Still Time to Sign Up for Great Courses!
Still Time to Sign Up for Great Courses!
 
Vancouver Preview, April 9, 2012
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There is still time to register for the professional development courses to be given in Vancouver! Graduate students, early career scholars, and experienced researchers can expand their knowledge and research skills through the courses, which provide training in specific research methods and skills, cover significant research issues in related disciplines, emphasize specialized areas, address professional development issues, focus on research for the improvement of practice, or examine recent methodological and substantive developments in education research.

The extended courses begin on Thursday, April 12, and the mini-courses are held Saturday through Monday, April 14–16. You can register for the courses online or at the on-site registration in the Vancouver Convention Centre. Registration for any given course is open until the course begins.

All researchers and scholars may be interested in taking PDC18: Protection of Human Subjects in Education Research, which examines human research protection issues in the design, development, implementation, and review of social science research. It provides education researchers with an understanding of key concepts that inform federal guidelines on human research protection (e.g., consent, privacy and confidentiality, benefits and harms, level of risk) and the tools for assessing best ethical practices in the context of social science research. For further details, visit the online course listings.

Graduate students and early career scholars may find of particular interest the longstanding course How to Get Published: Guidance From Emerging and Senior Scholars (PDC26). This course will feature two panels: emerging scholars who have learned how to navigate the complex and demanding publication process successfully, and senior scholars who have acquired expertise in foundational aspects of publication. The course will present an overview of the publishing process, from conceptualizing studies to preparing well-crafted manuscripts and from submission through review and resubmission.

Several of the courses offered at the Annual Meeting provide training in quantitative research methods:

  • PDC01: An Introduction to Hierarchical Linear Modeling for Educational Researchers
  • PDC05: Mixed Data-Analysis Techniques: A Comprehensive Step-by-Step Approach
  • PDC13: Using the School Attendance Boundary Information System (SABINS)
  • PDC15: Marginal Mean Weighting Through Stratification: A Generalized Method for Causal Inference

Those who use large-scale federal data sets may be interested in:

Scholars who seek to enhance and advance their qualitative research skills should consider:

  • PDC23: Thinking With Theory in Qualitative Research
  • PDC29: To Know Is Not Enough: Applied Autoethnography in Research and Teaching

Visit the complete list of courses and their descriptions for further details.