AARE Association Broadcast E-mails 2007

ABOUT THESE MESSAGES 2007

1. Addresses
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2. Purpose
   These broadcast messages are primarily intended to briefly inform AARE members about Association events and achievements which are more fully documented on AARE website.
3. Security
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   Attachments could be virus infected or be spoofs from someone pretending to be AARE.
4. Frequency
   It is intended to issue messages at approximately fortnightly intervals, but at peak periods of Association activity they may become more frequent if requested by AARE Executive Members.
5. Permission
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6. Replying
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7. Contact AARE
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The Broadcast Messages start below. (The messages are sorted with the latest first. Note we use the day/month/year date format.)

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Broadcast Message 12/11/2007

From
Debra Cunningham
Honorary Secretary
Australian Association for Research in Education

CONSTITUTIONAL VOTE

Members are reminded that voting about the proposed new Constitution for AARE closes on Wednesday 21 November. All members have been mailed a package about the proposal, including postal voting papers. Voting will also be undertaken at the AGM in Fremantle, but if you're not planning to attend that, please send in a postal vote.

EXECUTIVE ELECTION

All members for whom AARE Office has an email address have been sent an email from aare@v4votedirecting them to a website where they can cast an electronic vote for next year's AARE Executive. Voting closes on Friday 16 November. If you haven't received the email or have had difficulty using the electronic poll, please contact the AARE Office immediately so postal voting papers can be sent to you.

SHARING KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

AARE is making arrangements to transmit vision and sound of keynote speakers on Monday to Thursday of conference to members who can't get to Fremantle.

If you want to receive these broadcasts you need to register your email address with the AARE Office. If you want further information please see the advert on AARE website and the slide show that is there also.

If you want to receive the broadcasts of the keynote speakers presentations please send an email to pjeff@aare.edu.au IMMEDIATELY. Bookings will close on Friday 16^th November.

Send a new message with WEBEX as the SUBJECT.

DIETS

This is the last day for you to submit diet information because we have to send it to the caterers.

Make sure you send a separate message with the SUBJECT - DIET. One person used "reply to" to tell us she is allergic to all fish. We found her message by accident!

HELP US TO HELP YOU. DO NOT USE "REPLY TO". PLEASE WRITE A NEW MESSAGE WITH DIET AS THE SUBJECT HEADER. We don't want to cause harm to anyone by accident.

AARE Office
AARE phone +61 3 59649031
Thousands of full text research papers are available on-line at www.aare.edu.au

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Broadcast Message 3/11/2007

DO NOT USE "REPLY TO" FOR THESE MESSAGES. WE WANT TO READ YOUR COMMENTS BUT PLEASE SEND THEM IN A NEW MESSAGE WITH A NEW SUBJECT HEADING [DIET in this case] TO aare@aare.edu.au

DIETS INFORMATION NEEDED

So that we can inform the various caterers about any medical, health or religious dietary restrictions, please write a short email to aare@aare.edu.au stating your dietary restrictions.

 

AARE Office
aare@aare.edu.au
AARE phone +61 3 59649031
Thousands of full text research papers are available on-line at www.aare.edu.au

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Broadcast Message 30/10/2007

Please do not reply to these broadcast messages using "reply to" as all such replies are deleted unread due to the large number of "vacation messages" we receive.

2007 CONFERENCE TIMETABLE ON WEBSITE

After an astonishing amount of hard work relating content and other desires, Ruth has finished the compilation of the timetable for the 2007 conference based on keywords and inputs from the SIGs and Committee. It is available for inspection on the AARE web site. Go to http://www.aare.edu.au/conf2007/index.htm, look for timetable under Abstracts, down load the Excel spreadsheet and find your paper/s and those of 600 others for over the four days. The days are coloured for ease of reading but the spreadsheet is large and you will need to scroll down and across to see it all. Use Excel search tools to find details in the timetable. The timetable is now being converted to text for the Program Book and printing.

LAST CHANCE DINNER TICKETS

Some people missed out on booking for the conference dinner. The Convenor has released 40 additional tickets for sale. Purchase these on-line using the registration form. Some Perth people claim that Fraser's Restaurant in King's Park Perth is the best in the west! Some go even further in enthusiastic claims. Don't miss a research opportunity, book now.

REGISTRATION

If you have not already registered and paid, please do it NOW!

CHECK THE WEB SITE

It is important that you check AARE web site frequently. Updates and notices are placed there for all members and conferees.

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE POLL

Please vote on line using V4Vote. All members received an invitation by email.

CONSTITUTIONAL REVISION

Please fill in and return your [paper] ballot material for the constitution amendments.

