Call for the NCME 2011 Alicia Cascallar Award for An Outstanding Paper by an Early Career Scholar

The Alicia Cascallar Award for an Outstanding Paper by an Early Career Scholar has been established to honor Alicia’s professional commitment and accomplishments and to continue her practice of mentoring and encouraging promising new scholars in the area of educational measurement. The award will be given to an early career scholar(s) who presented an outstanding paper at the most recent Annual Meeting.  A cash award, a citation, and a waiver of NCME conference fees for the following year will be provided as partial support for an early career member(s) of NCME to travel to the annual meeting. The award will be presented at the NCME Annual Meeting in 2011 in New Orleans.

Eligibility

To have presented a paper at the most recent (2010) NCME meeting in a paper session or as part of a symposium or panel discussion. The author(s) must be an early career member of NCME (received their doctoral degree within 5 years of the annual meeting).

Nomination

Nominations must include the following items:

  1. A letter of nomination from a professional colleague who is a member in good standing of NCME or self-nomination by an NCME member
  2. The candidate’s (or candidates’) current curriculum vitae
  3. At least two additional letters of recommendation
  4. All endorsements of the paper should list the reasons why this candidate’s (or candidates’) paper represents an important contribution to the field of applied measurement
  5. An electronic copy of the nominated paper
  6. For multi-authored papers, the candidate must be the first author and must provide a statement that defines his/her contributions to the paper. All other co-authors must provide a statement indicating that the first author was responsible for at least 75% of the effort.

The nominator and the nominee agree that this work will not be nominated for a similar award in AERA that will be given during the 2010 Annual Meeting.

Nominations should be submitted by e-mail or by mail by November 1, 2010.

Cathy Wendler, Chair (cwendler@ets.org)
Alicia Cascallar Award Committee
Educational Testing Service
Rosedale Road   MS 09-R
Princeton, NJ  08541

For Additional Information:  Go to the NCME Website or e-mail cwendler@ets.org  

Contributions to the fund can be made to: The Alicia Cascallar Memorial Fund/PACF, 15 Princess Road, Lawrenceville, NJ 08648