VP Announcements - November 2012 

1. AERA Annual Conference 2013 Submissions. The Division H Program
Committee has completed it's work selecting proposals for the 2013 annual
meeting and submitting proposed sessions to AERA. Proposal submitters will
be notified of acceptances and rejections this month. Thank you to everyone
who submitted a proposal. If you have questions, contact Toni Stroter,
Program Chair (a-stroter@uiowa.edu). As a reminder, the annual conference
will be April  27 (Saturday) to May 1 (Wednesday) in San Francisco.

2. Graduate Student Upcoming Activities

2a. Graduate Student (GS) Junior Representative Applications. Each AERA
division, including Division H, appoints a representative to AERA's
Graduate Student Council (GSC). This person, called the Senior GS Rep,
attends GSC meetings and works on AERA-wide GS projects. This person also
coordinates GS activities for Division H: organizes sessions at the annual
conference (GS Orientation and Research Roundtables, Fireside Chat, GS
Poster Session),  sets up other activities at the annual meeting (GS
Reception, Coffee Mentoring), and is responsible for communication with
other graduate students throughout the year (Facebook, discussion groups,
outreach, etc.) and promoting Division H membership.

The Senior Rep is assisted by a Junior Rep, who becomes the Senior Rep the
following year. The GS Rep is thus a 2-year commitment (one as Junior Rep
and one as Senior Rep), but entails attending 3 annual AERA
conferences--the first just before becoming Junior Rep, the second as
Junior Rep, and the third as Senior Rep. Each Rep (Junior Rep-elect,
Junior Rep, and Senior Rep) receives $700 to support attendance at the
annual conference. Therefore, each Rep is supported for three successive
annual conferences.

Each year Division H selects a new Junior GS Rep-elect to fill the
position vacated when the current Junior Rep moves to the Senior Rep
position.  We will issue the call for applications for Junior GS Rep in
December. Applications will be due in February. Our current Senior Rep is
Marisa delCampo, University of Connecticut marisa.a.delcampo@gmail.com).
Our current Junior Rep is Ruhan Circi, University of Colorado, Boulder
(ruhan.circi@colorado.edu).

This is a wonderful opportunity for graduate students to network and
provide service to the division and to AERA as a whole. Please encourage
graduate students to apply.

2b. Research Roundtables. Each year Division H provides opportunities for
graduate students to present their work in progress and get feedback
through research roundtables conducted as part of the Graduate Student
Orientation Session the first day of the annual meeting. We will issue a
call for submissions in December. Please note that this call is separate
from the regular AERA proposal submission process and gives graduate
students an addtional opportunity to share their work at the annual
conference.

We will also need senior members of Dvision H to serve as proposal
reviewers and roundtable facilitators and discussants. Please contact me
(judy@bctonline.com) or our current GS Senior Rep (Marisa delCampo,
marisa.a.delcampo@gmail.com) if you are willing to help. Thanks.

2c. $50 Support for Graduate Students. At last year's annual conference,
Division H offered $50 support for any graduate student member of Division
H who presented a paper at any session for any division or SIG, including
our GS Research Roundtables and GS Poster Session. About 20 GS applied for
this support. We intend to continue doing this in 2013 in San Francisco. We
will remind everyone how this works as we get closer to the conference.

2d. Canpus Liaisons. Our Senior and Junior Reps will shortly begin a
renewed effort to establish liaisons at college and university campuses to
make sure GS at their instiutions know about the benefits of being a
Division H member. A number of GS volunteered at the breakfast meeting last
year. Marisa and Ruhan will be contacting you soon. They are also
looking for additional campus liaisons. Please let them know if you are
interested.

3. Publication Awards. Each year Division H gives out publication
awards--best dissertation, evaluation, research summary, training
materials, etc. The call will be issued in December. Winners are announced
at the Business Meeting/Breakfast at the annual conference.

4. Booth Modernization. Division H hosts a booth in the exhibits area at
the annual conference. This booth displays all submissions for the
Publication Awards. After the breakfast meeting, winners are prominently
displayed. We have typically had racks to display hard-copy submissions.
This year our booth committee--Jim Wohlleb (chair, jimwohlleb@gmail.com)
and Dan Bugler (dbugler@wested), with the assistance and  generous monetary
contribution of Glynn Ligon (past Division H VP) are planning to
modernize the booth--submissions viewed electronically (with, perhaps only
the winners in hard-copy), new banners, and a continuous-loop video.
Specifics are still being planned. If you would like to help, please
contact Jim or Dan.

5. Dissertation and Early Career Grants

5a. Jack Kent Cooke Foundation’s Dissertation Fellowship.  This program
awards four Fellowships of up to $25,000 to support advanced doctoral
candidates in a variety of fields, including education and the social
sciences. The application deadline is February 4, 2013. Additional
information is available at http://www.jkcf.org.

