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Dr. Teomara (Teya) Rutherford @drteyar.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

I'm trying to sign up as a reviewer for #AERA27, but for the first time in 15 years or so, I might not be able to. @aeraedresearch.bsky.social won't accept my login for the new system, it won't let me make a new one, it just keeps giving me error upon error. Anyone else encountering these issues?

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Dr. Teomara (Teya) Rutherford @drteyar.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Saw my first instance of what I'm pretty sure was a GenAI-generated journal review (spotted w/my nosy peek at the other reviews after finishing mine). Giveaway was the repeated mention of constructs that were nowhere in the manuscript. Editors, I'm sorry you have to deal with this. What a headache.

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Dr. Teomara (Teya) Rutherford @drteyar.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

A haiku for my morning frustrations: Sorry I could not Complete that journal review I could not log in

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Dr. Teomara (Teya) Rutherford @drteyar.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Finally got a decline on a grant I submitted in June of 2024 where one of the reviewers slammed me for not including research that came out three months after I submitted the grant. Um, ok...

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Elena Silla @elenamsilla.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Education colleagues: I am partnering with middle- and high-school math teachers in DE, PA, and MD to look at how belonging-supportive instruction shapes students' math experiences (see infographic). Teachers can participate in 2025 or early 2026. Please share w/ teachers who may be interested!

A flyer describing the current study. It says: Interested in Belonging-Centered Instruction? We are looking for middle- and high-school math teachers to participate in a study examining the relationship between Belonging-Centered Instruction and mathematical thinking and learning. The study will take place in Spring / Fall 2025. What you will be asked to do: Meet with our research team to discuss our study goals and your interests; record 3 math lessons and share them with our research team; lead students through math survey and assessments (~30 minutes), all data and information will be kept confidential. Benefits of participating: Participating teachers will receive a $100 gift card as a thank you for participating; We will work with you to provide resources, information, and support regarding Belonging-Centered Instruction.

It also provides information about the PIs: Elena Silla is a PhD candidate studying Education at the University of Delaware. She is also a former 4th grade teacher.
Dr. Christina Areizaga Barbieri is an associate professor of education at the University of Delaware.
Please contact Elena Silla (esilla@udel.edu) if interested!

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Carlton J. Fong @carltonfong.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

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...

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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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Dr. Teomara (Teya) Rutherford @drteyar.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

They found some, but they aren't the good kind. Sad that I go to enough conferences that I have an opinion on "the good kind" of lanyard

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Dr. Teomara (Teya) Rutherford @drteyar.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Folks going to #APA2025, they have already run out of lanyards at registration. If you haven't left home yet, you may want to bring your own. Not sure how this happens. Seems a pretty huge error.

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Dr. Teomara (Teya) Rutherford @drteyar.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

My accomplishment in self-regulation today is reading someone post on a forum that they are an "auditory learner" and being able to hold off replying with a slew of anti-learning styles evidence. It wouldn't have been helpful or well received in that moment and I'm feeling good I could resist.

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Dr. Teomara (Teya) Rutherford @drteyar.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

I felt that way about their fries until I learned you can order them well done. Still not better than Wendy's fries though.

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Dr. Teomara (Teya) Rutherford @drteyar.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Most of what I clocked was lots and lots of sexism on display (and dismissal if they were called on it).

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Dr. Teomara (Teya) Rutherford @drteyar.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

It's taken me a while to decompress from #AERA25 and one thing I took away from the conference is that the mood has certainly shifted. Many people were emboldened to proclaim their bigotry loudly and proudly. 😢

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Meg Botello @meg-botello.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Grateful to share that my very first, first-authored manuscript has been published! Thanks to my advisors & community❤️It feels surreal to have added a very small piece to the field that I care about so much. Check out my highlights and read more about it here: journals.uchicago.edu/eprint/KVUY6...

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Dr. Teomara (Teya) Rutherford @drteyar.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Yes! None of that "I'll just use my teacher voice" stuff.

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Dr. Teomara (Teya) Rutherford @drteyar.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

As everyone gets ready for #AERA25, I make another anti-ableism plea: If you talk the talk w/anti-ableist practices, show you walk the walk. The very least you can do is wear a mask on the plane. Bonus if you wear one in the airport and at #AERA2025 too. But PLEASE at least wear one on the plane.😷=❤️

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Dr. Teomara (Teya) Rutherford @drteyar.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

What is everyone doing with all their free time with zoom being down?

