set for #AERA2025 Div C Sec 2B to be held on Fri (4/25)! Just look at those titles 😍 @aera-motsig.bsky.social @aeradivcgrad.bsky.social #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky Full program: tinyurl.com/27ftmpll

Thanks, Lauren! I’m going to miss seeing you this year! Its our tradition to catch up over a meal ❤️

And in case you missed our previous post, I'll link it here! bsky.app/profile/alli...

List of Thursday, April, 24th presentations for AERA Division C, Section 2b: Learning and motivation in social and cultural contexts. URL given to see all talks, but here is a snapshot: Poster Session on Focusing on Teachers and Student-Teacher Interactions. Talk titles include (1) Investigating Need Supportive Teaching in Middle School Math and Science Using a Person-Centered Approach (2) Exploring the Dynamic Interplay Between Expectations, Relationships, and Instruction: A Case Study (3) Who Inspires Whom? Reciprocal Relationships Between Teachers’ Enthusiasm and Students’ Interest and Enjoyment (4) Strengthening the Pipeline: Faculty Training and Its Impact on Black and Latinx Community College Students in STEM (5) Student and teacher intellectual humility: The effects of subject, course type, and student background (6) Student Experiences of Confusion and Implications for Instructor Responses (7) Epistemic beliefs and interpersonal communicative competences in preservice teachers’ dialogic argumentation Symposium called "Teaching toward equity: The teaching-learning research stance and its practices". Talks include (1) Situating Critical Explorations in the Classroom toward Culturally Responsive Pedagogy (2) How and Why to Assess Interpretive Authority Balances in Exploratory and Problem-Solving Learning Experiences (3) The Cultivation of Teacher Presence Through the Process of Descriptive Review EdTalk Symposium on "How to Create Environments of Belonging for Students: New Perspectives on School Belonging Research" with several talk titles listed

Ready for round 2? Here are the presentations for #AERA2025 Div C Sec 2B to be held on Thurs (4/24)! @allisonzengilowski.bsky.social & I loved reading these submissions 🤓 More coming tomorrow! @aera-motsig.bsky.social @aeradivcgrad.bsky.social #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky 🌐TINYURL.COM/27FTMPLL

AERA 2025 Division C Section 2b: Learning & motivation in social & cultural contexts program for Wednesday, April 23. Starts at 8am MDT in the virtual poster hall: Learning and motivation in social and cultural contexts virtual poster session. Papers include 1. Instructor high-arousal, positive affect, relatedness need satisfaction, and east asian college student engagement 2. HLM: Collective efficacy, growth mindset, and classroom ELA outcomes controlling for SES and school size 3. Changing patterns of academic social comparison emotions among high school students in South Korea: Latent profile analysis 10:50am-12pm MDT: paper session in Colorado convention center meeting room level, room 404. Session titled "dynamics of student engagement and peer influence in collaborative settings. Papers include: 1. The Hidden Ingredients of Engagement: Collective Efficacy and Respectful Demeanors 2. Analyzing Changes in Engagement Patterns during Collaborative Discussions among Chinese Adolescents: An Epistemic Network Analysis 3. The Secret Language of Peers: How Peer Behaviors Signal Mindset and Influence Classroom Experiences 4. Helpful, Harmful, or Somewhere In-Between? Exploring Features of Peer Motivational Climate amongst University Mathematics Students"

@czpuede.bsky.social and I are excited to share the program for #AERA2025 Div C Sec 2B: Motivation & Learning in Social & Cultural Contexts! Today we're highlighting Wed (4/23) presentations ✨ More to come! @aera-motsig.bsky.social @aeradivcgrad.bsky.social #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky

2025 Karabenick Conversations with a Motivation Scholar Event Sign-up Once again, the Motivation in Education SIG is pleased to offer an opportunity for graduate student members of the SIG to meet in a small group with a motivation researcher. This year the researcher...

This year, we’re excited to feature Drs. Cameron Hecht, Teomara Rutherford (@drteyar.bsky.social), Alison Koenka (@alisonkoenka.bsky.social), Joanna Garner, Cristina Zepeda (@czpuede.bsky.social), Elizabeth Canning (@canning.bsky.social). Sign up by March 31: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

That’s so great to hear, Ewan! I know they enjoyed meeting with you so hopefully we can get together next time 😊

No one tells you how sweet it is to see your students shine during their 1st conference 🤩 #psynom24 was awesome & now we gotta get these 3 papers on SRL & desirable difficulties out into the world! So lucky to work with @arichmond10.bsky.social @xinranwendywang.bsky.social @serenaluo.bsky.social

Announcement for workshop: Encouraging future scientists, supporting undergraduates at Psychonomics. Fri Nov 22 from noon- 1:30pm in the Lyceum Complex (5th floor)

If you know undergraduate students attending Psychonomics, please encourage them to attend this workshop on Friday at noon. I will be one of the panel speakers, and we are discussing grad school applications and succeeding in grad school. #psynom24

Thanks for putting this together! Would love to be included!

I don't think anyone has started a Learning Scholars starter pack, so here we go! Let me know if you'd like to be added, removed, etc. Please share!
go.bsky.app/CBPm1dV

We’re excited to announce that the Psychonomic Society is now on Bluesky! Posts will begin in January. Please help spread the word by following us and reposting.

What a group of scholars 🤩 Thanks for the great recap, Lisa!!

WICS+ event at #Psynom23 Prioritizing your visibility featuring Sarah Brown-Schmidt, Monica Casselhano, Anne Cleary, Bonnie Nozari

Anne Cleary mentions how organizing conference programming helped her make connections with other scientists and led to long-term collaborations. 1/

In our new open access paper we find that motivation regulation can often act as a buffer on cost except when things get too costly😮‍💨 Check out how the different dimensions of cost play out 👀
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Such a fun project & team led by @yekim.bsky.social #edusky #psychscisky

My intent was to prepare my students but I didn’t realize how much I’d learn from these replies as a new PI! Thank you all for sharing your questions and the reasons why 🤩

Such a great excercise!

Great point! I will make sure we talk about this as sometimes it can feel wrong to critique in a setting like an interview.

I think I would have been shocked if I was asked this back in the day - but so important to show how you value the whole person as a PI!