 

Peter Jeffery
AARE Newsletter Editor and Website Manager
AARE Executive Member
AARE phone +61 3 59649031

Thousands of full text research papers are available on-line at www.aare.edu.au

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Broadcast Message 20/10/2007

DO NOT USE "REPLY TO" AS ALL SUCH MESSAGES ARE DELETED UN-READ DUE TO THE NUMBER OF AUTOMATIC "OUT OF OFFICE NOTICES" WE RECEIVE AFTER EACH BROADCAST EMAIL.

ACCOMMODATION FREMANTLE CLOSING

Accommodation houses hold rooms for the conference at a special AARE discount rate for a time. All rooms will shortly be released to the public and rates will resume normal levels.

BOOK YOUR ACCOMMODATION NOW THROUGH LIDO ON AARE WEBSITE. http://www.aare.edu.au/conf2007/index.htm [LIDO]

AARE SHARES RESEARCH ADVERTISING -- FREE OFFER

We have prepared an advertisement to help people who cannot come to conference in person to see and hear our keynote speakers via webex. The advert has already been sent to many education departments and through members we hope it will be sent to many other desk-bound colleagues. Please get the pdf file from the AARE website [the link is just under the link to Conference Abstracts] and and send it attached to an email to colleagues in Australia and overseas. This is good spam! If every member passes the advert to 2 people we will reach over 3,000 people with our free offer to share research!

ABSTRACTS FOR AARE 2007 CONFERENCE

Corrections have been made to the website listing of the abstracts. The Abstract Book is at the printer. Late withdrawals will be reflected on the website but not in the printed book.

AARE 2007 CONFERENCE PROGRAM

Preparation of the Program for 600 presentations in 4 days is about 50% complete. We hope that by the end of next week we will be able to tell you that the draft program is available on the website. Earlier than that we will publish on the website the AARE 2007 Conference Timetable [the outline of the 4 days].

GUIDELINES FOR PRESENTERS

On AARE website at the following location are some general guidelines to assist you to get maximum value from the conference. http://www.aare.edu.au/conf2007/guidelines.pdf

Maps and other information will be in the Program in the conference bags that each delegate will receive when registering in person at the conference.

AARE CONSTITUTION

Printing is complete for the mailing of materials for members to consider and to vote on this matter. The mailing will be posted to members early next week.

AARE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ELECTIONS for 2008

Preparations have been made to allow a ballot by secure and private electronic polling to be conducted. The contractor is testing the refined system during this week-end so that the ballot can commence next week.

AARE BOOKS OF ACCOUNT WITH AUDITOR

A compendium of financial records on paper and in digital format has been compiled, reconciled and sent to AARE's Auditor for analysis and approval. The audited balance sheet will be presented by the Hon. Treasurer at the AGM in Fremantle.

AARE Office
aaref@aare.edu.au
AARE phone +61 3 59649031

Thousands of full text research papers are available on-line at www.aare.edu.a

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Broadcast Message 12/10/2007

Abstracts of papers, symposia and workshops for 2007 conference - published. All abstracts for presentations at AARE 2007 Conference Fremantle are available on AARE website. http://www.aare.edu.au/07pap/07abs.htm They are also being printed for distribution in conference satchels from the registration desk at University of Notre Dame Australia. The book also gets lodged in the National Library of Australia and many other similar places as an abiding record of research work. In addition, the abstracts are also indexed in the Australian Education Index [ACER Cunningham Library].

AARE Conference 2007 Program

Final work on the program of presentations and activities at the forthcoming annual conference has begun. All presenters will be sent an email [to the email address they put on their proposal] informing them of their placement in the program. A broadcast message like this will be sent out when the draft program is available on-line.

AARE Constitution

The Association has embarked on a process of constitutional change. The relevant documents are being printed and posted to all financial members as required by the existing constitution. In addition, the documents but not the ballot paper, are available on line at http://www.aare.edu.au/exec/constit/constit.htm

AARE NEWS #60 October 2007

The final newsletter for 2007 is being printed and will be mailed to all members early next week [week 42]. It is also published on-line at http://www.aare.edu.au/news/index.htm

AARE Office
aare@aare.edu.au
AARE phone +61 3 59649031
Thousands of full text research papers are available on-line at www.aare.edu.au

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Broadcast Message 21/9/2007

Please do not use "reply to" for these messages.

The Minister for Education, Science & Training has announced the membership of the RQF panels.

Panel 11, which covers Education as well as Law, Social Work, Journalism and Librarianship will include:

• Prof Fazal Rizvi (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
• Prof John Hattie (University of Auckland, NZ)
• Prof Peter Goodyear (University of Sydney)
• Dr Dahle Suggett (Victoria Department of Education and Early Childhood)

More details can be found at http://www.dest.gov.au/Ministers/Media/Bishop/2007/09/B001180907.asp

Also, the revised version of the RQF Specifications was released today.
See http://www.dest.gov.au/Ministers/Media/Bishop/2007/09/B002180907.asp

This announcement is great news for AARE members. Prof. Peter Goodyear, the current AARE Research Development Coordinator has considerable experience with the UK RAE and has been part, indeed led, many of the deliberations around the various discussion papers. We also have AARE Past President and 2006 AARE Radford Lecturer Prof. Fazal Rizvi on the panel. Prof. John Hattie is a former member of AARE and was Convenor of the NZARE-AARE Joint Conference in Auckland 2003. So congratulations to Fazal, Peter and John and we await the next developments in the RQF.

