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Alyssa Emery @alyssaemery.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Why not an autoethnography? 🙂 Tony Adams has some great resources!

Alyssa Emery @alyssaemery.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Most research tends to assume the MOHM and then apply it to neurodivergent groups looking for similarities & differences with extant findings, but there hasn’t been much exploring whether another functional metaphor better explains the learning process. Miller-Cotto and Gordon (2025) is a good read!

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Alyssa Emery @alyssaemery.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

2/2 There are other dimensions to being neurodivergent that explain learning differences. One example: affective experiences. Some groups report more Pervasive Drive for Autonomy (fka pathological demand avoidance), resulting in more stress responses during learning, which affects WM & encoding

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Alyssa Emery @alyssaemery.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

My current understanding is that we use the same language to describe the process of learning (e.g. the model of human memory) but there are patterns of difference! Example: the idea of associative memory applies to all, but the ways folks organize info varies (which then affects retrieval cues) 1/2

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Alyssa Emery @alyssaemery.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

What if school isn’t the right place to study curiosity? What should researchers do if students don’t think there’s a meaningful difference between curiosity & interest? Do we need students to feel curious at all? Our study offers some considerations for the next phase of curiosity research:

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How Do Students Understand the Concept of “Curiosity?” Critical Implications for Research From a Multiple Methods Investigation - Alyssa Emery, Rebecca Louick, Nicolas Stelter, 2026

Given the link between curiosity and students’ motivation and achievement, research often explores when and how students experience curiosity in school. However...

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Matt Bernacki @mattbernacki.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

The Handbook of Personalized Learning is finally in print! Arrived yesterday(!) & pre-order pricing thru 🦃. www.routledge.com/Handbook-of-... We provided teachers & designers with a guide to theoretically supported PL design logic & demos across subject areas, ages, & contexts. +DIY figure! ⬇️

Handbook of Personalized Learning, in print and held to show cover.

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Jeff Greene @jeffgreene.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Universal Design for Learning is a great way to think about supporting learners - but did you know it's also a great way to think about doing research? In this podcast episode, Dr. Samantha Daley talks about her wonderful article on using UDL to inform research. #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky

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Samantha G. Daley

Dr. Samantha G. Daley joins podcast host Dr. Jeff Greene to discuss her Educational Psychologist article, “Universal design of educational psychology? Improving theory and application by focusing on s

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Jeff Greene @jeffgreene.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

I'm so pleased the latest issue of #EducationalPsychologist is focused on how students with disabilities can be included in psychological research. Hear all about the special issue, & the guest editors' Transdisciplinary Inclusivity model, in this podcast episode! #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky

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Ben Heddy & Alyssa Emery

Dr. Ben Heddy and Dr. Alyssa Emery join podcast host Dr. Jeff Greene to discuss their Educational Psychologist article, “Transdisciplinary inclusivity: strategies and implications for integrating stud

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Alyssa Emery @alyssaemery.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

In particular, my deepest gratitude to Jeff Greene for his editorial stewardship. I learned so much from his incisive and constructive feedback, and sincerely value his championing of our ideas as we've worked to weave them together.

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Alyssa Emery @alyssaemery.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

I want to publicly thank the outgoing editors, Jeff Greene and Lisa Linnenbrink-Garcia, for leading the field in affirming that disability is not a peripheral issue, but central to the work we do as educational psychologists, & that students with disabilities matter in both scholarship and practice.

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Alyssa Emery @alyssaemery.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

So while my primary hope is that you (yep, you) design your next study actively recruiting students with disabilities to be in it, I also hope that reading the articles helps you strike up a conversation with a colleague about these ideas too.

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Alyssa Emery @alyssaemery.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

...which means we've had a number of years to name these ideas and hear each other's perspectives and find consensus. Writing & editing these manuscripts helped us see where we disagreed or were talking past each other in ways that I think are truly valuable for all collaborators to experience.

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Alyssa Emery @alyssaemery.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Across the editorial team alone, we had one wedding, two promotions, three institutional moves, and three babies--with no gestational overlap--in the time between submitting the initial proposal and the issue going live...

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Alyssa Emery @alyssaemery.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

I'm not doing these manuscripts any justice in this thread! They are thought-provoking yet accessible; clear and compelling. I'm so indebted to the authors & editorial team for their efforts on this special issue which has been *years* in the making.

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Alyssa Emery @alyssaemery.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Erik Hines, Renae Mayes, Donna Ford, Tanya Middleton, and James Moore III demonstrate how existing frameworks (like bioecological systems theories) can be transformed to amplify students' strengths and turn a critical eye on making real systemic change when rooted in Afrocentric cultural styles.

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A culturally responsive, ecological approach to cultivating and engaging twice-exceptional black males in gifted and talented and special education

Cultivating and engaging twice exceptional (2E) Black males, and making advanced academic programs and special education (SPED) services culturally responsive, more inclusive and equitable, are vit...

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Alyssa Emery @alyssaemery.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Samantha Daley argues that research in the field would be better--more robust, asking more interesting research questions and offering enriched insights--if researchers designed studies in the same way teachers are encouraged to design their classrooms: inclusive from the beginning.

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Universal design of educational psychology? Improving theory and application by focusing on students with disabilities

Including students with disabilities is critical to the relevance and application of educational psychology theory and research. In this article, I draw on the Universal Design for Learning framewo...

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Alyssa Emery @alyssaemery.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

It's here! The newest issue of @edpsychjournal.bsky.social asks: why aren't you including students with disabilities in your research? Then, an amazing group of scholars demonstrate how and why they DO. I want to highlight a few aspects of the special issue in particular:

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Toward Equity in Educational Psychology: Including Students with Disabilities in Research and Theory. Volume 60, Issue 3 of Educational Psychologist

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Alyssa Emery @alyssaemery.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

A great opportunity for AERA Div C members (especially 3a!)

