CURRENT GRADUATE STUDENT REPRESENTATIVE OF AERA DIVISION H GRADUATE STUDENT COUNCIL
Whitney Wall Senior Representative Queen’s University, Belfast wwall01@qub.ac.uk
Teaching mathematics and journalism in a diverse Los Angeles middle school led to many questions regarding teaching and learning, and I decided to explore these questions through research. After working at CRESST, UCLA for a year, I left the country to begin PhD studies at Queens University, Belfast. Now in my first year, my research involves a sociocultural approach to studying teachers theories of learning and their practices of classroom assessment
Bradley Coverdale Junior Representative University of Maryland bjcoverdale@gmail.com
Brad is a doctoral student at the Department of Education, Measurement, and Statistics at the University of Maryland. He earned his B.A. in Computer Science at Messiah College and his M.A. in Quantitative Research, Evaluation, and Methodology at the Ohio State University. A first-generation college graduate, Upward Bound alumnus, and former Upward Bound academic advisor, Brad is interested in research that will help promote post-secondary educational opportunities for all students regardless of socioeconomic status. Currently he is investigating value-added modeling, computer-based performance assessment, and models that predict student success in a post-secondary environment. In his free time Brad likes to read, watch movies, play European-style board games and go site seeing with his wife.
Call for Junior Representative-Elect for Division H
Division H: Research, Evaluation, and Assessment in Schools Graduate Student Representative Position
This is a three-year appointment as Division H Graduate Student Representative to the AERA Graduate Student Council. In year one, you serve as the Junior Graduate Student Representative Elect. In year two, you move up to Junior Graduate Student Representative, and in year three, you serve as the Senior Graduate Student Representative. The Senior Representative attends the AERA fall Coordinated Committee meeting with expenses paid. The incoming, junior and senior representatives all receive a stipend of $700 to help with the cost of attending the annual AERA conference. As an incoming Junior Representative, you need to be a graduate student through April of 2013 to apply for the position. If you are interested, please email the Division Vice-President, Faith Connolly at FaithConnolly@gmail.com, and include a vita and background statement telling how you have been involved in Division H and why we should select you for this opportunity. We would like to make this appointment by March 1, so please forward your information by Friday, February 11. I will announce the selection on our listserv.
Last year, we selected Bradley Coverdale who attends the University of Maryland. He will become our Senior Graduate Student Council Representative following the AERA Annual Meeting in April 2011 and will continue in that role through the Annual Meeting in 2012. Whitney Wall, who attends the Queen’s University in Belfast, Northern Ireland, is our current Senior Graduate Student Representative and will serve through the April 2011 conference.