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The Australian Educational Researcher [AER]

The August issue of AER is a Special Edition on middle schooling guest edited by Dr Lisa Hunter. Please see the following link http://www.aare.edu.au/aer/contents.htm to see the issue online.

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Refereeing Progress Report and Conference News

Only fifteen [15] people are still waiting for referee's reports on their work for the Fremantle Conference.

Posting of Abstracts for the conference on AARE website is up to the end of the "Zs" [complete except for refereed papers' abstracts which are now being added]. Symposia have not been loaded as some parts of them are waiting on refereeing. Work has started on preparing the 300 pages Abstract Book for printing for the satchels for the delegates.

A start has been made on the Program Book for the conference. The time-table will be published on-line before it is incorporated in the Program, printed and distributed via satchels.

AARE Office will write to each individual presenter about their program placement but we will also broadcast an announcement before that so people can check their program position and other matters.

People who have not registered [paid registration] may not yet be added to this broadcasts list.

Dinner Bookings URGENT REMINDER

If you are planning to go to the dinner which is to be held at Fraser's Restaurant Kings Park you must book before 8th October 2007 as numbers have to be finalized then. Go to http://www.aare.edu.au/conf2007/index.htm and then book and pay on-line at http://www.aare.edu.au/secure/conf2007.htm

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Betty Watts and Early Career Researcher Awards Deadline

The closing date for applications for these two awards is 30 October, 2007. For details regarding these awards please see http://www.aare.edu.au/awards/index.htm

Life Member Award

The closing date for nominations for 2007 has been extended till 30th October 2007. For details see http://www.aare.edu.au/awards/life.htm

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Academic Positions:

School of Education and Professional Studies (Gold Coast campus),
Faculty of Education, Griffith University
Literacy and English Education (Primary/Middle Years) , Lecturer/Senior Lecturer Literacy and English Education
Continuing , Full Time , Gold Coast , VRN EPS16668/07 , Closing Date 10.10.07

Teacher Education, Teacher Professional Knowledge , Director, Professional Experience Office
Fixed-Term ( Three Years ) , Full Time , Gold Coast , VRN EPS16674/07 , Closing Date 10.10.07

AARE Office
aare@aare.edu.au
AARE phone +61 3 59649031
Thousands of full text research papers are available on-line at www.aare.edu.au

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Broadcast E-mail 15/9/2007

Remember, "replies to" these braodcasts are deleted unread!

REFEREE REPORTS WANTED -- URGENT!

Forty-five [45] people are waiting for reports to be lodged on their work. Most of these only need one referee to report for the process to be completed for each paper. Then AARE Office can send out copies of all reports [minus identification of the referees] to all presenters who submitted papers for refereeing. The collection of abstracts on the web site can be completed also at that time.

CHECK THE WEBSITE

Please regularly look at the AARE Fremantle Conference web site for news and changes http://www.aare.edu.au/conf2007/index.htm

[Make sure you "refresh" the page to see changes since last time you accessed the site]. Shortly we will be posting information on University of Notre Dame Australia [venue] and other matters. We will not fill your email boxes with attachments and notices about conference details. We post them on the website for you to go and read when you want.

MEETINGS AT CONFERENCE

At about this time every year people start arranging meeting on many things during conference. We appeal to you to please fill in the "meetings form" http://www.aare.edu.au/conf2007/meetng07.rtf . We ask this so that the committee and the person who makes up the Program can include your meeting in the Program and make sure that time and space is made available. An entry in the Program lets everyone know that your meeting is on. We try to avoid lots of last minute bits of paper being circulated via satchels etc. Note: Satchels will be collated at AARE Office on 5th November 2007 and delivered by truck across the Nullabor to NDA for delegates. This means that any inserts must be at PO Box 71 Coldstream by 2^nd November 2007.

AARE Office
aare@aare.edu.au
AARE phone +61 3 59649031
Thousands of full text research papers are available on-line at www.aare.edu.au

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Broadcast E-maail 8/9/2007

Please do not use "reply to" for these messages. All such replies get mixed into the vacation/out of office bounces from over 100 members' machines. [Over 100 members out of 1000 on the list are on vacation or out of office at any point of time]. To reply -- just start a new message to aare@aare.edu.au and say what you wish in that.

