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Upcoming Webinars & Speaker Series
Communities, Leadership & Service
Conference Meetings
AERA Division D Spring Webinar: Quantitative Ethnography
Please join AERA Division D for its Spring Webinar on Quantitative Ethnography. This webinar is free and open to students, faculty, staff, and anyone interested in learning more about Quantitative Ethnography and Epistemic Network Analysis.
FREE WEBINAR: Tips, Tools, and Community Support in Open Scholarship
This inaugural webinar of the AERA Open Scholarship SIG introduces core open scholarship practices, including open access, data sharing, preregistration, registered reports, and replication. Speakers will discuss tools, address common concerns, and invite participant feedback to help shape the SIG.
FREE WEBINAR: Data Sharing for Research Transparency (Qualitative & Multi-Method)
This webinar introduces options for sharing qualitative data, with a focus on the Qualitative Data Repository (QDR). Topics include data deposit workflows, access control for human participant data, and best practices for managing qualitative research materials to support transparency and reuse.
FREE Qualitative Virtual Speaker Series: Critical Qualitative Conversations
A Spring 2026 virtual speaker series sponsored by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of Alabama, and Baylor University.
AERA Open Scholarship SIG: Launch Announcement
The AERA Open Scholarship SIG has officially launched as a SIG in formation within the American Educational Research Association. The SIG aims to highlight research on open scholarship, investigate best practices for implementing open scholarship in education, develop new mechanisms for open scholarship, and promote transparent and reproducible research practices.
AERA 2026: Open Scholarship SIG Business Meeting
The meeting will include discussion of SIG plans, opportunities for involvement, and a guest presentation by Dr. Amanda Montoya (UCLA).
AERA 2026: Division D Mentoring Session
AERA Division D invites graduate students and early career professionals to a mentoring session featuring small-group roundtable discussions with established scholars across quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methodologies.
Journals & Calls for Papers
Leadership & Service Opportunities
Summer Internship Programs
Psychometrika: Call for Papers -- Special Issue on Data-Intensive Methods in Psychometrics
The journal Psychometrika invites proposals for a Special Issue on Data-Intensive Methods in Psychometrics, featuring methodological research that leverages large-scale datasets. Submissions should meet the standards of the journal’s Theory and Methods section and may include novel data-intensive methods or critical evaluations of established methodologies using large volumes of data.
Important Dates
More Information
URL: https://www.psychometricsociety.org/post/call-special-issue-intensive-methods Email: Dr. Benjamin W. Domingue (bdomingue@stanford.edu)
Division D Graduate Student Committee: Call for Officers (2026–2027 Academic Year)
The AERA Division D Graduate Student Committee is seeking applications for officer positions for the 2026–2027 academic year.
Open Positions
Application Materials
Important Date
Email: divd.gradstudent@gmail.com
Center for Measurement Justice: Summer Internship Program for Doctoral Students
The Center for Measurement Justice (CMJ) invites applications from doctoral students in educational measurement, psychometrics, and related fields for its 2026 Summer Internship Program. This internship provides doctoral students with the opportunity to engage in justice-oriented measurement research and professional activities under the mentorship of CMJ scholars.
Important Information
Contact: Dr. Jennifer Randall Email: jrandall@measurementjustice.org
Conferences & Calls for Proposals
Workshops & Professional Development
Modern Modeling Methods (M³) Conference 2026 – Call for Proposals June 23–24, 2026 | Fordham University, Lincoln Center, New York City (Pre-conference Stan workshop: June 22, 2026)
The Modern Modeling Methods (M³) Conference invites proposals for methodological and applied research on statistical modeling, including latent variable, multilevel, longitudinal, psychometric, Bayesian, and causal models. Paper, poster, and symposium proposals are welcome, including work previously presented elsewhere.
More Information & Submission
Free SREE Open Science Affinity Group Webinar: Getting Started with Registered Reports January 16, 2026 | 12:00 PM EST / 9:00 AM PST
This free webinar introduces registered reports, a publication format in which studies are peer-reviewed and accepted prior to data collection, reducing publication bias. The session will cover the basics of registered reports, how to identify appropriate journals, review examples, and navigate the submission and review process.
Presenter Dr. Amanda Montoya, Associate Professor of Quantitative Psychology, UCLA
Registration (Required) https://sree.memberclicks.net/oswebinar1
NCIEA Scott Marion Summer Internship in Educational Assessment and Accountability (Onsite) Early June – Mid/Late July 2026 (8 weeks)
The National Center for the Improvement of Educational Assessment (NCIEA) offers a full-time, 8-week summer internship for advanced doctoral students in educational measurement or assessment/accountability policy. Interns complete an applied research project with NCIEA staff and receive an $8,000 stipend, a $3,000 housing allowance, relocation support, and a $1,000 conference travel stipend.
More Information & Application https://www.nciea.org/about-us/internships/
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