The SIG Leadership team met virtually on the following dates:
- July 12, 2022
- September 28, 2022
- October 28, 2022
- February 2, 2023
- April 5, 2023
The team was comprised of the following individuals:
- Amy Dresher, Chair
- Markus Broer, Chair-Elect
- Bitnara Jasmine Park, Program Co-Chair
- Regina Lewis, Program Co-Chair
- Judy Tang, Treasurer
- Renee Savoie, Secretary
- Robert Perkins, Webmaster
- Haobai Zhang, Graduate Student Representative
- Angela Battaglia, Communication Support
- Andrew Hudacs, Newsletter Editor
Additionally, small workgroups met to finalize decisions as needed.
The SIG leadership meetings were scheduled with the following core set of recurring topics while other relevant topics were added as appropriate.
Additionally, meetings reserved time for discussing the topics listed below.
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Professional learning opportunities to be sponsored by the SIG
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Soliciting nominations for and selecting the winner of the first-ever NAEP Studies SIG Outstanding Paper Award
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Increasing SIG membership
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SIG Officer Elections
SIG Achievements in 2022-23
Minutes from every leadership meeting are saved in a shared folder accessible to the leadership team. This repository is helpful in generating the annual summary of activities and serves as a resource when there is a transition in SIG leadership.
In 2022-23, the SIG issued its first call for nominations for the newly established Outstanding Paper Award, formed a committee to review six nominations, and selected a winner announced at the annual NAEP Studies SIG Business Meeting held in Chicago, IL. The winning paper was “Relation between digital tool practices in the language arts classroom and reading comprehension scores” by Ladislao Salmerón, Cristina Vargas, Pablo Delgado, and Naomi Baron. The paper appeared in Reading and Writing (2022) 36: 175-194. Dr. Salmerón accepted the award on behalf of his coauthors during the business meeting and provided attendees a summary of their work.
The work of the Program Co-Chairs resulted in a final AERA 2023 program that in addition to the Business Meeting included a symposium and two poster sessions.
Research Into High School Coursework and Achievement Using the NAEP High School Transcript Study
Examining Validity of Student National School Lunch Program Eligibility in NAEP After Community Eligibility Provision (Poster)
Predicting Geography Achievement in the United States: The Role of Opportunity to Learn (Poster)
The SIG’s online presence has continued in 2022-23 through the work of Robert Perkins, the outgoing Webmaster. The SIG page on the AERA website has been regularly and quickly updated based on suggestions shared during leadership team meetings including advertising upcoming events hosted by the SIG and others. The Webmaster continues to maintain the SIG’s YouTube channel and the SIG’s Gmail account (AERANAEPStudiesSIG@gmail.com) as well as the SIG’s LinkedIn and Facebook pages.
Members of the SIG leadership team led the effort to organize two SIG-sponsored webinars, which were recorded and posted on the SIG’s YouTube channel.
Examining High School Coursetaking and Academic Performance: 2019 NAEP High School Transcript Study (HSTS), June 15, 2022
The NAEP HSTS is a special study where transcripts are collected and analyzed from a nationally representative sample of public and private high school graduates. The study examines the types of courses in which graduates were enrolled in high school, how many credits they earned, and the grades they received as well as the relationship between high school coursework and academic performance measured by grade 12 NAEP assessments. In this session, Robert Perkins and Lisa Hamilton of Westat reviewed results from the 2019 NAEP HSTS, looking at trends in high school coursetaking over the past three decades. In this webinar, they reviewed changes in the HSTS methodology since 2009, the ways that the HSTS data can be analyzed, the results from the 2019 study, and the resources available to educational researchers who may be interested in incorporating the HSTS data into their work.
What Does NAEP Tell us about Education of Indigenous People of America? December 13, 2022
This webinar was conducted in collaboration with the AERA Indigenous Peoples of
Americas SIG to discuss the NAEP National Indian Education Study (NIES). The NIES is a special study funded by the Office of Indian Education (OIE) to understand the role of American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) culture in students' lives and school experiences and the integration of Native culture and language into instruction and how schools respond to the distinctive needs of their AI/AN students. The invited speakers for the session included Dr. James Deaton, National Center for Education Statistics, United States Department of Education; Dr. Crystal C. Moore, Ed.D. (Ed-Tech, OK Choctaw Tribal Member), Office of Elementary & Secondary Education, United States Department of Education; Dr. Susan Faircloth, Professor and Director of the School of Education at Colorado State University; and Dr. Jameson David Lopez, Assistant Professor in the Center for the Study of Higher Education at the University of Arizona.
The SIG issued newsletters in Fall 2022 and Spring 2023. Credit for this achievement goes to members of the Newsletter Subcommittee and other SIG members who contributed to the work.
Newsletter Subcommittee Members:
- Angela Battaglia
- Jeremy Ellis
- Andrew Hudacs
- Paul Kleinert
- B. Jasmine Park
- Yuxi Qiu
Given the challenges associated with populating an annual ballot of SIG officer candidates from within a small SIG, members of the leadership team worked with AERA to adjust terms for each of the elected roles and designate other roles as appointed. The future slate of leadership roles will be as follows:
- Elected positions
- Chair (3-year term: Chair-Elect, Chair, Immediate Past Chair)
- Program Co-Chair (3-year term)
- Secretary/Treasurer (2-year term)
- Appointed positions
- Web and Social Media Manager
- Graduate Student Representative
- Newsletter Editor