David Feldon
@dffeldon.bsky.social
Professor of Learning Sciences/Ed Psych studying learning, motivation, and assessment in postsecondary education. Mixed methodologist, editor of Instructional Science, author of Mixed Methods for Psychological Measurement, Fulbright Scholar
The USU College of Education and Human Services is hiring 1 postdoctoral fellow to participate in a 2-year training funded by NSF. Successful completion of the postdoctoral training yields an automatic tenure-line faculty offer at USU.
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Faculty Job Opportunities | CEHS
Find all the open faculty positions within the Emma Eccles Jones College of Education and Human Services at Utah State University.
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August 27, 2025 at 3:48 AM
The USU College of Education and Human Services is hiring 1 postdoctoral fellow to participate in a 2-year training funded by NSF. Successful completion of the postdoctoral training yields an automatic tenure-line faculty offer at USU.
cehs.usu.edu/faculty-empl...
cehs.usu.edu/faculty-empl...
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New publication out today! @dffeldon.bsky.social, @anniewoff.bsky.social, Kaylee Litson, and I developed and tested a brief intervention to transfer orientation/advising that significantly increases transfer students' beliefs about the value of earning PhDs in CS doi.org/10.1007/s111...
Building Transfer Student Interest in Computer Science PhDs: Examining an Advising Intervention Using a Staged Innovation Design - Research in Higher Education
Community college transfer students represent a diverse and talented group to recruit to PhD and other graduate programs. Yet, little is known about practical strategies to support community college t...
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May 15, 2025 at 12:22 PM
New publication out today! @dffeldon.bsky.social, @anniewoff.bsky.social, Kaylee Litson, and I developed and tested a brief intervention to transfer orientation/advising that significantly increases transfer students' beliefs about the value of earning PhDs in CS doi.org/10.1007/s111...
Looking forward to sharing some of my work on #CognitiveLoadTheory and #Motivation at the University of New South Wales tomorrow! Fun for the whole (academic) family!
March 17, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Looking forward to sharing some of my work on #CognitiveLoadTheory and #Motivation at the University of New South Wales tomorrow! Fun for the whole (academic) family!
Having a blast roaming Australia as a Fulbright scholar. Aussie colleagues, drop me a line if you’d like to connect!
February 28, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Having a blast roaming Australia as a Fulbright scholar. Aussie colleagues, drop me a line if you’d like to connect!
@utahstate.bsky.social is hiring 3 postdocs with interdisciplinary research agendas related to access and accessibility in STEM.
Postdocs who meet performance expectations over two years will receive tenure-track assistant professorships.
Learn more at careers-usu.icims.com/jobs/8708/job
Postdocs who meet performance expectations over two years will receive tenure-track assistant professorships.
Learn more at careers-usu.icims.com/jobs/8708/job
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January 11, 2025 at 11:34 PM
@utahstate.bsky.social is hiring 3 postdocs with interdisciplinary research agendas related to access and accessibility in STEM.
Postdocs who meet performance expectations over two years will receive tenure-track assistant professorships.
Learn more at careers-usu.icims.com/jobs/8708/job
Postdocs who meet performance expectations over two years will receive tenure-track assistant professorships.
Learn more at careers-usu.icims.com/jobs/8708/job
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Hey corporate media,
Thou shalt not spend thousands of hours on one CEO’s shooting and only one hour on a classroom of children.
Thou shalt not spend thousands of hours on one CEO’s shooting and only one hour on a classroom of children.
December 16, 2024 at 10:57 PM
Hey corporate media,
Thou shalt not spend thousands of hours on one CEO’s shooting and only one hour on a classroom of children.
Thou shalt not spend thousands of hours on one CEO’s shooting and only one hour on a classroom of children.
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Get ready for this!
December 2, 2024 at 5:23 PM
Get ready for this!
“I see from your article title that I disagree with your findings/implications. I found titles of other articles that seem to support my view. What do you say to that?”
“Ummm. Have you read any of the articles?”
“No. Why would I do that? Just explain it to me 180 characters at a time.”
“Ummm. Have you read any of the articles?”
“No. Why would I do that? Just explain it to me 180 characters at a time.”
December 14, 2024 at 6:37 AM
“I see from your article title that I disagree with your findings/implications. I found titles of other articles that seem to support my view. What do you say to that?”