REFEREEING CONTINUES

We received just over 100 offers of refereeing assistance from AARE members in response to the appeal issued in the last broadcast message. That is hugely gratifying and helpful. Thanks to all! No one sent in a "date of conference correction" though we are sure many readers would have noticed that the last message said Fremantle was 2006 when clearly it is November 2007.

AARE Office immediately classified all volunteers' specialities using the AARE list of keywords [see note below]. We sent out specific review requests related to the particular papers for Fremantle'07 that are pending reports, to the appropriate new volunteers and many have now completed their reports on the works they were sent. Some papers perhaps look daunting; we have offered the abstracts of some papers to 12 or even 15 people as potential referees but not enough have agreed to referee for the paper to be completed and/or accepted.

Quite a few referees' reports are still owing from members who agreed some time ago to do a paper -- but their reports have not arrived. We wait 3 weeks from acceptance of the refereeing task by a volunteer, before prompting and also asking another person if they will do the job. We do not "hassle" volunteers after they have accepted the task except for one or two prompts. So you can see that accepting a refereeing task and then defaulting for whatever reason, is a problem for completion of the whole set of papers submitted for processing.

Many thanks to all who are assisting in the process.

The statistics now are ---

283 papers proposed for refereeing for Fremantle'07
205 papers submitted for refereeing
135 papers now fully refereed [increase of 24 completions in this past week]
70 papers waiting on reports from referees. All have been "placed" with referees.
We are still seeking referees for some of these 70 papers.

AARE NEWS OCTOBER 2007

The final issue of AARE NEWS for 2007 is in preparation. The copy date for issue #60 is 1st October. On that date the editor receives "stories" in MS Word from all members of AARE Executive and some other persons so that the issue can be put together [edited and designed] for the printer and the on-line version. The time-line for this issue is always critical because we desire to get information to members before many leave their offices and head for Fremantle for the annual conference. We aim to get the issue to members by the end of October with all the last minute details of Fremantle'07 and anything else that members might need to know when they set off to attend the Annual General Meeting.

AARE LIST OF KEYWORDS

This list is used in creating the programs for conferences and throughout AARE publications so that we have minimal clashes in content presentations. The list contains the names of AARE SIGs so that papers can be placed with SIGs for programming help and for presentation streams. AARE Office originally checked all the keywords against the Australian Thesaurus of Education Descriptors [ACER Cunningham Library] as it is academically useful to have AARE's words fit in with agreed terminology that will be used in the Australian Education Index [ACER Cunningham Library] for eventual bibliographic classifications world wide. We are at present checking the status of all keywords in relation to the Thesaurus [it changes over time] and likewise will check any new words proposed for inclusion in AARE's list, for Thesaurus compliance.

Authors are encouraged to use the keywords published by AARE in preference to others. Authors can check terminology against the Thesaurus on-line at any time at ACER Cunningham Library at http://cunningham.acer.edu.au/mulcgi/index.htm

AARE OFFICE

aare@aare.edu.au
AARE phone +61 3 59649031
A huge resource for education -- thousands of full text research papers are available on-line at www.aare.edu.au

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Broadcast E-mail: 3/9/2007

REFEREEING PROGRESS

AARE 2006 Conference - Fremantle attracted refereed papers as follows:

283 papers proposed for refereeing
205 papers submitted for refereeing
111 papers now fully refereed
94 papers in process of refereeing [waiting on reports from referees]

More referees are needed for the following subjects in particular:

Religious Education
School renewal and pedagogical improvement
Motivation and self-concept
Learning and Teaching
Educational change and Innovation
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education
Literacy and English
Eduactional Leadership
Education policy
Multi-cultural Education
Assessment
Mathematics
Research methods [history]
Pre-service Teacher Education
Sociocultural and Activity Theory
Science and Environmental Education
ICT

Contact aare@aare.edu.au if you are willing to assist.

AARE Office
aare@aare.edu.au
AARE phone +61 3 59649031
Thousands of full text research papers are available on-line at www.aare.edu.au

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Broadcast E-mail: 25/08/2007

EARLY-BIRD REGISTRATION CLOSING:

As is customary at this time every year, members are hereby reminded that the early-bird discount registration rate for AARE 2007 Conference - Fremantle 26th November to 29th November closes at midnight on 31st August 2007.

At that time the registration rates will revert to the "normal" rate which is calculated to return all the funds needed to operate the conference by sharing all costs. At that time the early-bird discount will be removed and all rates will go up to "normal". The on-line payment registration form will allow only the higher non-discount rates from 1st September 2007.

