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Last updated: March 4, 2010
2010-2012 MotSIG Elected Officers
AERA has processed the election returns and announced the new slate of elected officers for 2010-2012:
Chair: Mike Middleton
Thanks to everyone who participated in the election—candidates and voting members alike.
Johnmarshall Reeve
reeve@korea.ac.kr
Division 15 Dissertation Research Awards [LINK] Due May 1, 2010
Division 15 invites graduate students who are members or affiliates of the division to apply for a dissertation research award. The purpose of the award is to provide financial support for educational psychology doctoral students preparing to collect their dissertation data. Two grants will be awarded, each including a $1,000 stipend to be applied toward the student's dissertation research. Announcement of the grant award winners will be made at the 2010 APA convention in San Diego.
To be eligible, applicants must be current graduate students who are members or student affiliates of Division 15. Applicants must have submitted or defended a dissertation proposal to their committee but must have not yet collected dissertation data.
A completed application should contain the following four components, electronically submitted to Ellen Usher (ellen.usher@uky.edu) by May 1, 2010:
Please visit http://www.uky.edu/~eushe2/div15/#researchawards for more information on this award.
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The Call for Proposals for the 2009 AERA Annual Meeting has been posted at the AERA website. Proposals are due by August 1 at 11:59 pm (Pacific Standard Time). Our SIG has a tradition of having a strong, engaging program. I hope you'll consider submitting a proposal to continue that tradition.
I'd also like to encourage our SIG members to volunteer as proposal reviewers. The success of our program depends on the quality of our review process. Please let me know if you have any questions.
Graduate students are a vital part of the SIG and are encouraged to participate by submitting proposals and volunteering as reviewers as well.
Many thanks to our webmaster Michelle Riconscente who has given a new face to the SIG website www.motivationsig.net. The website has links for volunteering as a reviewer and submitting to the SIG at www.motivationsig.net/meetings.html.
Best regards,
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For members within the U.S., please plan on having your checks to me by Friday, March 14th. Mailing instructions are below. Dinner will be held at Brasserie Maison, 1700 Broadway near 53rd and 7th, walking distance from the Marriott, where the business meeting will be held. The menu includes an appetizer; choice of 3 entrees (chicken, steak or a vegetarian pasta); and dessert. Soda and coffee or tea are included. The cost, including tax and gratuity, is $77.00 per person. Additional beverages may be ordered and paid for at dinner.
TO RESERVE YOUR PLACE AT THE TABLE: 1. All members within the U.S. must mail a check, made out to me, to the following address: Dr. Lynley Anderman Please write your email address on your check or on an enclosure with the check. You will receive an emailed receipt which you should print and bring with you to dinner. 2. Members traveling from overseas ONLY may email me to reserve a place and pay me in cash, at the business meeting. Please email to: anderman.2@osu.edu Looking forward to seeing everyone in New York! Lynley Download 2008 MotSIG Program & Schedule Avi has provided an extremely handy PDF with all of the Motivation SIG program and schedule information you'd ever want to know. Don't leave home without it! (These are my words, not his.) Stephen Ciani to Receive Pintrich Award Congratulations to this year's recipient of the Paul Pintrich Memorial Award: Keith Ciani from the University of Missouri, Columbia. Keith's presentation, titled "Cognitive Biases in the Interpretation of Autonomic Arousal: A Test of the Construal Bias Hypothesis" will be presented in a thematic discussion session on Monday March 24th at 12:00 p.m. The award will be presented at the SIG Business Meeting on Wednesday March 26th, 6:15-7:45 p.m. Please join me and the SIG membership in congratulating Keith on his accomplishment! Lynley Student Program: Lunch with a Motivation Researcher Are you a graduate student who would you like to have lunch with an accomplished motivation researcher, someone whose work you may admire, or someone who has been down the road you see in front of you? If so, the AERA Motivation SIG has put together a new program for you at the 2008 conference in New York City! Nine highly accomplished motivation researchers have agreed to have lunch and engage in conversation with a group of graduate students interested in life as a motivation researcher. Graduate student coordinators have made all of the restaurant reservations. All restaurants will be in close proximity to the conference hotels and will have reasonably priced menus. Participants will be responsible for their own transportation and for the cost of their own lunch. Listed below are the nine lunch/conversation tables to choose from. Each lunch will last approximately an hour and a half. For Tuesday For Wednesday For Thursday Space at each of the lunch tables will be limited to the first six students to answer this invitation. This event was very successful last year and spaces filled up fast! To participate in this wonderful opportunity you must email junginkim@yahoo.com as soon as possible. In your email please indicate your name and which researchers you would like to have lunch with in order of your preference. Please also include your university, email or cell phone #, and research interest so the other students in your lunch will be aware of your interests and for the coordination of transportation (perhaps just to walk with one another). In response to your email, you can expect a confirmation email including the restaurant name and location where you will be having lunch. Lynley Dear SIG members, Please consider making a donation toward the SIG student award fund. Donations for the Paul Pintrich Memorial Award and the student travel awards are down considerably this year, compared to last