“Ummm. Have you read any of the articles?”
“No. Why would I do that? Just explain it to me 180 characters at a time.”
“Ummm. Have you read any of the articles?”
“No. Why would I do that? Just explain it to me 180 characters at a time.”
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Another deeply troubling data point. The magnitude of the challenges facing our educational systems can hardly be overstated.
The just-released TIMSS data put the United States' ongoing academic-recovery failures in an unflattering international context.
#EduSky #EconSky
www.the74million.org/article/four...
#EduSky #EconSky
www.the74million.org/article/four...
Four Insights into U.S. Students’ Drop in Math & Science on International Test
Tuesday’s release of TIMSS scores shows that American students fell behind their international peers during the pandemic.
www.the74million.org
December 4, 2024 at 2:22 PM
Another deeply troubling data point. The magnitude of the challenges facing our educational systems can hardly be overstated.
True for social sciences as well!
December 4, 2024 at 3:08 PM
True for social sciences as well!
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🚨 New Pub Alert 🚨
We surface how PhD Candidates of Color understood and responded to the commodification of their racial identities through both their socialization for the job market and their experiences applying for tenure track faculty jobs at HWIs. Check it out!
muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
We surface how PhD Candidates of Color understood and responded to the commodification of their racial identities through both their socialization for the job market and their experiences applying for tenure track faculty jobs at HWIs. Check it out!
muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
November 29, 2024 at 5:41 PM
🚨 New Pub Alert 🚨
We surface how PhD Candidates of Color understood and responded to the commodification of their racial identities through both their socialization for the job market and their experiences applying for tenure track faculty jobs at HWIs. Check it out!
muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
We surface how PhD Candidates of Color understood and responded to the commodification of their racial identities through both their socialization for the job market and their experiences applying for tenure track faculty jobs at HWIs. Check it out!
muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
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As SCOTUS prepares to decide whether Tennessee is violating the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment by prohibiting healthcare for trans adolescents, we thought this would be a great time to re-announce: Trans kids – like all kids- thrive when they get the healthcare they need!
November 28, 2024 at 1:24 AM
As SCOTUS prepares to decide whether Tennessee is violating the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment by prohibiting healthcare for trans adolescents, we thought this would be a great time to re-announce: Trans kids – like all kids- thrive when they get the healthcare they need!
Across social sciences, almost anyone who claims to have affirmatively proved something is brandishing their hubris, but in non-LS spaces people tend to use theories as causal accounts that are durable across spaces. The dedication to local causality in LS makes “theory” a fairly tenuous concept.
The “learning science” isn’t a thing. The Learning Sciences are a collection of theories, methods, and practices aimed at understanding learning as it happens in context. Anyone that tells you they’ve “proved” something with learning science is full of shit.
November 24, 2024 at 6:02 PM
Across social sciences, almost anyone who claims to have affirmatively proved something is brandishing their hubris, but in non-LS spaces people tend to use theories as causal accounts that are durable across spaces. The dedication to local causality in LS makes “theory” a fairly tenuous concept.
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My one constructive criticism on BlueSky, as a community: we need to “like” less and “retweet” more. In the absence of an algorithm, that’s the way we find each other and reward good content.
November 24, 2024 at 2:08 PM
My one constructive criticism on BlueSky, as a community: we need to “like” less and “retweet” more. In the absence of an algorithm, that’s the way we find each other and reward good content.
Has anyone else had this experience? A discussant in a session where I presented made some general comments and then turned to individual papers, but announced that he would only give formative comments and because my talk was on something already published, he would not talk about it. Thoughts?
November 22, 2024 at 3:05 AM
Has anyone else had this experience? A discussant in a session where I presented made some general comments and then turned to individual papers, but announced that he would only give formative comments and because my talk was on something already published, he would not talk about it. Thoughts?
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When I first came out as trans, I knew that I couldn't leave the house any longer than my bladder would allow. Because I was afraid of using a public restroom. So often, I just didn't leave home.
And that's the point of creating this kind of fear.
And that's the point of creating this kind of fear.
November 20, 2024 at 11:21 PM
When I first came out as trans, I knew that I couldn't leave the house any longer than my bladder would allow. Because I was afraid of using a public restroom. So often, I just didn't leave home.