5b. AERA Dissertation Grants. AERA offers a variety of dissertation
grants. For additional information go to www.aera.net.

5c. National Academy of Education/University of Michigan Early Career 
Research Grants. This program will award up to 10 grants of $25,000 each to
conduct a research study using the extensive Measures of Effective Teaching
Longitudinal Database.  Eligibility for the grants program is limited to
scholars who received their doctorate after August 31, 2007.
Additional information can be accessed at www.naeducation.org. Com­pleted
applications must be submitted bThe deadline is December, 15 2012, with
funding decisions announced in Janu­ary, 2013.

6. News From AERA 

6a. Bullying Briefs. Our current AERA president, Bill Tierney has set up
three task forces--tenure (a reconsideration and analysis of what should
count toward tenure), non-tenured individuals (extent, conditions, and
recommended policies), and bullying. The bullying task force has completed
a series of briefs that summarize current research on a number of topics.
These are currently out  for review, but will be available soon. The Task
Force for non-tenured individuals has submitted a report to the President.

I'll provide more information about all these initiatives when it is
available.

6b. Standards for Student Assessment. The new Standards are currently out
for final review and approval by sponsoring agencies (including AERA and
APA). The development process has been intensive, including at least two
public review rounds. I'll provide information about the final version when
it is available.

6c.  AERA Centennial. AERA's centennial is 2015-2016. AERA has begun
planning. There will probably be a series of activities including print,
video, and events at the annual conference. Division H is very interested
in the centennial since the origins of AERA lie with research and
evaluation entities in the public schools. If you are interested in helping
Division H prepare materials and events for the centennial please let me
know.

6d. 2012 Brown Lecture. The annual Brown Lecture celebrates the Brown vs.
Board of Education decision in 1954 and illuminates the important role of
research in advancing the understanding of equality and equity in
education. Each year a distinguished scholar notable for producing
significant and sustained research related to equity and equality in
education is invited to give this public lecture in Washington DC. This
year's Brown Lecture was given by Dr. Vanessa Siddle Walker on October 25.
lt was also live-streamed to several other sites. The lecture will be
available soon on the AERA web site.

7. Job Announcements

7a. Associate Dean, West Virginia University. The West Virginia
University, College of Human Resources and Education is looking for an
Associate Dean for Research. The job description is at
<http://hre.wvu.edu/fac_staff/jobs>

7b. Faculty Position through NIE. The Curriculum, Teaching, and Learning
Academic Group is looking for a person with expertise in school-based
assessment, assessment of and for student learning, and assessment
leadership. Contact Christine Lee, CTL@nie.edu.sg. (under "Nonclassified;
Soociate Dean #55"). For more information contact Lynne Schrum at
lynne.schrum@mail.wvu.edu.

8.Call for Submissions, CREA Conference.  The Center for Culturally
Responsive Evaluation and Assessment (CREA) is hosting an inaugura
conference conference, entitled “Repositioning Culture in Evaluation and
Assessment,” on April 21-23, 2013 in Chicago. Proposals are due November 9,
2012. Access the submission management system from the conference website:
http://crea.education.illinois.edu/conference/

VP Announcements - October 2012 
1. Division H Program. The Program Committee met last week to do the major
work on assembling the Division H program for AERA 2013 in San Francisco.
We had a total of 344 submissions (316 papers and 28 symposia), up a
little from last year. (Submissions by section: 91, Section 1, 124, Section
> 2, 95, Section 3, 34, Section 4.) Notification of acceptances and
rejections will be sent the end of October. The program will be available
for review next February.

In order to continue to inform next year's call for proposals, the Program
Committee analyzed submissions for such things as: adequate coverage of
current and emerging issues, how well submissions fit into our current 4
sections, and whose voices are being heard/are there any voices being left
out? We'll report the results when they are ready.

In addition to the sessions created through the submission process, we
will have the Business/Breakfast meeting on Tuesday April 30 (remember that
2013 in San Francisco runs from Saturday, April 27 to Wednesday, May 1),
three graduate student/early career sessions (the Orientation Session,
Graduate Student Poster Session, and Fireside Chat), and three VP invited
sessions.

The three VP sessions are:

Poverty and Education: From Research to Action and Empowerment
(Affirmative Action Committee; Debora Ortloff and Winona Vesey)

Poverty and Performance: International Perspectives on the Relationship of
Socio-Economic Status and Assessment Outcomes (International Committee;
Whitney Bortz and Brucu Kaniskan)

A joint session with the Directors of Research and Evaluation (DRE) and
National Association of Test Directors (NATD)

Thank you to Toni Stroter (Chair), Rosanne Brown (Assistant Chair),
Nyambura Susan Maina (Section 1 Chair), Brett Campbell, Section 2 Chair),
Evelyn Belton-Kocher (Section 3 Chair), Zollie Stevenson (Section 4 Chair),
Marissa del Campo (Senior GS Rep), Winona Vesey (Affirmative Action
liaison), and Whitney Bortz (International Committee liaison).

