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Conferences & Calls for Proposals

Call for Chapters: Best Teacher Practices for Scripted Curricula 

Call for Chapters: Best Teacher Practices for Scripted Curricula 

Publisher: IGI Global (www.igi-global.com) | Anticipated Publication Date: 2026

Contributions are invited for an upcoming edited volume focusing on effective and innovative teaching practices within scripted curricula across educational contexts.

For submission details and guidelines, please visit:
https://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/8922

For inquiries, please contact:
Dr. Olga Gould-Yakovleva at olgagoul@buffalo.edu

Conferences & Calls for Proposals
International Society for Educational Biography Conference

Open Access Book Release
Socioculturally Responsive Assessment: Implications for Theory, Measurement, and Systems-Level Policy

Journal Calls

• Executive Editor, Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice
• Special Issues, Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice
• Special Issue Submissions, Behavior Research Methods

Work Week
Critical Quantitative Methods Work Week

International Society for Educational Biography Conference Call for Proposals

The International Society for Educational Biography (ISEB) invites proposals for its annual conference, held in partnership with the Society of Philosophy and History of Education (SOPHE), October 2-4, 2025, at the Menger Hotel in San Antonio, TX. ISEB welcomes all members of the research community interested in life-writing. The conference theme is, “Pioneering and Tinkering Toward the Future: Innovators, Visionaries, and Snake Oil Vendors in Education.” The submission deadline is June 16, 2025.

For more information, visit https://isebio.com/ourconference.html#.

Socioculturally Responsive Assessment: Implications for Theory, Measurement, and Systems-Level Policy

Socioculturally Responsive Assessment assembles the best-available thinking from within and outside the educational measurement community about the theoretical foundations and systems-level policy implications of formal assessment programs designed to be socioculturally responsive. Synthesized from culturally responsive assessment design and practices, culturally relevant pedagogy and funds of knowledge, universal design for learning, the learning sciences, and other literatures, this emerging concept affirms that students’ learning and performance is inextricably tied to the social, cultural, and linguistic contexts in which they live and develop knowledge.

The book is available via open access and is free to download at https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003435105.

19 chapters written by a stellar group of 44 contributors (in alphabetical order):

Aneesha Badrinarayan, David Baidoo-Anu, PhD., Randy E. Bennett, Kelly Bruce, Gina Cervetti, Eduardo Crespo Cruz, Alanna Crop Eared Wolf, Linda Darling-Hammond, Stephen Dunbar, Ann Ebe, Norbert Elliot, Kerry Englert, Dave Escoffery, Katherine (Katie) Fletcher, Ph.D., Edmund Gordon, Cynthia Greenleaf, Kathleen Hinchman, Pōhai Kūkea Shultz, Carol D. Lee, Rochelle Michel, Robert Mislevy, Tim Moses, Sharon Nelson-Barber, Maria Elena Oliveri, Monsurat Raji (Ph.D.), Tenaha O'Reilly, Mariana Pacheco, P. David Pearson, Gabriel Rodríguez Matos, Maria Araceli Ruiz Primo, Edynn Sato, Ph.D., Vitaliy Shyyan, Ph.D., Stephen Sireci, Allison Skerrett, David Slomp, Guillermo Solano-Flores, Jesse R. Sparks, Rebecca A. Stone Danahy, Javier Suárez-Álvarez, Ph.D., Elise Trumbull, Michael Walker, Zuowei Wang, PhD, Catherine Welch, Elham Zandvakili

Call for New Executive Editor, Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice

Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice is currently recruiting for an Executive Editor with one (or more) of the following areas of expertise:

• Assessment in elementary/secondary teaching and/or higher education contexts
• Assessment policy, accountability systems, and/or philosophies of assessment
• Assessment in non-Western education systems
• Assessment, social justice, and equity

This role is a great opportunity for an academic with a strong research background in educational assessment, and who also has the commitment, drive and ability to help develop the journal. As part of this role, you will be responsible for the oversight and administration of a rigorous and proper peer review process that delivers an agreed amount of content of suitable scope and quality within an agreed publication timeframe.

As an Executive Editor, you would be joining a collaborative team of editors to provide leadership to the assessment community. The Editorial Board meets quarterly to discuss journal initiatives and directions.

Scholars from across educational contexts and career stages will be considered.

Becoming an editor of a journal is a rewarding and fulfilling experience where you have the opportunity to build your own networks, develop and promote the research in your field, and be recognized as a leading figure within the academic community.