Easy to do:

It is easy for members to pay their registration before or on the due date. Go to http://www.aare.edu.au/secure/conf2007_early.htm and fill out the details to show what options you wish to have in the range of choices. When you have completed the form, click on submit and complete credit card details. Tick the box to to make sure the machine sends you an email tax invoice [receipt]. AARE accepts Mastercard and Visa but not Diners or Amex. AARE Office gets a copy of the details of your registration choices and payment but does not see your credit card details. The transaction is secure EFTPOS via DirectOne and your bank. Nearly all registrants pay on-line quickly and easily with full security.

Can't do on-line:

If your university requires an invoice before raising a cheque, print the registration form, fill it out and give it to your administrative assistant immediately. The Early Bird Discount rates form will not be available from 1st September. Processing of payments by hand generated invoices and cheques will take some time. Money Orders from post offices should be pinned to a print out of the form and posted to AARE, Box 71, Coldstream, 3770, Victoria, Australia. Money must be received by mid September to qualify for the early- bird rates.

Membership status:

The issue of whether people are members or not always comes up at this time. People who joined AARE at the time of the Adelaide conference are members now. AARE membership is a full 12 months from the date of joining. Non- member rates include the cost of a membership fee because AARE conference is only for members. If in doubt about membership status phone AARE Office 03 59649031 and you will be informed immediately. Non-members who pay at membership rate will be invoiced for the membership fee before the conference registration becomes effective.

Paper still in refereeing:

Some people are waiting on refereeing to be completed. We can't hurry the referees. When referees do the volunteer work is up to them. If you can't register because you are waiting on a refereeing accepted notice from AARE Office, special arrangements will be made individually. Contact the office if in doubt. Don't email, life is too short, phone 0359649031.

ACADEMIC POSITIONS VACANT:

Academic Positions in the School of Education and Professional Studies, Faculty of Education, Griffith University, Gold Coast campus, Queensland, Australia. The closing date of the first three positions is: 29th August, 2007

• Mathematics Education , Senior Lecturer, Continuing , Full Time , Gold Coast:
• Sociology of Knowledge and Socio-Cultural Understandings of Education, Lecturer, Continuing , Full Time , Gold Coast
• Linguistics Education, and Primary/Middle Years Literacy Education, Lecturer, Continuing , Full Time , Gold Coast

The closing date for the senior positions is: 12^th September, 2007

• Education , Professor Continuing , Full Time , Gold Coast , VRN EPS16561/07 , Closing Date 12.09.07
  Please click on the blue text (link WR) for information on the position and selection criteria.
• Education,(Sociology/Social Psychology of Knowledge, Curriculum & Pedagogy) , Associate Professor Continuing , Full Time , Gold Coast , VRN EPS16560/07 , Closing Date 12.09.07

Please click on the blue text (link WR) for more information on the position and selection criteria.

For further information please visit: http://www.griffith.edu.au/hrm/employment/

AARE Office
AARE phone +61 3 59649031
Thousands of full text research papers are available on-line at www.aare.edu.au

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Broadcast E-mail 18/08/2007

Please do not use "reply to" to respond to these messages. See footnote.

FIRST FREMANTLE CONFERENCE 2007 ABSTRACTS PUBLISHED

Members will be pleased to know that the first batch of abstracts for the Fremantle conference is now available for study on AARE web site at http://www.aare.edu.au/07pap/07abs.htm

Please note that refereeing for many papers proposed for the conference is continuing as fast as the volunteer referees can do the academic work. Abstracts of papers still in refereeing processing are not listed in the abstracts on the web site at present. AARE Office will up-date the abstracts listing from time to time as papers now "in refereeing" are completed.

FREMANTLE CONFERENCE ACCOMMODATION

There was a strong response to the last broadcast message advising members to book accommodation in Fremantle for the AARE 2007 Conference.

Unfortunately towards the end of last week the LIDO web site broke down. It is now fixed and running again at
http://www.lido.com.au/online/default.aspx?id=aechdaem1277#
or you can get to the accommodation booking service [which also offers air travel booking service] via AARE web site - AARE 2007 Conference section - http://www.aare.edu.au/conf2007/index.htm

AARE places "holds" on blocks of accommodation at some hotels so members booking at those can ask for the AARE rate. "Room holds" are only kept by hotels until certain dates [well ahead of the conference], then the rooms are released to the public. Book early!

AARE books travel and accommodation for the conference keynote speakers and the first night's accommodation only, for members of the AARE Executive Committee [so that Executive members can attend the Executive Meeting in Fremantle on Saturday 25^th November]. AARE Executive members are responsible for the balance of their accommodation at the conference just as all members are required to book and pay for their own accommodation.

Members can book travel via Glenwood Travel http://www.glenwoodtravel.com.au [AARE's Travel agent] if they wish, but at your own personal or institutional expense. Neither Glenwood Travel nor AARE Office will book travel or accommodation on behalf of members/delegates for the conference.