2. Early Career and Graduate Student Mentorships. Toni Stroter (Committee
Chair) has completed awarding mentorships for 2012. Each awardee receives
up to $1000 to cover expenses. Awards were given to:

2a.  (Early Career) Cheng-Fei Lai, Ph.D. Department of Educational
Methodology, Policy, and Leadership at the University of Oregon and
(Mentor) Jack Monpas-Huber, Ph.D., the Director of Assessmentand Student
Information at Shoreline Public Schools in Shoreline, Washington.

2b. Ipek Ozer, Doctoral Candidate at Kent State University and (Mentor)
Donald Yarbrough, Profession and Director of the Center for Evaluation and
Assessment at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa.

2c. (Early Career) Whitney Wall Brortz, Director of Assessment at Radford
University in Radford, Virginia, and (Mentor) Nina Salcedo Potter, Director
of Assessment and Accreditation at San Diego State Unversity in San Diego,
California.

2d. Vivian Evans, Doctoral Candidate at Jackson State University and
(Mentor) Vickie L. Cartwright, Ph.D., Senior Director of Accountability,
Research, and Assessment at Orange County Public School District in
Orlando, Florida.

2e. Zachary B. Warner, Doctoral Candidate at the University of Albany,
SUNY, and (Mentor) Vickie L. Cartwright, Ph.D., Senior Director of
Accountability, Research, and Assessment at Orange County Public School
District in Orlando, Florida.

3. Division H Officer Nominations. The Nominations Committee (Faith
Connolly) has completed its work. Nominations are:

DIVISION H VICE PRESIDENT (3 YEAR TERM) - 2014-2017

* Vickie Cartwright - vickie.cartwright@ocps.net
* Paul Favaro - paul.favaro@peelsb.com
* Zollie Stevenson - zstevenson06@gmail.com

DIVISION H SECRETARY (2 YEAR TERM) - 2014-2016

* Evelyn Belton-Kocher - evelyn.belton-kocher@spps.org
* Brad McMillen- bmcmillen@wcpss.net
* Shahpar Modarresi - Shahpar_Modarresi@mcpsmd.org

4. Big Issues in Testing Conference: Improving Admissions and Learning in
Higher Education. Buros Center for Testing is sponsoring a conference on
testing issues in higher education, March 28-29th, 2013  -  Lincoln, NE. A
list of presenters and topics can be found at
http://buros.org/big-issues-testing.

5. Job Announcement. The Chief of the Office of Data and Accountability
(ODA),  DC Public Schools (DCPS).  The full position description can be
accessed here:
http://dcps.dc.gov/DCPS/About+DCPS/Career+Opportunities/Support+Our+Schools/View+All+Jobs/Chief,+Data+and+Accountability

6. AERA News 

6a. Volunteer for AERA Committees. If you are interested please send our
in-coming President, Barbara Sneider (president-elect@aera.net) the name of
the candidate, the committee on which the individual is willing to serve,
and a one-page biographical vitae. A description of AERA committees is
available at aera.net.

6b. AERA Deadlines. Get more information about the following at the
aera.net.

Fellows Nominations: October 4, 2012
AERA Award Nominations: October 15, 2012

6c. AERA Event on Filed Amicus Brief, Fisher v. University Of Texas,
Austin. AERA, with co-sponsors American Sociological Association, American
Statistical Association, Association for the Study of Higher Education, Law
and Society Association, and Linguistic Society of America held a  media
briefing to discuss the AERA amicus brief submitted to the Supreme Court on
Fisher v. University of Texas, Austin. The briefing outlined scientific
evidence on the use of race as one factor in the University’s admissions
policy and issues relevant to this critically important higher education
case scheduled for hearing on October 10, 2012

More information is available on the AERA website on the front page and on
the dedicated portal for the case and the AERA et al. at
ttp://www.aera.net/tabid/13333/Default.aspx

7. IES Proposes New Program of Research; Invites Comments. The National
Center for Education Research in the Institute of Education Sciences is
planning a new research program for Fiscal Year 2014, one that will focus
on the application of improvement sciences and continuous improvement
research in education. H'ers should want to know about this exciting new
direction and may want to comment to IES about it. The program description
and request for commentary can be found at:

http://ies.ed.gov/funding/comment_CIRE.asp

VP Announcements - September 2012 
1. Conference Submissions. The 2013 annual meeting is in San Francisco,
Saturday, April 27 - Wednesday, May 1. Proposals are now being reviewed.
Sessions will be created in September and October. Official notification of
acceptances and rejections occurs November 1. Please contact our Program
Committee Chair (a-stroter@uiowa.edu) or Assistant Chair
(rosanne.brown@peelsb.com) if you have questions.

