AERA 2018: New York, NY
AERA 2018 was a wonderful conference with many memory-making moments in New York City! Here is a slideshow with photos from the annual meeting:You can see the full set of photos here. You can also download the Motivation in Education 2018 SIG Business Meeting slideshow here. Overview of the AERA MotSIG Program – Hadley Solomon has put together a quick guide to all of the SIG-sponsored AERA sessions: https://goo.gl/Vi1WyP (also attached). We hope you will add these special SIG events to your Saturday calendar. a. Saturday, 2:15-3:45 p.m.: Invited Session – “Challenging Motivation Theories: Invited Perspectives of Early Career Researchers” – Four highly productive early career scholars will share what they find most exciting and challenging about the current state of motivation research (Fani Lauermann, DeLeon Gray, Elizabeth Canning, and Carlton Fong). Lisa Linnenbrink-Garcia will serve as discussant and will guide the audience and panelists in a discussion about where our field is heading. Location: Millennium Broadway New York Times Square, Room 4.11. Note that this session is concurrent with Reinhard Pekrun’s Div. C Scribner award address, which will likely be video-recorded. b. Saturday, 4:05-6:05 p.m.: Commemorative Session – “Culture, Context, and Meaning: Honoring Marty Maehr’s Contributions to the Field of Achievement Motivation”– This commemoration session brings together Marty Maehr’s students and colleagues to share and discuss his forward theoretical thinking and empirical work on the roles of culture, context, and meaning-making in motivation in educational settings. Presenters include Eric Anderman, Tim Urdan, Akane Zusho, Avi Kaplan, Dennis McInerney, and Julianne Turner. Location: Millennium Broadway New York Times Square, Room 5.08. c. Saturday, 6:30-7:55 p.m.: SIG Business Meeting and Student Awards – Our annual business meeting, which precedes the social event, will be held from 6:15-7:45 p.m.(Saturday, April 14) at the Marriott Marquis hotel At this meeting, we will announce our student award winners, notable SIG activities and initiatives, and our newly-elected SIG leaders. Allan Wigfield will also offer a brief tribute to Marty Covington. If you have something to announce that would be of interest to the SIG (e.g., book, conference, other), please let me know, so that we can work that into our business meeting. ALL ARE WELCOME and encouraged to attend. This year the SIG will be forgoing catering at the SIG business meeting due to high costs in New York. Please feel free to bring a snack. Location: Marriott Marquis Hotel, Seventh Floor, Astor Ballroom (a 285-foot walk to Bowlmor Times Square, where we’ll head following).
AERA Happy Hour for Early Career SIG Members – Thanks to so many of you early career members for participating in our virtual get-togethers this week and last! We really appreciate all of the suggestions and ideas you shared. In the spirit of creating as many opportunities as possible for early career SIG members to meet and get to know one another, we’ve organized an informal happy hour in New York from 5:00-6:30 pm on Sunday, April 15 at Connolly’s Pub and Restaurant, 121 W 45th St, (212-597-5126). Connolly’s is just a four-minute walk from the Millennium Broadway Hotel, which hopefully makes it a convenient location for many of you. Please feel free to stop for as much (or as little) time as you’d like. We look forward to hopefully seeing many of you there! Emily Rosenzweig and Alison Koenka, Early Career Committee Co-Chairs
MotSIG “Conversation with a Motivation Researcher” NYC Event –We’re pleased to announce that all graduate students who expressed interest in attending a “Conversation with a Motivation Researcher” event in New York City will be able to participate. Groups will range from 4-6 students per researcher, and information regarding your researcher, group members, and location will be sent to you individually via email this week. Please note that the matching process gave priority to students who have not previously participated in the event. The pool of new attendees were selected in a random order and matched with their first choice. Returning attendees were then selected randomly and matched. As a result, students returning to the event may have been placed with their second or third choice. We would like to thank this year’s hosts: Kenn Barron, Jennifer Fredericks, Chris Hulleman, Erika Patall, Johnmarshall Reeve, Ann Renninger, and David Yeager. Our students are lucky! ~ Carly Champagne and Peter McPartlan, Grad Committee Co-Chairs

AERA 2018 Motivation SIG Schedule: View the 2018 SIG conference program
SIG Business Meeting and Student Awards – Our annual business meeting, which precedes the social event, will be held from 6:15-7:45 p.m. (Saturday, April 14) at the Marriott Marquis hotel (a 285-foot walk to Bowlmor Times Square). Despite its boring name, our business meeting is actually a place to acknowledge our student members, our SIG activities, our newly-elected SIG leaders, and the activities of our SIG members. To that end, if you have something to announce that would be of interest to the SIG (e.g., book, conference, other), please let me know, so that we can work that into our business meeting. ALL ARE WELCOME and encouraged to attend.
Grad Student AERA News from Carly Champagne and Peter McPartlan (Grad Committee Co-Chairs) – “Conversation with a Motivation Researcher” Event – Dear SIG Graduate Students – We are grateful to have the following senior researchers hosting small-group “conversations” with graduate students over breakfast or lunch in NYC: Jennifer Fredericks, Erika Patall, David Yeager, Chris Hulleman, Johnmarshall Reeve, Ann Renninger, and Kenn Barron. We hope you will enter your name for one of these highly sought-after events. To sign up, complete this survey by ranking your preferences by researcher, date, and time: https://docs.google.com/forms/
NEW GRAD STUDENTS: First time going to AERA? –Find out what to know before you go! Next week our graduate student team will be hosting two “New-to-AERA Online Meetups” for students who are attending for the first time. We can help you (a) get your questions answered, (b) find out how our students get the most out of their experience, and (c) connect with students you’re likely to see in New York. If you’re interested, please provide your name and email information to attend a pre-AERA online meetup on either April 9th or April 11th here: https://goo.gl/eN579Q. We will contact you with a meeting link and details soon.
AERA 2017: San Antonio, TX
Thanks to all for a great 2017 AERA meeting in San Antonio, Texas! View the 2017 Business Meeting Presentation. This includes information about AERA submission/acceptance rates, financial report, graduate student committee report, and more. Offer your feedback or suggestion for our SIG on this one-item form: https://goo.gl/forms/5OMj6kkwWRRVfOnH2. View a repository of AERA MotSIG photos from San Antonio. You can even add your own.


AERA 2016: Washington, DC
Thank you for a great 2016 AERA Conference in Washington, DC. Special thanks to Hefer Bembenutty for sharing great pics from our 2016 Motivation SIG Business Meeting and Social.- View 2016 SIG conference program
- Congratulations to 2016 Paul R. Pintrich Memorial Award Winner Stacy Priniski, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- List of 2016 Student Travel Award Winners
- Business Meeting Agenda
- Program Chair Report
- Graduate Student Committee Report