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🚨 @drkellyallen.bsky.social's new paper features interviews with 10 belonging scholars on the Integrative Framework of Belonging, offering novel insights that clarify, deepen, and reshape the model! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The revised figure showing the Integrative Framework of Belonging

Delighted to share @drkellyallen.bsky.social's paper reformulating the Integrative Framework of Belonging through interviews of other esteemed belonging researchers! This open-access paper does a deep dive on the theory––a must read for anyone using the framework! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Carlton J. Fong @carltonfong.bsky.social · last yr.

Surprised that psychologists are still having the same arguments about whether what happens inside people’s heads matters for choices & success? I am! But fortunately @drmuenks.bsky.social and @carltonfong.bsky.social are here to reiterate the overwhelmingly convincing case that motivation matters!

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Co-authored with @drmuenks.bsky.social, our @insidehighered.com piece "Beyond Behaviorism: Why Motivation Matters" is out! We reject behaviorist principles and argue that understanding the science behind motivation is crucial for supporting student learning. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

Beyond Behaviorism: Why Student Motivation Matters (opinion)

Understanding the science behind motivation is crucial for supporting student learning, Katie Muenks and Carlton Fong write.

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Christina Bauer@cabauer.bsky.social · last yr.

Excellent thread summarizing this new paper in our special issue on School Belonging in Ed Psych Review doi.org/10.1007/s106...

The Brilliance–Belonging Model: How Cultural Beliefs About Intellectual Ability Undermine Educational Equity - Educational Psychology Review

As societies worldwide grapple with substantial educational inequities, understanding their underlying causes remains a priority. Here, we introduce the Brilliance–Belonging Model, a novel theoretical...

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🚨Excited our review on the way brilliance-beliefs undermine educational equality just got accepted at Ed Psych Review 😍 In the paper, we introduce the Brilliance-Belonging Model (BBM), which helps us understand when and how brilliance-beliefs work... 🧵 tinyurl.com/5c4aez9w

🛑🛑🛑 and read this free open access paper introducing 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!

Our special issue keeps growing with @cabauer.bsky.social et al’s paper on the Brilliance-Belonging Model, illuminating how beliefs about ability create inequities through their impact on students' belonging @andreicimpian.bsky.social @aashnap.bsky.social Open-access here: doi.org/10.1007/s106...

Cristina Zepeda@czpuede.bsky.social · last yr.

As @maeganarney.bsky.social advisor, I’m biased, but I completely agree and encourage a vote for Maegan Arney for MotSIG junior co-chair!

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

Katie Kroeper @katiekroe.bsky.social · last yr.

Although this isn’t exactly new news, I wanted to share more about a paper that came out while I was on maternity leave: “Who Gets to Belong in College? An Empirical Review of How Institutions Can Assess and Expand Opportunities for Belonging on Campus,” published in Educational Psychology Review. 🧵

Article titled “Who Gets to Belong in College? An Empirical Review of How Institutions Can Assess and Expand Opportunities for Belonging on Campus,” published in Educational Psychology Review (2025).

Abstract: Over a dozen rigorous randomized-controlled trials show that recognizing worries about belonging in a new school as normal and as improving with time can help students stay engaged, build relationships, and succeed. Such “social-belonging” interventions can help students take advantage of opportunities available to them to develop their belonging in college—yet what is the institutional role? Drawing on past literature, and reporting novel data from the College Transition Collaborative’s massive trial of the social-belonging intervention (N = 15,143 control-condition students in 374 “local-identity” groups across 22 representative colleges and universities; Walton et al., 2023), we explore who gets to belong in college and what institutional leaders can do to expand these opportunities. First, we find that opportunities for belonging (i.e., “belonging affordances”) vary widely, both across institutions and systematically across groups. Notably, Black, Asian, and first-generation college student groups are each less likely than other groups to have minimally adequate opportunities for belonging. Second, all institutions are serving some student groups well, but all can improve: none provides adequate belonging affordances for all groups. Third, four classes of institutional factors predict belonging affordances at the identity-group level: (1) greater in-group representation, (2) more inclusive cultures, (3) greater opportunities for strong relationships, and (4) greater opportunities for productive learning. We conclude by discussing how institutions can learn for whom they are creating opportunities for belonging and for whom they are not, and how institutions can expand opportunities for belonging for groups that are not yet well served.