NOMINATIONS FOR AARE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

In AARE NEWS #59 [the purple issue] a call for nominations was published. See AARE NEWS # 59 pp15 posted to all financial members, or see the on-line version http://www.aare.edu.au/news/index.htm where there is a form.

Expectations of Executive Committee Members are stated on the form but any member of the present Executive will be happy to elucidate, see http://www.aare.edu.au/exec/aareexec.htm . Nominations close with the Hon. Secretary, Debra Cunningham Debra.Cunningham@qct.edu.au by 28^th September.

Debra's fax is 07 3867 7248 or it can be posted to the address on the form.

Peter Jeffery
AARE Website Manager and AARE NEWS Editor
AARE Executive Member
AARE phone +61 3 59649031

Thousands of full text research papers are available on-line at www.aare.edu.au

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Broadcast E-Mail 11/08/2007

PLEASE DO NOT USE "REPLY TO" FOR THESE MESSAGES. See footnote.

ACCOMMODATION IN FREMANTLE

LIDO [see link on AARE Fremantle Conference 2007 web page] advises that accommodation reserved for AARE delegates will soon have to be released for the public to book. Hotels and apartments on "hold" are only held for a short time and then competition is allowed to reign freely - first come first served.

There is another conference being held in Fremantle at the same time as AARE 2007 so the pressure for accommodation will be intense. You are advised to select [via LIDO or directly with hotels etc.] and place a booking for your accommodation at the special AARE rates while you can [before the hold period ends].

Late bookers will probably be forced to commute from Perth daily.

AARE Office
AARE phone +61 3 59649031
Thousands of full text research papers are available on-line at www.aare.edu.au

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Broadcast E-Mail 27/07/2007

BAD NEWS --
AARE NEWS #59 DELAYED, URGENT DATES

Unfortunately AARE NEWS #59 JULY 2007 was delayed in preparation and is now delayed in printing. It contains date sensitive notices regarding AARE Awards. Please go to and down load the on-line version at -- http://www.aare.edu.au/news/index.htm

NEWS --
STUDENT TRAVEL AWARDS CLOSE 31st JULY

See AARE NEWS #59 for details.

GOOD NEWS --
PROGRESS ON REFEREEING of Full Papers for Fremantle 2007

AARE Office is working diligently with lots of volunteer referees scattered in many parts of Australia and a few locations overseas to get approx 200 papers accepted for refereeing and then actually read, assessed, commented upon and reported. When AARE Office has 3 reports on each paper the reports are made anonymous and sent to the authors for them to make amendments if they wish to heed the comments of referees. Twenty-eight papers have completed refereeing to date. 283 full papers were proposed for refereeing initially but some have failed to arrive. It is too late now to send papers for refereeing!

A total of 635 papers were proposed for presentation at Fremantle but 35 have been withdrawn or failed in refereeing [negative view of the situation], 600 presentations of research will be presented at Fremantle [positive view of the situation].

OTHER NEWS --
AARE-NZARE 2008 CONFERENCE Planning Committee

This group is meeting regularly using a mixture of face top face and webex meeting methods to prepare for the join conference in Brisbane. All AARE projects can be assisted world wide free by webex thanks to our sponsor. Contact pjeff@aare.edu.au if you want further information.

JOURNALS BANDING STUDY

This is in its final stages of data collection. Have your say by going to the on-line survey and completing it. Our combined inputs will make the DEST operation for our field more realistic than other research fields. http://www.newcastle.edu.au/forms/bandingsurvey/2/

AARE Office
aare@aare.edu.au
AARE phone +61 3 59649031
Thousands of full text research papers are available on-line at www.aare.edu.au

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Broadcast E-Mail 9/07/2007

Coming to your computer and your phone -----Thursday next..

Sid Bourke and Allyson Holbrook on the AARE SORTi - "Education Journals Banding Project". 12th JULY 2007 at the unusual time of 7.30pm AEST. [This time was chosen to assist our northern hemisphere colleagues].

The project will be fully explained and illustrated by Allyson and Sid's talk and slides. After a short presentation the researchers will answer your questions. You can question by phone or by text message.

• Enrol [free] by sending a request to pjeff@aare.edu.au
• You will be invited into the session by the webex machine.
• Webex is free to AARE [and our guests] and easy.
• Try Webex [free] before the event by contacting www.webex.com
• Join the "meeting" 15 minutes ahead of 7.30pm AESTready for a prompt commencement.

Please pass this message to all your colleagues in Australia and overseas.

Peter Jeffery
AARE Executive Member
pjeff@aare.edu.au
AARE phone +61 3 59649031
Thousands of full text research papers are available
on-line at www.aare.edu.au

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Broadcast E-Mail 2/7/2007

JOURNALS BANDING STUDY AND WEBEX MEETING

The RQF is going to happen in 2008 (regardless of the election), and journal banding is going to be used in some way as part of the process. It may simply be as additional information provided for the panel reading the umpteen papers submitted by researchers round the country, or in some more selective way.