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Hye Rin Lee @hyerinlee.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

📚 Check out our new study with Sandy, @drteyar.bsky.social, @rebeccajcollie.bsky.social, and Cory: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...! 🧐 Still curious to learn more? Come to our 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣5️⃣ AERA talk: ⏰ April 26th at 11:40-1:10 PM 📍The Colorado Convention Center, Bluebird Ballroom Room 3C

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Exploring domain-general and course-specific latent profiles of motivation in computer science

Although achievement motivation theories like the Situated Expectancy–Value Theory highlight domain-general and course-specific motivation, few studie…

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Dr. Teomara (Teya) Rutherford @drteyar.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Because #AERA25 posters are due this week, here is one last ask: Please make a non-interactive poster so people don't have to touch it, multiple people can see at once, and viewers don't have to get close. Easiest way is to upload a pdf. iPosters are ugly anyway 😉

screenshot of the iPoster interactive system showing where a pdf can be uploaded.

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Dr. Teomara (Teya) Rutherford @drteyar.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Another plea to please just make a regular poster for #AERA25. Walk the walk with accessibility even if @aeraedresearch.bsky.social is not. Avoid the ableist iPoster format and upload a regular pdf so multiple people can see from a distance and no one has to touch your poster--no scrolling!

A screenshot of the AERA iPoster format showing that if you scroll past the templates you are able to choose to upload your own pdf

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Dr. Teomara (Teya) Rutherford @drteyar.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

The iPoster format for #AERA25 is terrible and gross. It is very difficult to use in person for anyone with vision or mobility issues and it also encourages germy spread. PSA: Upload a pdf of a normal poster that doesn't require user interaction to allow access to your work by all attendees.

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Dr. Teomara (Teya) Rutherford @drteyar.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

As a grad student, getting a spot to attend one of these lunches was a highlight of my conference. It's surreal to be on the other side! I hope that I can facilitate some fun lunch conversations with the up and coming Mot researchers who join. 💞

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Dr. Teomara (Teya) Rutherford @drteyar.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

We have heaps of data on elementary students' career desires provided in open-ended surveys. There are always some who aren't keen to provide actual careers, and that's fine. A few favorites from the current batch: --shrek worshipper --dodo butt --a potato

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Dr. Teomara (Teya) Rutherford @drteyar.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Windows updated and now the text when I hover is twice as large. Is this an AI guessing how old I am?

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Dr. Teomara (Teya) Rutherford @drteyar.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Happy to share my problem sets if you message me.

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Dr. Teomara (Teya) Rutherford @drteyar.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Have they thought of banding together and providing requests for a reasonable working environment? 😊

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Dr. Teomara (Teya) Rutherford @drteyar.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

But then you do the bulk of the work (all the reviews) for potentially no compensation (at least that's what happened with IES).

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Dr. Teomara (Teya) Rutherford @drteyar.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

In exit interviews almost all Ts noted they now used ChatGPT outside of the study, using prompting methods they learned in study sessions They also noted being more attuned to student interests and including them in lessons Wanted more PD where they could see successful use cases from other Ts (4/4)

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Dr. Teomara (Teya) Rutherford @drteyar.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

We also analyzed lesson creation process Some teachers were hesitant to use ChatGPT; only 1/8 had used it before All found it useful, but were surprised at some of its limitations Ts appreciated coaching to learn about prompting Ts wished that it created more finished products (images useless) (3/4)

Example board game images created by ChatGPT. They are only partial images and have nonsense words.

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Dr. Teomara (Teya) Rutherford @drteyar.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

We examined how creating mot-supportive lessons w ChatGPT would improve Ts mot-supporting practices, Ss emotions, motivation, & engagement Found Ts used more relevance messages, non-standard examples, and gave more specific feedback Ss were less bored and used more positive words about lesson (2/4)

Theory of change for the study. GPT Lessons and Process feed increased teacher knowledge of student interests and creation of engaging/relatable lessons. Increased knowledge supports better T/S relationships and teachers making more connections with self, students, and math. Lessons support use of non-standard examples. Better relationships supports improved feedback and through this, stronger competence beliefs. More connections and use of non-standard examples supports increased student value for math. All inform more positive emotions in math for students.

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Dr. Teomara (Teya) Rutherford @drteyar.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

New OA Publication! Our team worked with elem. teachers to use ChatGPT to enhance their mathematics lessons based on students’ interests. It was a team effort (researchers and teachers) and I’m proud of the result #MathEd #GenAI #EdTech #EdPsych doi.org/10.1016/j.ca... (1/4)

Screen shot of article title page. Article is titled "I just think it is the way of the future": Teachers' use of ChatGPT to develop motivationally-supportive math lessons

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Dr. Teomara (Teya) Rutherford @drteyar.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

This year I created a little research "course" for my lab. Wk 2 was Why We Ask The Qs We Do. In this wk, we all completed a little epistemology quiz. Lower is more constructivist, higher more positivist (names redacted). Then, we asked "I wonder" Qs and discussed how our Qs related to our beliefs.