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Alyssa Emery @alyssaemery.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Turning pain into student learning gains

A slide with a picture of OSU coach Ryan Day. The slide heading reads “Dimensions of Attributions: Why did OSU lose to Michigan?” Also on the slide is a 2x2 grid representing the dimensions of attribution theory. As an example of stable, internal attribution, the text reads “I am irreparably bad at my job.”

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Alyssa Emery @alyssaemery.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Ha, I was just too star struck by everyone else to notice 😍. Thanks again!

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Alyssa Emery @alyssaemery.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

May I join too? Thanks for putting this together!

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Gabriel Rodríguez Lemus, Jr. @grodriguezlemus.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Community for Education Scholars in all areas and concentrations looking to find each other! Please reply to this post if you want to be added!! #EducationScholars go.bsky.app/BaXvoap

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Alyssa Emery @alyssaemery.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Room for one more? Thanks for putting this together + managing!

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Mary C. Murphy @marycmurphy.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Now more than ever community and support is needed. That’s why @sylviapperry.bsky.social and I are happy to solicit applications for the 3rd annual CASBS Summer Institute on Diversity. If you're a pre-tenure prof studying diversity, apply & repost! Apps due: Dec 11 casbs.stanford.edu/call-applica...

Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University Institute on Diversity

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Alyssa Emery @alyssaemery.bsky.social · 09/11/2023

I have two that I’ll email you if you’d like to have some on deck

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Alyssa Emery @alyssaemery.bsky.social · 20/10/2023

Grateful to you, Lisa, and the editorial board of Educational Psychologist!

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Alyssa Emery @alyssaemery.bsky.social · 19/10/2023

To that end, to do my part in changing the tide, that's all I know to do: conduct the kind of empirical & conceptual work I want to see, ask questions about the exclusion of participants with disabilities when I'm asked to review, and bring up these topics on forums like this one. Other ideas? 9/9

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Alyssa Emery @alyssaemery.bsky.social · 19/10/2023

To be clear, I am certain the editors (and the authors) care about this! Perhaps he'd regret me sharing, but Paul Schutz has taken significant time editing my work and giving me informal advice about how to publish work about disability in ed psych journals. 8/x

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Alyssa Emery @alyssaemery.bsky.social · 19/10/2023

I tend to attribute the exclusion of students with disabilities in our research to educational psychology's past, which is firmly rooted in eugenics. But it's a contemporary issue of epistemology an axiology, too. 7/x

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Alyssa Emery @alyssaemery.bsky.social · 19/10/2023

Anyway, I remain as puzzled as I was on my first day of grad school over a decade ago as to why students with disabilities are ignored in educational psychology, a field that prioritizes developing universal meta-theories of everything. That probably sounds snarky, but it's an earnest question! 6/x

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Alyssa Emery @alyssaemery.bsky.social · 19/10/2023

There is a chapter on exceptionalities (authored by Dr. Desireé Vega - it's a great read) that focuses on gifted students. The index indicates that 'giftedness' and related terms appear throughout the volume. 5/x

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Alyssa Emery @alyssaemery.bsky.social · 19/10/2023

To that end: that's the only way I know how to do my part in changing the tides. Keep writing, keep submitting, keep asking questions about why students with disabilities aren't included when I'm asked to review for journals, and keep raising the issue in these kinds of forum. Other ideas? 9/9

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Alyssa Emery @alyssaemery.bsky.social · 19/10/2023

I know that the editors and many (all?) of the authors of the Handbook care about this! Perhaps he'd regret me saying so, but Paul Schutz has taken significant time editing my work and giving me informal advice on how to publish about disability in ed psych journals. 8/x

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Alyssa Emery @alyssaemery.bsky.social · 19/10/2023

I've often attributed the exclusion of issues related to disability from the work of educational psychologists as a consequence of the history of field, which is firmly rooted in eugenics. But it's a contemporary issue of epistemology and axiology, too. 7/x

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Alyssa Emery @alyssaemery.bsky.social · 19/10/2023

Anyway, I remain as puzzled as I was on my first day of grad school over a decade ago as to why our field categorically ignores folks with disabilities, and yet also aims to develop universal meta-theories of everything. That probably sounds snarky, but it's an earnest question. 6/x

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Alyssa Emery @alyssaemery.bsky.social · 19/10/2023

What I'm hoping for in the next Handbook: a real commitment to the inclusion of students with disabilities. The word 'disability' doesn't even appear in the index. Related terms (e.g.,specific diagnoses or common euphemisms, like "learning struggles") are also absent. 4/x

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Alyssa Emery @alyssaemery.bsky.social · 19/10/2023

I'm also pleased to see the Handbook open and close with topics relating to philosophy of science. Expanding our agreement of what knowledge is and how it's constructed is necessary to move the field forward. 3/x

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Alyssa Emery @alyssaemery.bsky.social · 19/10/2023

First, enormous respect for Drs. Schutz and Muis. They've obviously taken concerted efforts to center issues of the day - namely racial injustice and inequity - throughout the Handbook. 2/x

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Alyssa Emery @alyssaemery.bsky.social · 19/10/2023

It's new Handbook day! I received my preorder of the Handbook of Educational Psychology early - anyone else? Excited for this volume to join its well-thumbed cousins. I was honored to be among the many reviewers, and delighted to see friends among the esteemed author teams. First impressions... 1/x

A stack of four Handbook of Educational Psychology, with the oldest on the bottom and newest on top, sits on top of a desk in a campus office.

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