Hello Educational Statisticians (EdStats) SIG members!

It's feeling like summer and that means it's time to prepare our proposals for the 2023 Annual Meeting per the 2023 AERA call for papers.  Last year we had three sessions and were able to accept many of the strong proposals that were submitted.

As was true last year, the SIG will sponsor the Best Graduate Student Paper Award. We encourage our graduate-student members to submit their proposals as first or sole author to the Educational Statisticians SIG.  Students must be members of the EdStats SIG to qualify for the award, so that is motivation to join the SIG via the AERA SIG memberships page!

We will provide more details about the award criteria shortly.  Please do not hesitate to reach out to me at bbecker@fsu.edu if you have any questions about proposals or the award.

Best regards,

Betsy Becker, Program Chair, Educational Statisticians SIG

Emeritus Professor of Measurement and Statistics

Florida State University

Chair: Audrey J. Leroux 

Secretary/Treasurer: Cengiz Zopluoglu

Program chair: Betsy J. Becker

Webmaster: Julie A. Lorah

Newsletter editor: NA

Member at large: Qian Zhang 

Member at large: Tracy Sweet

AERA Educational Statisticians Graduate Student Best Paper Award

Rationale for Establishing the Award:  The award is designed to encourage graduate students to prepare and present research papers at the annual conference.  

Eligibility Criteria: 

To be eligible, the graduate student must:

1. Be a current member of the Educational Statisticians SIG.
2. Be first or sole author on a paper presented at the annual AERA conference (and be listed in the program as presenting author on the paper in either a paper presentation or roundtable session).  The nominee may have faculty or other graduate students as co-authors but, in this case, must be listed as first author on the paper and be presenting the paper.
3. Upload the full version of the paper to be presented on the AERA portal.

AERA Educational Statisticians Special Interest Group Annual Service Award

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS

The Educational Statisticians SIG is pleased to announce a call for nominations for the 2023 Educational Statisticians SIG Annual Service Award.  The Service Award is designed to recognize individuals who have provided exceptional contributions to the field of educational statistics and to the Educational Statisticians SIG.  The award winner will be announced at the AERA Educational Statisticians SIG business meeting. 

Eligibility Criteria:

• The nominee must have contributed a significant amount of high-quality service to the field of educational statistics and to the Educational Statisticians SIG.
• The nominee must be a current member of the Educational Statisticians SIG.
• The nominee must have been a member of the Educational Statisticians SIG for a minimum of five years.

Nominations Must Include the Following Two Items:

• A letter of nomination from at least one professional colleague who is also an Educational Statisticians SIG member providing evidence of the nominee’s service contribution to the field of educational statistics and to the Educational Statisticians SIG.
• The nominee’s curriculum vita.

The deadline for nomination submissions is January 27, 2023.  To apply for the 2023 Educational Statisticians SIG Annual Service Award or to receive more information, please contact Audrey Leroux at aleroux@gsu.edu.