2. Renew Division H Memberships. Rolf Blank (rolfb@ccsso.org) and Colleen
G. Paeplow (cpaeplow@wcpss.net), Co-chairs of the Membership Committeesay:
Hello Division H members! We hope you have had a great summer and your
school year is starting off smoothly.  The Division H Membership committee
would like to remind you to renew your membership for the year (now would be a great time!) 
AND also to forward information about AERA and Division H to people you work with,
colleagues in other locations, and graduate students.  We are working to
maintain and increase our strong membership numbers in Division H this year
and also to reach out to more education researchers that are doing work
with schools and school districts.  We also will appreciate your ideas for
membership outreach! Thanks very much!

3. 2013 Division H Social. The Div H Social Committee has secured a
waterfront restaurant in the shadow of the Bay Bridge for our Tuesday,
April 30 evening social at the annual conference next year in San
Francisco.  Check the Epic Roasthouse website http://www.epicroasthouse.com/ 
for a tantalizing overview of the site, the food and (of course) the views.  
Special thanks to prospector Diana Wilmot, Coordinator of Research and 
Evaluation at Palo Alto Unified.

4. 2013 Division H Booth. Jim Wohlleb (wohllebjamesc@aristotle.net;
jimwohlleb@gmail.com) , Booth Committee Chair, would like to begin early to
ask people to help with the booth next year in San Francisco. As you know,
we display submissions for our publication awards in the exhibits area at
the annual conference. We always need volunteers to set up and tear down
the booth, and to man the booth during the conference. Jim will be
circulating sign-up sheets after the first of the year.

Another thing to think about: Since all submissions are now electronic,
might our booth take on a new look by eliminating paper copies of
submissions? Please get in touch with Jim if you have ideas about this.

5. Division H Promo Video. As a reminder, Joe O'Rielly prepared a video
describing Division H. You can find it at http://www.edtv99.org/video/11155.

6. Amicus Brief. AERA has filed an amicus brief in the Supreme Court case
of the Fisher vs. University of Texas-Austin which involves affirmative
action regarding admissions. The brief, and related documents, can be found
at http://www.aera.net/tabid/13333/Default.aspx. There are a number of
other professional organizations who signed on to the brief. This is an
important case and AERA would like everyone to get involved in
disseminating information via posts on Facebook and tweets on Twitter.

7. Job Announcement:  Director of the School of Education at Virginia
Tech. The position is advertised on the AERA jobs page
(http://careers.aera.net/c/job.cfm?site_id=557&job=10646001). 

VP Announcements - August 2012  
1. Proposal Review Schedule. Thank you for your submissions! The
submission system for the 2013 annual meeting in San Francisco (Saturday,
April 27 - Wednesday, May 1) is now closed. Each proposal will be reviewed
by three people during August and sessions will be created in September
and October. Official notification of acceptances and rejections occurs
November 1.

2. AERA Interim Deputy Executive Director. As you already probably know,
Phoebe Stevenson, who has been Felice Levine's Deputy Executive Director
for many years, has left AERA for a position at George Washington
University. The interim Deputy Excutive Director is Arnita Jones while
AERA seeks a person to fill the position.

3. Paper Repository. Papers from the 2010 and 2011 annual meetings are
available online on the AERA website. Click on "Publications" at the top
of the AERA main page and then on "Online Paper Repository." You must be a
member of AERA to access papers.

4. Division H VP Initiatives. In addition to our regular committee
activities, we are engaged in several additional activities. Please let me
know if you have input on any of the following or would like to suggest
other initiatives that would benefit Div H members.

4a. AERA Centennial. 2016 marks the 100th anniversary of AERA. Div H is
very interested in planning activities surrounding this event since AERA
was founded by directors of research and assessment in schools. Past VPs
Mary Yakimowski, mary.yakimowski@uconn.edu, and Joe O'Reilly,
joreilly@mpsaz.org, will be coordinating our suggestions.

4b. Program Analysis. At the AERA Council meeting in June, there was a
general consensus that it would be useful for divisions and SIGs to
analyze submissions for topics and submitters to make sure we're covering
important topics and ensuring that all relevant voices are being heard.
The Program Committee will undertake this analysis as part of it's regular
session development.

4c. Affirmative Action Committee Name Change. Winona Vesey, chair of the
AA Committee, has suggested Div H consider changing the name of this
committee. At least one other division, Division L, changed the name to
Diversity and Equity to be more descriptive of current activities and to
have broader appeal. Winona is researching the implications of a name
change.

4d. Website. AERA redid it's website; it went online last March. Div H is
in the process of revising old website content and adding content to fit
the templates for divisions.

