2008 AERA Annual Meeting will be held in New York, March 24-28, 2008 The theme is Research on Schools, Neighborhoods, and Communities: Toward Civic Responsibility.

Previous Annual Meetings

2007 AERA Annual Meeting will be held in Chicago, April 9-13, 2007 The theme is The World of Educational Quality

2006 AERA Annual Meeting was held in San Francisco, April 7-11, 2006

2005 AERA Annual Meeting was held in Montreal, April 11 -15, 2005

2004 AERA Annual Meeting was held in San Diego, California

2003 AERA Annual Meeting was held in Chicago, Illinois on April 21-25, 2003. The theme was "Accountability for Educational Quality: Shared Responsibility."
The program followed in 2003: SIG pre-conference program and a SIG conference program.

2002 AERA Annual Meeting was held in New Orleans, Louisiana on April 1-5, 2002. The theme was validity and value in education research. Mary C. Dalmau provided information regarding program and plans. The program followed in 2002:

Information about earlier work on program and plans for 2002.

2001 AERA Annual Meeting was held in Seattle, Washington on April 10-14, 2001. The SIG held a number of informal social gatherings throughout the conference that were very well-attended and offered SIG members a chance to talk about their work, their recent activities and to continue to develop our community by meeting new people interested in self-study. Check back here for information regarding next year's conference.

The SIG held a successful pre-conference event. The papers from the pre-conference are still available. See the 2001 AERA Pre-Conference Papers.

The survey conducted during the AERA 2001 Business Meeting is also available.

ALSO FOR YOUR INFORMATION

CRITERIA USED BY REVIEWERS FOR EVALUATING SUBMISSIONS: Members have told us that it is helpful to know the criteria used by reviewers for evaluating both individual and symposia submissions:

INDIVIDUAL SUBMISSIONS
Criterion	Scale	Value Description
Choice of problem/Topic	1-5	Insignificant/Critically Significant
Theoretical framework	1-5	Not Articulated/Well Articulated
Self study methodology	1-5	Not Articulated/Clearly Articulated
Evidence/data	1-5	Sparse/Well Documented
Conclusions/Interpretations	1-5	Ungrounded/Well-Grounded
Quality of writing organization	1-5	Unorganized/Clear
Contribution to self-study discourse	1-5	Minimal/Significant
Contribution to teacher education	1-5	Minimal/Significant
Membership appeal	1-5	Small Audience/Large Audience
Would you attend this?	1-5	No/Yes
Overall recommendation	1-5	Not Acceptable/ Definitely accept?

SESSION SUBMISSIONS
Criterion	Scale	Value Description
Choice of problem/Topic	1-5	Insignificant/Critically Significant
Theoretical framework	1-5	Not Articulated/Well Articulated
Self study methodology	1-5	Not Articulated/Clearly Articulated
Evidence/data	1-5	Sparse/Well Documented
Conclusions/Interpretations	1-5	Ungrounded/Well-Grounded
Quality of writing organization	1-5	Unorganized/Clear
Contribution to Self-Study discourse	1-5	Minimal/Significant
Symposium Session Design	1-5	Little interaction/little dialogue -> Interactive - serious dialogue
Membership appeal	1-5	Small Audience/Large Audience
Would you attend this?	1-5	No/Yes
Overall recommendation	1-5	Not Acceptable/ Definitely accept?