year's contributions. If you are planning on making a donation but haven't done so yet, please send your checks to the MotSIG treasurer, Jessica Summers. Thanks for your on-going support of the SIG's activities! Lynley Congratulations to New Officers! The results of the election of SIG Officers for the 2008-2010 term are in. Congratulations to our new officers: Chair: Johnmarshall Reeve Thanks to all the candidates who agreed to put their names forward and to all who voted. Please plan on attending the SIG social hour and business meeting, Wednesday March 26th, to meet and congratulate the new team. 2008 MotSIG Dinner (Reservation Required) Hello everyone. I trust everyone is busily preparing their presentations for the upcoming AERA conference! It is my pleasure, once again, to invite all SIG members and their students and guests to join our annual SIG dinner, scheduled for Wednesday March 26th at 8:30 p.m., after the business meeting. To attend the dinner you MUST reserve a space and pre-pay. Details are as follows: Dinner will be held at Brasserie Maison, 1700 Broadway @ 53rd and 7th. At this point, we do not know which hotel the business meeting will be held in but this location should be an easy walk from any of the conference hotels. The menu includes an appetizer (probably Mediterranean tapas); choice of 3 entrees (chicken, steak or a vegetarian pasta); and dessert. Soda and coffee or tea are included. The cost, including tax and gratuity, is $77.00 per person. Additional beverages may be ordered and paid for at dinner. TO RESERVE YOUR PLACE AT THE TABLE: 1. All members within the U.S. must mail a check, made out to me, to the following address: Dr. Lynley Anderman Important: when sending your check to reserve a place for the SIG dinner, please write your email address on the check. You will receive an emailed receipt from my student assistant, Carey Andrzejewski (andrzejewski.9@osu.edu), that you can use for reimbursement purposes. *PLEASE BRING A PRINT OUT OF THE RECEIPT TO DINNER 2. Members traveling from overseas ONLY may email me to reserve a place and pay me in cash, at the business meeting. Please email to: anderman.2@osu.edu This location is able to accommodate a large group however, in the event that we reach their physical seating limitation, some people may get turned away. To be sure of a place, reserve early! A NOTE ON STUDENT COSTS: Because of the relatively high cost of dinner compared to previous years, I am not able to offer a reduced price to students (which would require charging faculty members more to compensate). For those senior members who would like to subsidize a student for dinner, I suggest you do so directly or consider donating to the student travel awards (through Jessica Summers), so that awardees can use their award money toward the cost of dinner. I look forward to seeing you all in New York! -Lynley Big Thanks to APA Division 15! We want to extend our appreciation to APA Division 15 (Educational Psychology) for subsidizing the reception before the MotSIG meeting at the upcoming AERA meeting in New York. We look forward to seeing all MotSIG members at the SIG meeting and social hour on Wednesday, March 26! Vote in 2008 MotSIG Officer Election Hello everyone. The time has come to cast your votes for officers for the SIG Motivation for the 2008-2010 term. Thank you to everyone who nominated candidates and to those who have agreed to stand for election. All SIG members in good standing, including student members, fully paid in SIG dues, are entitled to vote for SIG officers. AERA will not allow anyone to send attachments to the listserv, therefore, I have reproduced the list of nominees in each category at the end of this message. I am asking you to record your votes in a Word file and return them to me as an attachment. Please vote for one candidate in each category and return your response to my alternate email address: LAnderman@ehe.osu.edu My intention is to print the attachments and delete the originating messages, thus rendering your votes anonymous, after which they will be counted by my graduate student assistant. The deadline for responding is Friday February 1st, 2008. -Lynley AERA SIG MOTIVATION IN EDUCATION Choose one for each office. Chair of SIG Motivation Program Chair of SIG Motivation Treasurer of SIG Motivation 2008 Graduate Student Travel Awards
Graduate student members of the SIG who have been accepted with a first-authored presentation for this year's conference are eligible to apply for either a SIG travel award or the Paul Pintrich Memorial Award. All SIG members, please consider making a donation to the student award fund. Please make your checks out to the Motivation SIG and send your donations
for student travel and Paul Pintrich memorial award no later than March 1 to the following address: To be considered for these awards, please send the following materials to me at anderman.2@osu.edu. Combine these documents in a single Word file, with your name as the file name. For the Pintrich Award, a short list will be created based on the original external reviews; finalists will then have their proposals read by a panel of senior SIG members. DUE DATE for applications: January 25th Lynley Hello everyone. As we prepare for this year's conference, it is time to solicit nominations for the SIG elections. As noted in our bylaws, the current officers' two-year terms end at the conference. Therefore, I am seeking nominations for each of the following positions: Chair All members in good standing of both AERA and the SIG are eligible for nomination. Self-nominations are encouraged. Please email your nominations to me at anderman.2@osu.edu no later than January 11th, 2008. Thank you for your continued support of the SIG. Lynley Registration and Hotels for AERA Our colleague and SIG member, AnneMarie Conley, wrote to inform us that the
Hotel reservation system for NYC opened yesterday [Dec. 13]. Importantly, she noted
that the prices through the AERA system are quite good relative to other
venues and that the hotels are likely to fill-up fast. In order to see the
prices, visit here. Also, the advanced registration will go on through February 15th. It's worth
it. All the best and happy holidays, Avi |