Banding of journals in Education (which allows for small sub-areas to be recognised and given due weight) by the esteem of the collective wisdom of educational researcher and users is less likely to be subject to rapid change over time and more likely to recognise the wide range of research interests within Education. The alternative that DEST intends to use in other areas without journal banding in place is a small group (perhaps 3) of researchers who are members of CHASS or similar to recommend bands.

We recommend participation in the Journals Banding Study [go on line and complete the survey] also join the webcast and hear details from the researchers in person. Ask questions directly in the webex meeting. Contact pjeff@aare.edu.au to get an invite to the webex meeting. The webex meeting is 7.30pm Thursday 12 ^th July [next week].

Peter Jeffery
AARE Executive Member
pjeff@aare.edu.au
AARE phone +61 3 59649031
Thousands of full text research papers are available on-line at www.aare.edu.au

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Broadcast E-mail 26/6/2007

SORTI/AARE Journal Banding Study

As part of the information required by Research Assessments being undertaken around the world, journals are ranked for quality. This is also the case for the Australian exercise, known as the Research Quality Framework (RQF).

Because it is important that the educational community be involved in determining the quality banding of journals to be used, we have set up an on-line questionnaire in which respondents are asked to indicate the 10 journals that they believe to be of the highest quality in their areas of interest within Education.

This approach has been applauded by DEST as much preferable to using small panels of 'experts' to determine journal rankings. In the absence of a study such as the one being conducted by the SORTI/AARE collaboration, small panels will have to be used to band journals for other disciplines. In a particularly wide field such as Education, it would be particularly difficult to sustain the validity of such a small-scale approach.

Currently the list we offer to respondents within the on-line questionnaire consists of 907 journals with some form of refereeing process spread across 26 areas of interest within Education. The journal list is distinctly international, with approximately only 10% that can be identified as distinctly 'Australian'.

To discuss this and more with the researchers apply to pjeff@aare.edu.au to join the webcast/workshop via webex on 12^th July.

Please advise your overseas colleagues of this work and ask them to join in.

To complete the survey on-line go to http://www.newcastle.edu.au/forms/bandingsurvey/2/

AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH DIRECTORS in EDUCATION NETWORK

The next meeting of the ARDEN network will take place in Sydney on Thursday 2^nd August, beginning at 10 and ending around 3.30.

A main item of business will be a session with Hilary Charlesworth, chair of RQF Panel 11, at which she will be looking for feedback from us on the panel specific guidelines (to be released in July).

Alison Lee has kindly offered to help host the meeting at UTS (Broadway campus - very close to Central Station). Further details to follow. RSVPs to Kashmira Dave kdave@edfac.usyd.edu.au by 10 July please.

If you are not responsible for research management/leadership in your school/faculty, please pass this on to the appropriate person and let Kashmira know who should be on our list.

Peter Goodyear
(AARE Exec: Research development)

AARE Office
aare@aare.edu.au
AARE phone +61 3 59649031
Thousands of full text research papers are available on-line at www.aare.edu.au

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Broadcast 19/06/2007

Do not use "reply to" for these messages as all such are deleted unread. Start a new message with a new subject to contact AARE Office or theExecutive members listed below.

New Award!!

Indigenous Post Graduate Student Travel Award In order to support the participation and inclusion of Indigenous Australians into the educational research community, a new award will be made in 2007. In addition to being an Indigenous Australian, the successful applicant will meet the general requirements for Post Graduate Travel Awards. This requires you to have already submitted a paper. See website for details: http://www.aare.edu.au/pgrad/pgst.htm

Closing Date: Tuesday 31st July.

Time Extension for Post Graduate Student Travel Award Applications

Please note that the due date for all general Post Graduate Student Travel Awards has been extended until Tuesday 31^st July.

Betty Watts Award

A consultation process has begun to review the eligibility criteria for the Betty Watts award in order to increase participation and inclusion of Indigenous Australians into the education research community. The criteria will not change for 2007. Please see website for details: http://www.aare.edu.au/bwatts/index.htm

Early Career Researcher Award

The closing date for this award is 30th October. Further details available from the website: http://www.aare.edu.au/early/index.htm

Please contact the AARE office or Julie White if you have any queries aare@aare.edu.au or julie.white@latrobe.edu.au

BANDING STUDY REMINDER

Write to Peter Jeffery pjeff@aare.edu.au if you would like to join the workshop on 12^th July 2007 to hear about the results so far of the Journals banding Project from the researchers Sid Bourke and Allyson Holbrook. Peter needs your email to invite you into the free Webex meeting.

Also please assist AARE - SORTI and the whole educational research industry by completing the on-line survey and encourage your colleagues overseas to do likewise. Full details are on AARE website in various places including "Forthcoming Workshops" and the log of broadcast messages.