And that's the point of creating this kind of fear.
And that's the point of creating this kind of fear.
Very excited to present Moderating Measurement Models with Mixed Methods: Situating Measurement in Relational Contexts at ASHE24! Join us in Marquette V to talk about a new QuantCrit approach to measurement on Thursday at 1pm CT!
November 20, 2024 at 9:58 AM
Very excited to present Moderating Measurement Models with Mixed Methods: Situating Measurement in Relational Contexts at ASHE24! Join us in Marquette V to talk about a new QuantCrit approach to measurement on Thursday at 1pm CT!
Is it bad that my biggest political hope at the moment is that the first cabinet meeting of the incoming administration plays out like the final scene of The Stand by Stephen King?
November 20, 2024 at 9:53 AM
Is it bad that my biggest political hope at the moment is that the first cabinet meeting of the incoming administration plays out like the final scene of The Stand by Stephen King?
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Okay, this is a BIG DEAL. A whole special issue on evidencing, critiquing, and expanding the science of reading! Kudos to guest editors @courtneyhattan.bsky.social & @kendeou.bsky.social - check out their amazing intro to the SI!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
#PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
#PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky
Expanding the science of reading: contributions from educational psychology
The science of reading consists of a large, evolving, and impressive body of evidence about how humans learn to read and how reading should be taught. This body of evidence has accumulated via dive...
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November 19, 2024 at 12:56 PM
Okay, this is a BIG DEAL. A whole special issue on evidencing, critiquing, and expanding the science of reading! Kudos to guest editors @courtneyhattan.bsky.social & @kendeou.bsky.social - check out their amazing intro to the SI!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
#PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
#PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky
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As an Associate Dean for Research, I don't think people are prepared for how dramatically the funding landscape is going to change with the new administration. Some things I've been thinking about:
November 19, 2024 at 10:58 PM
As an Associate Dean for Research, I don't think people are prepared for how dramatically the funding landscape is going to change with the new administration. Some things I've been thinking about:
In class this term, we’ve been dissecting the arguments of longstanding debates in the learning sciences/ed psych. It’s fascinating and depressing how 1) despite the separate topics, it’s really the same argument playing out over and over again and 2) it’s always about values more than evidence.
November 19, 2024 at 12:54 PM
In class this term, we’ve been dissecting the arguments of longstanding debates in the learning sciences/ed psych. It’s fascinating and depressing how 1) despite the separate topics, it’s really the same argument playing out over and over again and 2) it’s always about values more than evidence.
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Since I'm back here now... share this @jqtsie.bsky.social special issue call with your networks! I'm co-editing!
"Critical Approaches to Queering STEM Education"
Abstracts due: May 30, 2025
Full call: QR code/in the replies
"Critical Approaches to Queering STEM Education"
Abstracts due: May 30, 2025
Full call: QR code/in the replies
November 17, 2024 at 9:32 PM
Since I'm back here now... share this @jqtsie.bsky.social special issue call with your networks! I'm co-editing!
"Critical Approaches to Queering STEM Education"
Abstracts due: May 30, 2025
Full call: QR code/in the replies
"Critical Approaches to Queering STEM Education"
Abstracts due: May 30, 2025
Full call: QR code/in the replies
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NSF’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program application module is open!!! Those in STEM Education, the branches in education and discipline-based education research are strongly encouraged to submit applications due October 18, 2024. Visit www.nsfgrfp.org to learn more.
Home - NSF Graduate Research Fellowships Program (GRFP)
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August 8, 2024 at 3:14 PM
NSF’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program application module is open!!! Those in STEM Education, the branches in education and discipline-based education research are strongly encouraged to submit applications due October 18, 2024. Visit www.nsfgrfp.org to learn more.
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Did you know the Division 15 (Educational Psychology) of the American Psychological Association has a (free!) podcast where yours truly interviews authors about their fantastic articles & ideas? It's true! Check out all the episodes here & on your favorite podcast app: apadiv15.org/podcast-seri...
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November 17, 2024 at 2:48 PM
Did you know the Division 15 (Educational Psychology) of the American Psychological Association has a (free!) podcast where yours truly interviews authors about their fantastic articles & ideas? It's true! Check out all the episodes here & on your favorite podcast app: apadiv15.org/podcast-seri...