Welcome to day two of the AERA Annual Meeting. Each morning, AERA14 Preview will provide tips on key sessions and events, as well as other Annual Meeting resources and highlights you won’t want to miss. Make sure to download the official AERA14 mobile app through your app store by searching "aera 2014 annual meeting" or following the instructions on the Annual Meeting Program Mobile App page. Join the conversation: Use the conference hashtag #AERA14, and follow AERA on Twitter at @AERA_EdResearch. Questions? Contact the AERA Meetings Team at annualmtg@aera.net.
Key Sessions
AERA Welcoming Orientation for New Members and First-Time Attendees 7:00 am to 8:00 am Convention Center, 100 Level – 122B Chairs: Barbara Schneider (Michigan State University), Joyce E. King (Georgia State University), Felice J. Levine (AERA) New members and first-time meeting attendees are invited to an orientation session. This session offers an opportunity to learn more about AERA and the benefits of being a member, as well as helpful tips on navigating the Annual Meeting.
The Wallace Foundation Distinguished Lecture: Catherine Snow, Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Education, Harvard University Rigor and Realism: Doing Educational Science in the Real World 10:35 am to 12:05 pm Convention Center, 200 Level – 201A Session hashtag: #AERAReal Session will also be live-streamed Some educational researchers are adopting new models for doing educational research, models that start from problems of practice, prioritize the challenge of utility to educators, and presuppose partnership relationships between researchers and practitioners. In attempting to implement such approaches, we often find that attention to the conditions of real-world practice may compete with attention to the constraints of rigorous design. That familiar problem can be exacerbated by the conflicting epistemologies of real-world decision-making vs. rigorous scientific knowledge-building. This conflict, in its multiple forms only some of which will be discussed, is a dilemma rather than a problem; it demands careful consideration of approaches to balancing the desirable features of rigor and of realism when they conflict.
This symposium focuses on a new report released by the National Research Council (NRC) urging that federal regulations protecting human research subjects improve the review process for social and behavioral science research. With an introduction by Robert M. Hauser (Executive Director, NRC Division on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education), three members of the NRC panel issuing this report – Susan Fiske, chair (Princeton University), Celia Fisher (Fordham University), and Felice J. Levine (AERA) – will present key recommendations from this important report.
Communicating Academic Research to Mainstream Audiences 2:15 pm to 3:45 pm Convention Center, 200 Level – 202A Marybeth Gasman (University of Pennsylvania) Scott Jaschik (Inside Higher Ed) This session focuses on communicating scholarly research to mainstream, practice-based, and policy audiences. Participants will learn how to write opinion pieces for newspapers and blogs, use Facebook and Twitter to communicate their research findings, and strategies for writing and speaking in clear, concise ways that can be easily digested by funders and policymakers. The session will be taught in a hands-on manner with group and individual exercises. The target audience includes faculty and graduate students at all levels.
Annual Meeting Resources
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