AERA SIG ATL/LS Best Student Paper Award

SIG ATL/LS is pleased to announce the Best Student Paper Award.

At each AERA, the combined SIGs will announce up to two awards for best paper presented at AERA in which the lead author is a student. The student will receive the award at the combined SIG business meeting. This award was established in 2006.

The student author of winning paper(s) will receive a $250 honorarium, and papers will be posted on the SIG website.

Criteria for selection

Any type of paper appropriate for presentation at AERA can be considered for the award. Papers will be judged on a 5-point scale using the following criteria:

(a) Significance of problem or topic (originality, choice of problem, importance of issues, contribution to education);
(c) Literature foundation (theoretical/conceptual/practical frameworks, rationale, literature review, grounding);
(d) Research methods and execution (research design, methods, rigor, use of evidence, quality of data sources, adequacy);
(e) Conclusions and interpretations (significance of conclusions; implications for research, practice, policy; development of ideas; relationship of conclusions to findings; generalizability or usefulness of findings or concepts);
(f) Quality of writing, clarity, logic, organization;
(g) Overall recommendation.

Application process

Eligibility:
A paper accepted to AERA in which the lead author is a student member of SIG-ATL and/or SIG-LS or any student paper accepted to a session sponsored by SIG ATL/LS. Each student can only submit one paper for consideration per year. Students who have been awarded the SIG ATL/LS Best Student Paper Award may not submit another paper for consideration in the year immediately following their award. Papers may not have been published elsewhere, but may be submitted for review.

Submission guidelines:
1. Papers submitted for consideration should be full papers (not the paper proposal submitted to AERA).
2. Papers should be written in APA format.
3. Papers should not exceed 10,000 words (or about 30 pages).
4. Email a copy of your paper in PDF or MS Word format to SIG ATL/LS award committee chair (mimi.recker at usu.edu)
5. Please include the following information on the paper's cover sheet:

Name
Degree program
Year in the program
Advisor's name
Institution
Mailing address
Email
Phone number

6. Please omit identifying information from all pages of the manuscript other than the cover page.

Timeline

August: Student submits paper proposal to AERA. No additional action is necessary at this time.
November: Student is notified of acceptance of paper for AERA conference.
10 March: Student submits final paper to award committee chair for consideration by the same deadline that AERA requires for final upload of papers.
Early April: Award winners announced to students.
April Annual meeting: Students receive award at SIG meeting.

Award committee and reviewers

Dr. Mimi Recker, Chair	Utah State University (mimi.recker at usu.edu)
Dr. Victor Lee	Utah State University
Dr. Chrystalla Mouza	University of Delaware
Dr. Joe Polman	University of Missouri, St Louis
Dr. Iris Tabak	Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

Please email the award committee chair if you are interested in being a reviewer.

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