4e. Local Educator's Program. AERA has a program to provide a one-day
complimentary registration to the annual meeting for practitioners. (This
program, incidentally, was proposed by Joe O'Reilly, a past VP for Div H.)
Paul LeMahieu is coordinating this effort for Div H for next year. If you
have contacts for local practitioners in the San Francisco area, please
contact him at plem@carnegiefoundation.org.

4f. Graduate Students. In addition to the two monetary dissertation
awards, coffee mentoring, and early career mentoring grants, at the annual
meeting in Vancouver this year we awarded $50 to all graduate student
members of Div H who presented a paper in any division or SIG. We intend
to continue this next year in San Francisco.

4g. International Members. Our International Committee, chaired by Whitney
Bortz, whitneyelaine8@gmail.com, and Brucu Kaniskan,
burcukaniskan@gmail.com, are readhing out to international members in
several ways. The committee has coordinated excellent invited sessions in
the past (and have another great one planned for San Francisco), and last
year we sponsored an international reception. We intend to do the same
next year.

5. 2012-2013 Initiatives From AERA President, Bill Tierney. Bill invites
input on all of the following.

5a. Human Rights and Academic Life. AERA has for many years been involved
in several human rights activities--American Association for the
Advancement of Science (AAAS), Human Rights Coalition, and most recently,
the Scholars at Risk Network (SAR) program. SAR is an international
network of universities and colleges committed to promoting academic
freedom and defending the human rights of scholars worldwide. AERA will
cross-post SAR's action alerts, and Bill encourages you to get involved by
offering to bring a scholar to your campus, write letters when there is an
action alert, and consider volunteering on the various task forces.

5b. Evaluating Education Research, Scholarship, and Teaching.
Postsecondary institutions are going through significant changes
pertaining to tenure, promotion, scholarship, and teaching. Jim
Fairweather, Michigan State University, is chairing a task force on this
issue.

5c. Working Conditions for Contingent Faculty. The fastest growing group
in postsecondary education is non-tenure-track adjunct faculty. Little is
known about the sorts of support these individuals are receiving or need
to receive to be effective teachers, researchers, and scholars. Professor
Adrianna Kezar, University of Southern California, is chairing a task
force to investigate this topic.

6. AERA Grants Program. The AERA Grants Program is accepting proposals for
its two research initiatives, with a deadline of September 19, 2012. These
programs provide small grants and training for researchers who conduct
studies of education policy and practice using quantitative methods,
including the analysis of data from the large-scale data sets sponsored by
National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) and the National Science
Foundation (NSF). For more information visit the AERA website at
www.aera.net/grantsprogram. You may also contact George Wimberly at
grantsprogram@aera.net or (202) 238-3200. 

VP Announcements - Mid-July 2012 
1. Division H Call for Nominations. Nominations for both the Vice
President and Secretary positions are due today, July 15. We will elect
these officers (during the regularly scheduled AERA elections) this year
(2012-2013), they shadow current officers in 2013-2014, and they begin
their tenure at the annual conference in 2014.

The Vice President position is a three-year term (2014-2017). The
Secretary position is a two-year term 2014 (2014-2016).

If you would like to nominate yourself or someone else for either of these
positions, please contact Faith Connolly, Nominations Committee Chair at
faithconnolly@gmail.com. Please send Faith a background information
statement which includes why you want this position and a summary of your
history of work and support for Division H. Please also include a short
vita. 

VP Announcements - July 2012 
Hello everyone. It's time to submit proposals for the annual conference in
2013! Additional information is in #2 below. Other interesting items,
including the call for Division H officers (#1 below), job announcements
(#4) and information about AERA activities (#3 and #5) are also included.

I will send an extra blast this month to remind everyone again to send in
proposals. Please let me know if you'd like to make any announcements in
the next blast.

I hope everyone is having a great summer.

1. 2012 Division H Call for Nominations. Nominations for both the Vice
President and Secretary positions are due July 15. We will elect these
officers (during the regulary scheduled AERA elections) this year
(2012-2013), they shadow current officers in 2013-2014, and they begin
their tenure at the annual conference in 2014.

The Vice President position is a three-year term with the term beginning
April of 2014. The Secretary position is a two-year term with the term
beginning April of 2014.

If you would like to nominate yourself or someone else for either of these
positions, please contact Faith Connolly, Nominations Committee Chair at
faithconnolly@gmail.com. Please send Faith a background information
statement which includes why you want this position and a summary of your
history of work and support for Division H. Please also include a short
vita.

2. Change in when proposals are due. Proposals for AERA 2013 in San
Francisco are now due July 23 since July 22 is a Sunday.  All submissions
must be done electronically at www.aera.net. The call for submissions,
which provides information on how to submit proposals, is at:

http://www.aera.net/Portals/38/docs/Publications/AERA%20Highlights/AERA2013AMCallForSubmissions.pdf

Please submit proposals to Division H! The number of conference sessions
allotted to us depends on the number of proposals we get.

