@zachbaquet.bsky.social created an infographic to help Black parents understand the legacy and impacts of segregation and school choice.
Zach Baquet
@zachbaquet.bsky.social
PhD Student in Quantitative Measurement & Learning Sciences at UH. Studying School Choice + Black Parent Belonging in School Communities.
It was AI week in our Learning Theories seminar today--we have been excited for this topic all semester. We were very fortunate to have Dr. Lora Kaldaras (UH's new professor of Artificial Intelligence, Teaching, and Learning) come chat with us. @poojaroy0514.bsky.social @zachbaquet.bsky.social (1/N)
We talked about Mindsets today in Achievement Motivation, and we were honored by a visit from the always-gracious Carol Dweck! @summerrobinson.bsky.social @tjroyuh.bsky.social @zachbaquet.bsky.social @aera-motsig.bsky.social @aeratepsig.bsky.social (1/N)
Today in Learning Theories, we had the pleasure of David Gagnon from fielddaylab.wisc.edu talk about the learning science of games. Amazing team doing amazing work to create meaningful learning games! @aeratepsig.bsky.social @poojaroy0514.bsky.social @zachbaquet.bsky.social
Hard to believe the semester is almost over! Our exit ticket today in Achievement Motivation was to make a mind map of everything we learned this semester. They only had 20 minutes and didn't finish yet, but I loved this activity and wanted to share them. 😍 @zachbaquet.bsky.social 1/4
@zachbaquet.bsky.social wrote a lit review about Black parents' choices and motivation in predominantly White schools, focusing on Black joy, racialized opportunity costs, and racial socialization through the lens of situated expectancy-value theory:
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)
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.
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...
UH Researchers Develop Safer Treatment for Children with Leukemia
A groundbreaking microfluidic device developed by University of Houston and Baylor College of Medicine researchers could make life-saving leukemia treatments safer for children by reducing risks assoc...
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Attended 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
What We Retrieve Matters - The Effortful Educator
Does information related to explicitly retrieved content experience the positive outcomes of the testing effect?
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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...
Courts rule on Trump administration initiatives including DOGE, DEI
The latest news on President Donald Trump’s return to the White House and the new Congress.
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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_...
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 (2/4)
Why is forgetting such an important part of learning? Robert Bjork explains something that every teacher should know.
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. bit.ly/3CCUdwR
10 Techniques for Retrieval Practice
Image Credit: I’ve written about retrieval practice several times in other posts but here I just want to make it easy to lay out various alternative methods for the process of reviewing your …
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