Purdue graduate student Temitope Adeoye receives SCIPIE Award
Temitope Adeoye, a graduate student in the College of Education at Purdue University, has been awarded the Scholarly Consortium for Innovative Psychology in Education (SCIPIE) Graduate Student Poster Award 2021 for her presentation, Examining Students’ Gendered and Ethnicity-Relevant Motivations While on Academic Probation.
SCIPIE is a professional organization devoted to maintaining a center for innovation in the psychological study of learning. The focus for the 2021 conference covers questions of what constitutes equitable educational outcomes in the face of major social upheavals, economic crises, and public health crises. Accordingly, the conference extended SCIPIE’s recent focus on critical perspectives to promote conversations of how educational psychologists can contribute to these current challenges.
In Adeoye’s dissertation study, chaired by Dr. Toni K. Rogat, she investigated how undergraduate students on academic probation negotiate their STEM identities and motivations to successfully return to good academic standing.
“I examine these negotiation processes within STEM disciplinary norms and within students’ gendered and racialized experiences,” explains Adeoye. “I use semi-structured interviews to elicit students’ changing identities, expectancies for success, values, and costs.”
Adeoye’s preliminary findings suggest that despite racial adversity, students decided to remain in STEM due to their communal motivations to support their immediate and global communities.
Adeoye was born and raised in Illinois to two Nigerian immigrants and is the second of four children. Following her interest in the human mind and how individuals learn, she obtained a BS in Psychology from Morgan State University in Baltimore, MD. Her research focuses on examining the quality of student motivation, student engagement, collaborative groupwork, and disciplinary belonging. In addition to her research, Adeoye is a graduate assistant in Purdue’s Academic Success Center and serves as Site Director for the Heads Up Tutoring and Life Skills Program in Lafayette.
In her free time, she likes to listen to music, binge watch shows, spend time with friends and family, play volleyball, travel, and eat tasty food. After completing her PhD in summer 2022, Adeoye plans to visit friends and family, and finally get some guilt-free sleep!
Regarding her professional life beyond graduation, Adeoye says, “I hope to be starting my employment at an institution that values my passion for using disciplinary practices to challenge the systemic barriers that minoritized students too often face. Ideally, this would be in collaboration with colleagues using evidenced-based practices to create equitable learning environments for diverse student groups.”
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Source: Temitope Adeoye, adeoye@purdue.edu
Writer: Katie Cockerill, kcockeri@purdue.edu