3. Other News About San Francisco, 2013.
  * Free Internet access in all public meeting spaces in all meeting hotels.
  * Web streaming.
  * Interesting new formats for sessions including documentaries, and Ignite-type sessions.
  * A continuation of having an opening plenary session.

4. Job Announcements.

4a. University of North Dakota, Dean of the College of Education and Human
Development. The position advertisement is available at
http://www.wittkieffer.com/position/university-of-north-dakota/dean-of-the-college-of-education-and-human-development/8069.

4b. Two-year Post-doctoral Fellowship in Education Policy and Methods at
the University of Pennsylvania, Graduate School of Education.  $50,000 per
year, plus health insurance, and generous funding for conference travel,
professional development, and a computer fund. Direct all inquiries about
to Professor Laura M. Desimone at lauramd@gse.upenn.edu.

4c. PARCC assessment development. Announcement is attached.

4d.  The University of Michigan-Dearborn, inaugural director of the newly
formed Oakwood/UM-Dearborn Research Partnership to advance inclusive
childhood education and health. For further information prospective
applicants are encouraged to visit
http://www.soe.umd.umich.edu/soe_employment.

5. Other AERA News.

5a. Amicus Brief. AERA is preparing an Amicus brief for the Fisher v.
University of Texas-Austin court case which will rule on using affirmative
action criteria for college admission. Basically AERA will argue that the
substantial amount of social good that comes out of affirmative action
admissions dramatically outweighs any potential harm that could accrue to
individual underprepared admittees.

5b. Presidential Task Forces. Our current AERA President, Bill Tierney,
has established 3 task forces this year: (a) guidance on criteria for
tenure in a changing world, (b) standards for part-time, adjunct, and
contingent faculty, and (c) bullying. The bullying task force will produce
a series of 11 briefs on various topics.

5c.  AERA Centennial. AERA will be 100 years old in 2016. AERA is planning
a series of activities, celebrations, and media events. Since school
district directors of research bureaus were the founders of AERA, Division
H will take a very active role in planning.

5d. AERA Awards. There are several AERA-wide awards given to researchers
from life-time achievement to early career. Nominations are being accepted
through November. Self nominations are acceptable. More information is
available on the AERA website: aera.net. 

VP Announcements - June 2012 
Hello, Division H'rs. This is the June, 2012 blast. Submissions for the
2013 program are due--see #1 below.

1. 2013 Annual Meeting Submissions. The theme for next year's annual
meeting is "Education and Poverty: Theory, Research, Policy and Praxis."
The system will be open for submissions June 1 – July 22nd, 2012. The call
for submissions is at:
http://www.aera.net/Portals/38/docs/Publications/AERA%20Highlights/AERA2013AMCallForSubmissions.pdf

Please submit proposals. We are assigned sessions depending on the number of submissions we receive.

2. Div H Social 2013.  While a crack committee is looking for a grand spot
to hold the 2013 Div H Social in San Francisco, we welcome your
suggestions if you have a feel for bistros and back rooms near the
conference hotels. Perhaps your sister the piano player knows a place?
(Contact Peter
Hendrickson at p.hendrickson43@gmail.com)

3. Division H website. Below is the new link to the Division H website. We
are working hard to make sure that everything transferred correctly when
AERA switched platforms in March. Please let our webmaster, Brad Coverdale
<bjcoverdale@gmail.com>, know if you are having problems accessing the
site or finding information.
http://www.aera.net/AboutAERA/MemberConstituents/Divisions/ResearchEvaluationAssessmentinSchoolsH/tabid/11136/Default.aspx

4. World Educational Research Association Meeting. The deadline for WERA
Submissions is June 30 for the upcoming Meeting in Sydney, Australia,
December 2-6, 2012. The call for submissions is at: http://www.weraonline.org/PDFs/2012Submissions.pdf

VP Announcements - May 2012 
Hello Division H'ers. Welcome back from the annual conference in
Vancouver. I hope you all had an enjoyable and productive meeting. Here's
the blast for May. Please especially attend to #1 as the deadline is
rapidly approaching for volunteering to be a reviewer.

1. Annual Conference Proposal Reviewers. AERA has decided to keep the
volunteer system open for a few more days. The system will be closed
9:00am eastern time on Monday, April 30th. We need all the reviewers we
can get! Please follow the instructions below to sign up. Thanks to
everyone who has already enrolled.

To sign up as a volunteer to review submissions, members must go to the
home page of AERA - www.aera.net.  Then click on 'My AERA' at the top of
the screen.  Scroll down to 'AERA Annual Meeting' and then click on the
link for the 2013 AERA Annual Meeting Online Portal. Underneath the
Volunteer Menu, click on the link 'Volunteer to be a Reviewer'.

