Annual Review of Fellows' Progress

Portfolio Contents

An important component of the AQM program is the Annual Review of Fellows' Progress.  Below is a description of the portfolio for this review that the faculty recently developed. 

7 parts

1. List of courses completed during the year (include department, course title and number, instructor, grade received)

Fall:
Winter:
Spring:

2. Conferences

Presentations (title and abstract)
Attended

3. Research papers (if any have been submitted for publication, indicate status such as "submitted", "revise and resubmit", "accepted", "in press", "published")

4. Exams and paper requirements (indicate date passed, or date of completion planned)
Education fellows:


ED299 Paper
Qualifying Exam
Advancement to Candidacy (oral defense of dissertation proposal)
Dissertation
Psychology fellows:
C-exams
Advancement to Candidacy (oral defense of dissertation proposal)
Dissertation

5. Grants, awards, or any other significant academic/professional accomplishments

6. Personal statement #1:

Research - Progress and future plans (analogous to professional "Statement of Achievement and Intent") (maximum of 3 single-spaced pages)

7. Personal statement #2:

Teaching -- Teaching philosophy and experience (maximum of 2 single-spaced pages) (perhaps mainly for students farther along in the program?)

Dates and Deadlines:

Portfolio submitted:  May 22
Review by core faculty:  week of May 25
Evaluation letters prepared:  week of June 1
Fellows meet with advisors to discuss evaluation: week of June 8

Going to a Conference

Being a graduate or undergraduate student interested in research, questions arise about participating in conferences.

In April, we have the annual AERA conference. Here, some of our AQM professors make the following suggestions. However, their answers do apply to just about any research conference:

It is suggested to look at 1) The program for the NCME meeting that happens concurrently with AERA. It's a lot smaller and has many interesting measurement sessions (from high flying IRT models to alternativeperformance assessments). 2) Sessions sponsored by AERA division D and 3) The list of Presidential invited sessions usually highlighted in a separate section and through the program.

Use the online search capabilities to search the program for keywords you may be interested in. There's plenty of interesting quantitative / measurement / assessment work that happens outside the 3 areas listed above, but it is hard to find it in the mammoth phone directory/printed program.

Other than that make sure to use the online search capabilities to search the program for keywords you may be interested in. In addition to searching the program on keywords, also search on names of methodologists and researchers whose work you are interested in (e.g., people who have written pieces on assessment that you thought were particularly insightful; people whose work you would like to learn more about, etc.)

Finally: network!. Don't hang out just among students from your program. Go to sessions and talk to people doing work you are interested in. Attend a AERA/NCME session for students (poster or orientation, "new directions" type).

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