Application Deadline: June 1, 2025

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Special Issues, Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice

Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice is a leading journal for scholarly output in the field of educational assessment. The journal is explicitly international in focus and encourages contributions from a wide range of assessment systems and cultures. Following APA standards, the journal publishes both theoretical and empirical scholarship that directly advances assessment theory, policy, and/or practice across formal education contexts.

Special Issues are an important feature of Assessment in Education. Each Special Issue focusses on a select topic of high interest to the Assessment in Education readership, and reflects an area of assessment that is timely, critical, and debated. Special Issues should seek to present multiple perspectives from diverse geographies on the selected topic. A list of previous Special Issues can be viewed here.

Assessment in Education is currently seeking proposals for Special Issues. All Special Issues in the journal must adhere to the following requirements:

• Special Issues will have a minimum of seven articles plus an editorial
• Special Issues will be managed by Guest Editor(s) and be assigned one regular Editor
• Contributing articles should be obtained through an open call process
• Conference-based Special Issues must include opportunity for additional contributors through an open call process
• All articles must all be submitted for external peer review as per the journal's usual policy
• All article processing will be administered through the ScholarOne Manuscripts platform

Submissions deadline: June 1, 2025

More information: https://think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issues/assessment-in-education-call-for-special-issue-proposals/

Special Issue Submissions, Behavior Research Methods

Behavior Research Methods Special Issue on Combining Adaptivity and Bayesian Methods in Empirical Behavioral Research
Guest Editors: Andreas Frey and Jonathan Templin

One of the central aspects of experimental psychology is the design with which the stimuli to be presented to the participants are selected. The term design can refer to both, the specification of the levels of a nominal independent variable (referred to as experimental design here) and the selection of test, survey, or questionnaire items to be presented as indicators of a dependent variable (referred to as test design here). Both serve the purpose to select stimuli to evoke the behavior of interest.

In both types of designs, methods which include adaptivity are considered to be highly efficient and flexible. Regarding the test design, the respective methods are referred to as Computerized Adaptive Testing (CAT). CAT uses the information from previous item responses and other preknowledge about the examinee to select the item to be presented next. With regard to the experimental design, the respective methods are referred to as Adaptive Design Optimization (ADO). ADO is an experimental design framework that dynamically selects optimal stimuli or conditions to maximize information and improve parameter estimation efficiency in experimental research. In addition to the basic idea of using examinee behavior during a study in order to optimize stimulus selection, CAT and ADO share numerous other statistical principles and properties. Despite their conceptual overlap, they have hardly been considered jointly yet. Recently, optimizing these adaptive approaches with Bayesian methods has been intensively discussed and first influential papers were published. These new developments in the areas of Bayesian CAT and Bayesian ADO are the focus of the proposed special issue.

All research articles (original articles and tutorials) on Bayesian CAT, Bayesian ADO, both combined, or other methods for psychological experimental research combining adaptivity and Bayesian statistics are welcome for this Special Issue. Articles must focus on an innovative approach and be written in such a way that they can be applied by BRM readers. Appropriate software or executable code must be made available for this purpose.

Submission Guidelines/Deadline
Submissions will be accepted beginning on May 1, 2025. The initial submission deadline is August 31, 2025.

All submissions will undergo a standard, full peer review, maintaining the same high editorial standards for regular submissions to Behavior Research Methods.

Please visit https://www.psychonomic.org/page/BayesianCAT for more information.

Critical Quantitative Methods Work Week

Join the Critical Quantitative Methods Work Week July 21-25, 2025!

We are thrilled to invite you to participate in the Critical Quantitative Methods Work Week, July 21-25th, 2025 (1:00 pm AST-4:00 pm AST), a dynamic, virtual, and zero-fee event designed to foster collaboration and advance the field of Critical Quantitative Methods. This event will bring together faculty, students, and practitioners to engage in meaningful discussions, share innovative research, and collectively explore the theoretical, pedagogical, and practical dimensions of our field. The title of our Work Week pays homage to the groundbreaking Erste Marxistische Arbeitswoche of 1923, reflecting our commitment to critical and rigorous inquiry.

There are two ways to engage:

• Presenters: Share your research and work.
• Attendees: Participate in discussions and interact with others to advance your own work.

Our discussions and presentations will be guided by three key themes:

• Pedagogy: exploring effective and critical approaches to teaching quantitative methods
• Theory: examining the philosophical and theoretical underpinnings of quantitative inquiry within critical frameworks
• Practice: discussing the application of critical quantitative methods in diverse fields and addressing real-world challenges

If you are interested in attending, register using the link below:
Attendee Registration Link

You may also submit a proposal to present during the work week using the link below:
Presentation Proposal Submission Form Link