 2. Division H Video. At the request of last year's AERA president, Arnetha
Ball, each division was asked to assemble a video on how the conference
theme--No Know is Not Enough--is being expressed by that division. Joe
O'Reilly spearheaded the effort for Division H. It turns out to be a good
infomercial for the division. We owe Joe our heartfelt thanks. Here's the
link: http://www.edtv99.org/video/11155

3. Early Career Mentorships.  Division H supports mentoring opportunities
for graduate students just completing their programs. We offer up to four
$1000 awards for graduate students to visit an organization whose work is
of interest to them. (A fifth one is available from Paul LeMahieu.) We can
help graduate students find a mentoring organization if they don't already
have one in mind. Applications are are the Division H website. For
additional information contact Toni Stroter, <adstroter@liberty.edu>.
Applications will be reviewed periodically throughout the year. (If you
are interested in being a mentor, either contact Toni or fill out the
mentor form on the website.)

 4. DRE survey. The Directors of Research and Evaluation (DRE) is closely
aligned with Division H. DRE is conducting a survey to gather information
that will help them provide support to those in school districts charged
with collecting data, analyzing it and helping staff use it, whether in a
dedicated office or as ‘other duties as assigned.’

The capacity to do these activities varies greatly across districts. DRE
is asking you and other colleagues in districts around the country to tell
them about the research capacity in their districts. They will use the
findings of this survey to develop resources to support you and others in
jobs like yours.  Such support will include grant funding, working with
the U.S. Department of Education, and helping each other. We will also
send you a copy of the results so you can compare your district to others
that are similar.

Please take ten to fifteen minutes to complete the School District
Research Resources Survey at
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/K12_Research_Resources_Survey

If you have any questions please contact Joe O'Reilly: joreilly@mpsaz.org
or (480) 472-0241.

The survey is solely the responsibility of the Directors of Research &
Evaluation. The survey distribution is supported by our friends at
CTB/McGraw-Hill, AERA Division H, the National Association of Test
Directors and the Council of the Great City Schools. If you receive more
than one request to complete the survey it is because you are associated
with more than one of these groups. Please accept our apology for any
duplicate messages, but we wanted to make sure all districts had the
opportunity to participate.

 5. Job Posting. The University of Delaware currently is seeking to fill an
Assistant or Associate Professor, Tenure Track in Program Evaluation.
Consult this link: http://www.udel.edu/001263

6. Division H Volunteer Opportunities. Thank you to everyone who has
volunteered to work on a Division H committee. If I haven't already
contacted you, I, or a committee chair, will contact you soon. Working on
a committee is a great way to network. A list of committees can be found
on the division H website. I'm also attaching a volunteer form to this
blast. The more, the merrier, so please let me know how you'd like to be
involved. 

VP Announcements - April 2012 
Hello Division H'ers. The annual conference is just around the corner. There will be several events in the VP suite in the Marriott. When I know the suite number I'll send it out. I hope to see everyone in Vancouver.

Four things to note:

A. We need 3-4 senior researchers to host graduate student roundtables at
the GS Orientation, Friday, April 13, 10-12, Fairmont Waterfront,
MacKenzie Room 1. The roundtaables will probably commence around 11. Let
me (judy@bctonline.com) and/or Brad Coverdale (bjcoverdale@gmail.com) know
if you will be available. Any graduate student who would like feedback on
his/her research is welcome to just show up and join a rountable. (Bring
10 cc of a research summary.)

B. We need volunteers at the Division H Booth. Please volunteer for an
hour or two and help the division while meeting other members from around
the country. We are in Booth #331 at the Convention Center. Booth hours
are:
Friday 04/13/2012 Set up (wear clothes that might get a bit dirty) 1 - 2 pm
Sat 04/14/2012 Show Date 9 am - 6 pm
Sun 04/15/2012 Show Date 9 am - 4 pm
Mon 04/16/2012 Show Date 9 am - 5 pm
Mon 04/16/2012 Tear down (wear clothes that might get a bit dirty) 5 pm -
6 pm
Try to arrive 5 minutes early so the other volunteers can get to their
sessions. I have set the sign-up sheet to have up to 2 volunteers per time
slot. The link to the sign-up sheet is:
http://www.doodle.com/vn8m7h7vyk2icfmg
For more information contact: Dan Bugler, dbugler@wested.org,404-394-3747
(cell).

B. I will host a bluegrass/old time/country music jam in the VP suite,
Sunday evening, around 7-9 pm. No RSVP needed; just show up if you want to
play or listen.

C. Please respond to the DRE survey. Information is attached.

1. New AERA Website. The new AERA website went on-line recently. You will
need to set up a new password before you can log into the system.
Directions for doing this are on the log-in page.

At least one member told me that if you created your conference schedule
under the previous system, you might need to do it again under the new
system.