AARE NEWS #59 July 2007.

This issue will be in preparation soon and entries close on 1st July 2007. We intend publishing reports on the Focus'07 Conference just concluded and much other information about AARE activities for members. Members are invited to contribute short news items about their involvement in educational research activities. Please send items in MS Word attached to a message to pjeff@aare.edu.au

PROGRESS ON AARE 2007 CONFERENCE - Fremantle

The Committee is very busy with arrangements for a stimulating event. See AARE NEWS #59 for more detail. At present AARE office is contacting 3 referees for each of 280 full papers which are listed for full refereeing treatment. If members want to volunteer service as a referee, please write to ruth@aare.edu.au giving up-dated information on your fields of expertise.

Refereeing fees are used to defray the administrative costs of the refereeing exercise for those members requesting the service, they are not charged out to all delegates as part of the conference registration fee.

AARE OFFICE

AARE phone +61 3 59649031
Thousands of full text research papers are available on-line at www.aare.edu.au

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Broadcast E-mail 18/06/2007

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EDUCATION JOURNALS BANDING STUDY ADVANCES

At the AARE Focus Conference 2007 - Canberra last week, delegates were impressed with the details of the SORTI- AARE Journals Banding Study revealed by Sid Bourke and Allyson Holbrook from the University of Newcastle. After their presentation, questioning was vigorous and thoughtful. This presentation and discussion will be repeated for a world wide audience live in real-time via telecommunications on 12 ^th JULY 2007 at 7.30 pm AEST.

WebEx Australia is sponsoring AARE to conduct this real-time meeting on the web in which up to 250 people can be connected free of charge by phone and the internet, from a wide range of countries in the world, to see and hear and ask questions of Bourke and Holbrook. Registration is free by sending a simple email [with the subject BANDING STUDY] saying that you wish to be included to pjeff@aare.edu.au Peter Jeffery will send details of how to connect to and operate WebEx. from your own computer wherever you are.

We have also posted details on AARE website [see forthcoming workshops] but as you must be invited by AARE to join the webcast you still need to send an email to pjeff@aare.edu.au so that we can do that.

The day and time for this presentation, 12^th JULY 2007 at 7.30PM Australian Eastern Standard Time [AEST] has been chosen to make joining into this webcast easier for colleagues located in many parts of the world, however, some will need to tune in late or early in the day. Here is a link to a world date and time planning service on the web to help people in other time zones work out what time/day 12^th July 7.30PM AEST is where you are. http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meeting.html

Registrants will be sent an invitation by email and details of how to join the meeting to hear and speak to the researchers. A link will be provided to the presentation and you will receive a free number to dial-in by phone to hear and ask questions.

THIS IS A WORLD WIDE RESEARCH PROJECT
USING WORLD WIDE TELECOMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
TO BRING TOGETHER RESEARCHERS IN A COMMON EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH EFFORT.

PLEASE JOIN US.

Sid Bourke, Allyson Holbrook and Peter Jeffery
[Present or former members of AARE Executive Committee]

PS: Try WebEx free of charge by contacting them at http://www.webex.com.au/ before the AARE Banding Meeting.

Peter Jeffery
AARE Executive Member
pjeff@aare.edu.au
AARE phone +61 3 59649031

Thousands of full text research papers are available on-line at www.aare.edu.au

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Broadcast E-mail 09/06/07

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ASSISTANCE WANTED FOR SORTI PROJECT

AARE is assisting Professors Bourke and Holbrook of the University of Newcastle in conduct of the "Education Journals Banding" project. There has been information about this in several AARE newsletters and on AARE website. Members have previously been invited to complete the on-line survey which is at the core of the data collection. We now need overseas colleagues views.

We are now asking AARE members to please contact overseas colleagues and invite them to contribute to the study. All AARE members have overseas colleagues and we would like them to know that they canjoin a webcast and subsequently complete the banding study survey.

Professors Bourke and Holbrook will make a webcast [real time interactive videocast] regarding the project one evening in June [evening, to help with international time zones].

Details of how that will work can be obtained from Peter Jeffery pjeff@aare.edu.au AARE broadcast emails like this one never contain attachments but Peter Jeffery can send information on what's involved in receiving the WebEx webcast. [It is easy and completely free].

If you are interested in hearing about the journals banding project including having a conversation with the researchers, send an email to pjeff@aare.edu.au Full details of dates times and how to do it will be sent.

OUTAGE REPORT

AARE Office email was out of service due to a computer crash in the off-site ISP from 6.20 am AEST 8/06/07. All services were restored late afternoon Friday. All emails have now been transmitted to AARE.

 

AARE Office
AARE phone +61 3 59649031
Thousands of full text research papers are available on-line at www.aare.edu.au