Thursday, December 15, 2005
AERA Division C Graduate Research Excellence Award
Call for Application Reminder
2006 Graduate Student Research Excellence Award
by Thomas G. Reio, Jr. and Sue Lasky, Graduate Student Research Excellence Award Committee Chair and Co-Chair
In the summer newsletter, we wrote to inform you about the Division C Graduate Research Excellence Award. This prestigious award is presented for the best paper by a graduate or recent graduate student accepted for presentation at the AERA 2006 annual meeting in San Francisco. Please let this newsletter article serve as a reminder that the time for participating in the award competition is upon us.
After notification of your paper’s acceptance for the upcoming AERA conference, you are eligible for submitting your paper to the graduate research excellence award committee. The research must have been conducted while still a graduate student during 2004 or 2005. In the case of the co-authored paper, the candidate also is required be the primary researcher and first author. The deadline for submission of the application is January 31, 2006. Only a hard copy of the application can be accepted; thus, please do not submit your work via e-mail or by fax. Your paper must be written in APA V style and no more than 30 pages, including text, references, appendices, tables and figures. Papers exceeding this length or not meeting the other guidelines cannot be considered for the award. The paper selection criteria will include: (1) new knowledge contribution to the field, (2) significance of the problem/question, (3) theoretical and/or practical importance of the research findings, (4) originality, (5) quality of the research design, (6) clarity of presentation, (7) innovative implications and directions for future research, (8) adequate and relevant references, and (9) overall future promise of the researcher.
The application must include: four hard copies of the paper; a cover sheet with the paper’s title; the author's name, address, phone, and email; the name, address, phone, and email of the author's research advisor/mentor; a short letter from the author's research advisor/mentor acknowledging that the author was the primary researcher, and that the student’s research was conducted during 2004 or 2005; and a photocopy of the AERA Division C acceptance letter for the April 2006 annual meeting in San Francisco.
Please send materials to:
Thomas G. Reio, Jr., Ph.D., Chair
AERA Graduate Research Excellence Award Committee
331 Education Building
University of Louisville
Louisville, KY 40292
If there are any questions, please feel free to contact Dr. Thomas G. Reio, Jr. at (502) 852-0639 or by e-mail at thomas.reio@louisville.edu.
Thank you very much for your interest.
Thomas G. Reio, Jr., Ph.D.
Leadership, Foundations, and Human Resource Education
College of Education and Human Development
University of Louisville
Louisville, KY 40292
(502) 852-0639 Work
(502) 852-4563 FAX
thomas.reio@louisville.edu
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