🚨 Fascinating new randomized intervention study showing the power of growth-oriented communication from college professors for student outcomes! Excellent study design and interesting findings!

Helpful note to all grad students and undergrads working with professors...

Great 🧵on academic paper writing advice!

👀 An opportunity to reflect deeply on your sense of belonging...

👀 What an exciting new meta-analyses about MOTIVATIONAL regulation strategies -- very relevant as we begin this new school year!

Well-deserved honor for a pillar of the belonging community! I am excited about the wonderful work Kelly-Ann Allen, PhD FAPS will be doing in the years to come! 🥳🍾😃

Another new paper out now!🤩 We looked at beliefs about challenge (difficulty, failures, and mistakes) among undergrads in a high-stakes STEM course, using person-centered methods. (1/) authors.elsevier.com/a/1jqda3irP4H0…

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Excited for our paper on college belonging and academic outcomes to be out now! Free view only link (rdcu.be/d2fv2). ResearchGate (researchgate.net/publication/38…)

🚨 Important new paper from the Ed Psych Review special issue on belonging. This paper considers how racial/ethnic identity relates to school belonging and how that might depend on whether asset-based pedagogy is being used in classrooms

Check out our mega-session on belonging if you can!

‼️ If you care about how institutions can support STUDENT BELONGING, make sure to read Kroeper et al. (2025)! They surveyed 15k+ students to uncover 4 important factors that promote belonging and found variation in how different groups of students felt belonging across context‼️

🚨 One issue in school belonging research is we don't have a good definition for it yet! It is MUCH MORE than just positive relationships. This MUST READ paper puts forth a much needed framework for defining school belonging with important implications for research & practice

Interesting methodological advance about how to measure implicit bias more reliably and with better predictive validity.

🛑and read this free open access paper on the Brilliance–Belonging Model, which shows how cultural beliefs about ability lead to inequitable outcomes in education through perceptions of belonging and other downstream psychological mechanisms!

Excellent thread summarizing this new paper in our special issue on School Belonging in Ed Psych Review! link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Surprised that psychologists are still having the same arguments about whether what happens inside people's heads matters for choices and success? I am! But fortunately Carlton J. Fong and Katie Muenks are here to reiterate the overwhelmingly convincing case that motivation matters!