Lab members' epistemology "score" on a number line from zero (constructivist) to 15 (positivist). Scores range from two to nine. Names are redacted.

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Dr. Teomara (Teya) Rutherford @drteyar.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

I just got one too. So sad. All the sunk cost from both proposers and reviewers in addition to the harm to our students from missing out on the innovations and research.

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Quantitude the Podcast @quantitude.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

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Dr. Teomara (Teya) Rutherford @drteyar.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Every week I track my hours across categories of my work (color coded into broad service, research, teaching buckets). This is the graph for fall 2024 and my distribution of hours across the week (I prefer to work fewer hours 7 days vs more M-F). Tracking helps me stay focused & make choices.

Pie chart of "Fall 2024 Work Distribution." Green represents research and takes up nearly 40% of pie, with most in writing and lab management. Yellow is teaching/mentoring and is 29%, roughly evenly split between the two. Service is blue and is 22%, with more in service to the field.
PD, Admin, Networking are other categories w/small percents.

A graph of "Fall 2024 Daily Hours Distribution." A purple line trends downward from Monday through Saturday, with a slight uptick on Sunday. Most hours worked (around 7) Monday and Wednesday.

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danah boyd @zephoria.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

New CDC data is out on youth mental health. Unsurprisingly, the biggest issues have nothing to do with social media. If only we could actually convince policymakers to invest in the actual problems that youth face. For a great topline look at the new data, see: www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

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Why the latest CDC teen mental health report is a politically inconvenient bombshell for crusading California pols

The report reveals that teens’ use of social media is more complicated than the simplistic campaigns to restrict access recognize.

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Dr. Teomara (Teya) Rutherford @drteyar.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Did they turn on the "randomize response choices" option in their survey tool?

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Dr. Teomara (Teya) Rutherford @drteyar.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Grades are submitted and semester service is winding down. Had a fantastic fall with 18 students working with our lab. I enjoy finding little gifts for them to thank them for awesome work. This year found these positive tomatoes to remind them of all the "tomoji" surveys they administered!

18 red and white gift bags lined up on a table ready for distributing. Each has different color tissue paper within. In front of the bags is an example of their contents: little penguin stickers and a plush tomato holding a sign.

A close up of the "positive tomato." It's a red crochet plush tomato a few inches tall holding a sign that says "Life was all out of lemons, so here's a tomato instead."

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Dr. Teomara (Teya) Rutherford @drteyar.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Is there a line then that is not overly excessive giving that would put pressure on the journals but still not slow our review system to a crawl in a way that hurts our jr colleagues especially? I'm not sure there is, so what do we do? What do you expect of Carlton here?

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Dr. Teomara (Teya) Rutherford @drteyar.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Our puppy is only allowed on the furniture if she is on top of a blanket and it amuses us to only put black and white blankets on the sofas so that she will be camouflaged.

A picture of a small black and white Havanese dog curled up asleep on a black and white cow-patterned blanket

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Mandy Jansen @mandymathed.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Winter sunset @drteyar.bsky.social’s house!

Orange sunset and trees in the silhouette

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Dr. Teomara (Teya) Rutherford @drteyar.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Most are in presentations from 6+ months ago, but if I come across them, I'll share 😊

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Dr. Teomara (Teya) Rutherford @drteyar.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

I use our lab logo on some presentations and I used GenAI to help design it a couple of years ago. Otherwise, I've used GenAI for some decent custom accent images. Logo is a young "blue hen"--I study kids and technology

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Dr. Teomara (Teya) Rutherford @drteyar.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

I tried to enjoy the game and not let it bring me back to my 17-year-old self having ALL her Magic cards (including valuable ones, of course!) stolen out of the back of my car. They showed up a week later for sale at a local comic store and there was zero I could do about it.

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Dr. Teomara (Teya) Rutherford @drteyar.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Final day Games for Learning class yesterday and we had a starter deck Magic:The Gathering tournament We discussed how game mechanics from M:TG are seen in many card and board games since & some learning goals for M:TG itself Love teaching this class & playing & talking games w/such smart students!

A gray university classroom table with an in-progress Magic: The Gathering game atop. One deck is red/green and the other is white/blue. Both have a handful of tapped land and creatures. Red/Green is currently attacking. A life counter is partially visible on a phone, displaying the white/blue deck's owner has 10 life.

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Dr. Teomara (Teya) Rutherford @drteyar.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

This is for a journal article, but for NSF, it will be pending until a final decision. If you are successful, you will receive "questions" from the PO four to six months after submitting. You can look up when your PO is running panels to give you some idea too.

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Dr. Teomara (Teya) Rutherford @drteyar.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Three words that can make my heart pound

A screenshot of a journal status update portal showing a manuscript submitted September 21 with a status date of December 3 and a current status of "Required Reviews Completed"

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