Please check the website content and let myself, Ray Moy
(raymond.moy@mail.cuny.edu), or Brad Coverdale (bjcoverdale@gmail.com)
know if you find Division H information that needs to be added or
modified.


2. Division H Newsletter. The pre-conference Reality Test has been
published on the new website. It is too large to attach to this blast. It
contains a complete listing of Division H sessions and special events. It
also has other articles of interest. Thanks to Mary Yakimowski for
coordinating publication.


3. Annual Conference. Special Division H events were described in the
March blast and are detailed in the newsletter. Just for completeness,
what follows is a short list.

3a. Remember that Division H is offering $50 travel support for graduate
sudents who are a current member of Division H and are delivering a paper
for any session at AERA in any format. We will distribute reimbursement
forms and provide assistance in completing them at our various graduate
student events.

3b. Graduate Student Orientation and Early Career Mentoring Session:
Friday, April 13, 10:00-12:00, Fairmont Waterfront, MacKenzie Room 1.
There is a brief orientation to Division H, including graduate student
activities for the annual meeting and early career mentoring
opportunities, followed by research roundtables. There will be
refreshments.

3c. Movers and Shakers Meeting: Friday, 8-10 pm, VP suite.  There will be
food and drink.

3d. Graduate Student Poster Session Using Data to Drive Educational
Success: Saturday, April 14, 10:35-12:05, Vancouver Convention Center, 1st
Level, East Ballroom B.

3e. Affirmative Action Perspectives: Blurring the Margin/Center
Divide Methodological, Theoretical, and Practical Implications for
Research: Saturday, April 14, 2:15-3:45, Marriott, 3rd Floor, Pinnacle
III.

3f. Division H Breakfast and Business Meeting: Monday, April 16, 8:15-10:
15, Marriott, Pinnacle III.

3g. International Perspectives on Implementation and Effectiveness of
Teacher Evaluation Models: Monday, April 16, 2:15-3:45, Vancouver
Convention Center, 2nd floor, West Room 215-216.

3h. International Reception: Monday, April 16, 4:00-5:30, Vancouver
Convention Center, 2nd floor, West Room 215-216. The reception follows the
international session described above. There will be refreshments.

3i. Fireside Chat Your First Research Position: Insight and Advice from
Veterans in the Field: Monday, April 16, 4:05-5:35, Marriott, 4th floor,
Ambleside. Panelists will describe employment opportunities for those
pursuing school research-type degrees: Winona Burt (Division H Affirmative
Action Committee Chair, University of Connecticut), Dale Whittington
(Division H Secretary, Shaker Heights School District), Lorrie A. Shepard
(Universityh of Colorado), Zollie Stevenson (Howard University to discuss
government careers, and Joan Herman (UCLA to discuss career opportunities
in Labs, Centers, and research and development
organizations).

3j. Graduate Student Reception: Monday, 5:30-6:30, VP suite. All graduate
students interested in Division H are invited, even if you are not
currently a member. We also invite other Division H members who want to
encourage graduate student participation in our division. There will be
refreshments.

3k. Division H Social Reception. Monday, April 16, 7-9 pm, Steamworks
Brewing Company, 375 Water Street. A map is included in the newsletter.
attached. We will also have flyers available at various Division H
activities during AERA.

3l. Changing Mathematics Education with Technology Through Research in
Schools: Tuesday, April 17, 8:15-10:15, Vancouver Convention Center, 1st
level, East Ballroom A.

3m. Division H Booth. Exhibits area, Vancouver Convention Center, Exhibit
Hall A, Exhibition Level. We are booth #331. Look for an e-mail soon for
volunteers to sign up to staff the booth.

3n. Jam. I will host a bluegrass/oldtime/country music jam (acoustic
instruments) Sunday evening in the VP suite, 7-9 pm. All musicians and
others just wanting to listen or sing along are invited.

4. Mentorships. Division H supports mentoring opportunities by graduate
students just completing their programs. We offer up to four $1000 awards.
It is up to graduate students to find a mentor whose organization they
would like to visit. Contact Toni Stroter, <adstroter@liberty.edu>.
Applications will be reviewed periodically throughout the year.

5. The Centre for Culture, Identity and Education (CCIE) University of
British Columbia <http://ccie.educ.ubc.ca/> will present a FREE Two-Day
Conference:
Black British Columbians: Race, Space and the Historical Politics of
Difference at the US/Canada Border
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April 11 & 12, 2012, St. John's College, 2111 Lower Mall, University of
British Columbia
RSVP:  http://tinyurl.com/EarlyBlackSettlers
For more information, contact: <joanne.oconnor@ubc.ca>

6. AERA Task Forces. Our incoming AERA President, Bill Tierney, is
convening three task forces and is looking for volunteers to work on them.
The task forces are described on the new AERA web site: tenure, part-time
faculty, and bullying. The deadline for indicating indicating interest is
April 23.



VP Announcements - March 2012