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Sievers, J., Jalbert, M., Goldstein, M., & Yan, V. X. (2026). What is success? Understanding and addressing evaluation challenges faced by transdisciplinary teams when developing interventions. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-026-07708-9
Sievers, J., Muenks, K. & Goldstein, M. (2026). How will I be graded? The past, present, and future of research on grading policies and student motivation in secondary and postsecondary education. Educational Psychologist. https://doi.org/10.1080/00461520.2026.2636491
Muenks, K., Sievers, J., Kroeper, K., & Canning, E. (2024). Exploring effects of mixed mindset messages from science, technology, engineering, and mathematics instructors. Motivation Science. https://doi.org/10.1037/mot0000381
Sievers, J., Mata, R. A., Cawthon, S. W., Vielma, A. G., Yan, Y., Lama, D., Ge, E., Ramesh, G., & Aldaco, S. (2024). “Take a deep breath and re-center the student’s perspective”: Partnering instructors and disabled students for accessible teaching. Teaching of Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1177/00986283241269435
Sievers, J. (2022). “Syllabus for first-year seminar (FYS) – Getting schooled: The promises and problems of college in America.” Syllabus 11(1).
Sievers, J. (2021). “Writing between the lines: Teaching digital reading with social annotation in an introductory literature course.” Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture 21(3): 427-453.
My current research interests focus on understanding instructor beliefs and practices that support motivation and persistence across difficulties, particularly in postsecondary classrooms. Recently, my research has also focused on pedagogies in teaching literature and writing, as well as beliefs and rhetorics that shape college teaching.
Before I turned to educational research, I was an American literature and composition studies scholar. This previous work focused on early American literature, especially the religious literatures of early modern Protestant communities, and has been published in Early American Literature, the New England Quarterly, The William and Mary Quarterly, and Literature Compass.
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