Alex Browman @alexbrowman.bsky.social · last yr.

I argue that historically, educational and social psychology have largely equated belonging with social connectedness. Social connectedness is, of course, essential for belonging.

🚨 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 bsky.app/profile/alex...

For our belonging special issue, the next installment is a wonderful piece by @alexbrowman.bsky.social that digs into how #belonging is defined and what it means, centering social, self-concept, goal, and resource fit as core elements. Check out his open-access paper here: doi.org/10.1007/s106...

‼️ If you care about how institutions can support STUDENT BELONGING, make sure to read: link.springer.com/article/10.1...! 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 ‼️

Katie Kroeper @katiekroe.bsky.social · last yr.

Another article in our special issue is out! In a GIANT study of over 15,000 students, 22 colleges, & ~400 local student identity groups, @katiekroe.bsky.social et al. “explore who gets to belong in college and what institutional leaders can do to expand these opportunities” doi.org/10.1007/s106...

Excited to be featured by the Chronicle of Evidence-Based Mentoring chatting about a recent paper with Katherine Emerson, Maithreyi Gopalan, and Greg Walton. We looked at actionable ways institutions can create belonging opportunities for students.

Profiles in Mentoring: Katie Kroeper on Fostering Belonging through Institutional Change – The Chronicle of Evidence-Based Mentoring

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Dr. Allison Master @allisonmaster.bsky.social · last yr.

It’s a tough time for STEM education research right now, but we are still excited to share our new PNAS paper, “Divergence in children’s gender stereotypes and motivation across STEM fields”! We have big surveys (2,765 students in Grades 1-12), 2 pre-registered studies, and open data. (1/13)

Interesting in SCHOOL BELONGING?? We hope you can join us tonight at AERA for a mega-session on cutting edge new belonging perspectives and research!

Join us for our awesome session on School Belonging on Thursday featuring insights and suggestions from an amazing group of scholars, youth, and educators! Session Details: tinyurl.com/2axq6juh #AERA2025 #AERABelonging @aera-motsig.bsky.social @aeradivcgrad.bsky.social @chrisrozek.bsky.social

🚨 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

The next article in our special issue is out! Lopez et al. @falopeziglesias.bsky.social synthesized 22 studies and created a theoretical model for thinking about Latine youth, their ethnic-racial identity, school belonging, and asset-based pedagogy: doi.org/10.1007/s106... @aera-motsig.bsky.social

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

(PDF) A Scoping Review of the Associations Between Sense of Belonging and Academic Outcomes in Postsecondary Education

PDF | Given the theorized importance of college belonging for academic success, we conducted a scoping review of studies examining relationships between... | Find, read and cite all the research you n...

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Markus Brauer @markusbrauer.bsky.social · 2y ago

The 2nd article is a scoping review by a great team (incl yours truly and @chrisrozek.bsky.social) on links between college #belonging & academic outcomes and the need to explore institutional & individual factors: doi.org/10.1007/s106... Special thanks to guest editor @drkellyallen.bsky.social! 🙏

The title and abstract for the article "A Scoping Review of the Associations Between Sense of Belonging and Academic Outcomes in Postsecondary Education"

New publication alert! 🚨 My former graduate student (Dr. Naomi Isenberg) and I have a new paper in Scientific Reports about how Americans underestimate diversity support and that correcting this boosts inclusion. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Diversity and inclusion have greater support than most Americans think - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Diversity and inclusion have greater support than most Americans think

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The first article is a phenomenal review by Rebecca Covarrubias that discusses how belonging is not only psychological but also political, highlighting paradoxes of school belonging, “reimaging who can, wants, and gets to belong.” 🔥 OPEN ACCESS paper here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The title and abstract for the article "On Being Accepted: Interrogating How University Cultural Scripts Shape Personal and Political Facets of Belonging"

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