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2009 Biennial Meeting

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New Schedule for 2009:

Meeting sessions begin on Thursday, April 2, at 8:20 AM and
end on Saturday, April 4 at 6:00 PM .

April 2-4, 2009
Denver, Colorado, USA

All sessions will be held in the Colorado Convention Center and the
Hyatt Regency Denver at the Colorado Convention Center

Celebrating 75 Years of the Society, 1933 - 2008,
And 30 Years of the Government Fellows Program 1978 - 2008 and
31 Years of the Committee for Policy and Communications, 1977 - 2008!

Call for Submissions
(Revised August 22, 2008)

    

Submission Website:

    www.srcd.org/submissions2009/

OPENS: July 1, 2008

Submission Deadlines:

    Posters: August 22, 2008

    All Other Formats: August 29, 2008
"I See What You Mean," a sculpture by
artist Lawrence Argent. Photo courtesy
of Denver Metro Convention & Visitors
Bureau.

 
The Governing Council and Program Committee invite you to submit for the 2009 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) to be held at the Colorado Convention Center and Hyatt Regency Denver at the Colorado Convention Center, April 2 - 4, 2009. Preconference events will be held on Wednesday, April 1, 2009.

SRCD welcomes submissions from investigators around the globe in all disciplines related to the field of child development-empirical, theoretical, historical, and methodological submissions. The Society also encourages submissions from students, both graduate and undergraduate. The interdisciplinary and international character of the Society is strongly supported through its Biennial Meetings.

Attention Symposia Organizers! For assistance in organizing your symposium, please use our new Symposium Assistant website. This website is a tool that provides assistance in developing or joining a symposium. What can you do on this website?

  • An author may post a paper, poster, or topic that he/she would like to be included in a submitted symposium;
  • A person may nominate him or herself to serve as a discussant for a symposium;
  • A chair may list an incomplete symposium and indicate what he/she is looking for to complete it.
  • A chair may develop an entire symposium of papers, posters, or topics and even identify a discussant for a submitted symposium.

This website tool will help you connect with people, some of whom my may not already know, to increase the multidisciplinary and international scope of your symposium.

Important Notes:

  • Integrative statements for submissions accepted for presentation will be available for viewing in the online program schedule.
  • The Symposium Assistant website is not a submission website; you must enter your information through the official 2009 SRCD Submission Website.

SRCD normally does not accept material that has been presented or will be presented elsewhere. Exceptions may be made in cases where SRCD members have not had access to the information. A submitter of such a presentation should provide justification in an email message to the SRCD program office (programoffice@srcd.org) prior to submitting.

Author Information Verification Process. IMPORTANT: Approximately 4 weeks following the final submission deadline for the Biennial Meeting, every person on all submissions receives an email message requesting that they update and verify their contact and demographic information. The message contains a unique link that accesses the data entered for that person on his/her associated submission(s). In addition to allowing data updates, the webpage that opens offers the opportunity to apply for travel grants (visit the SRCD website for more details).
 

2009 Submission Rules

  1. Members may submit 3 presenting roles.
  2. Nonmembers may submit 2 presenting roles.

Submitting is the only way that members and nonmembers may establish their 2 or 3 allowable submissions. After decision notification, an author may not be added to a submission in a presenting role.

 Additional Considerations:
  1. Only presenting roles will be protected from schedule conflicts.
  2. There may be up to 10 authors per paper or poster; roles 2-10 do not count toward the maximum number of submissions and are not protected from schedule conflicts.
  3. Multiple roles for an individual in the same submission count as one presenting role.
  4. Membership status: SRCD membership is not required to submit; however, to comply with the submission rules for a member, your membership must be current for 2008.
    Renew my membership / Join SRCD
Presenting Roles, Defined
  1. Chair 1 or Chair 2 of a Symposium, Memorial Panel Discussion, or Group Pecha Kucha Session
  2. Discussant for a Symposium
  3. Author 1 of a Poster/Paper in a Symposium
  4. Panelist in a Roundtable Discussion Symposium or Memorial Panel Discussion
  5. Author 1 of a Poster or Pecha Kucha presentation

Entering Data Into the Submission Website

  1. Submitting, review of submissions, and production of the program schedule are all done electronically on the web, and it is essential to recognize that what you enter for your submission is what will appear in the printed program book and in the online program schedule. Please pay attention to details:
    • For the purpose of uniquely identifying yourself and every person included on your submission(s), enter a current full name, email address, and affiliation for each person. This information is used throughout the submitting and review process for identification and also ensures that our email communication reaches everyone.
    • Use proper capitalization and punctuation in your titles, integrative statements, and summaries; and
    • Run a spell- and grammar-check in your word-processor before uploading files to the submission website.
  2. NEW: Integrative statements will be included in the online program schedule, but individual paper/poster summaries are for review purposes only.
  3. To protect the anonymity of the review process, for integrative statements and summaries produced in MS Word and WordPerfect, click on the Tools menu, then on Options, and then on the Security tab; check "Remove personal information from file properties on save."
  4. Be sure to save a final copy of your edited document before uploading your file to the submission website: Accept all changes and turn the "track changes" tool off.
  5. After you finalize your submission,
    • No summary substitutions may be made. (Note: Summaries are for review purposes only.)
    • No title substitutions are allowed.
    • No substitutions of presentations within a symposium are allowed.
  6. Exception to #5 above: Following decision notification, accepted submitters will have one opportunity to request minimal corrections. Additional co-authors may be added at this time, changes in roles may be requested, and typographical errors may be corrected until the deadline for revisions as specified in your decision notification.
  7. Completion of a submission online is considered an agreement to present the submitted work in the specified format at its scheduled time. If your submission is accepted, the material presented at the meeting must substantively match that described in the summary submitted for review.
    • Individual requests for particular presentation times are very difficult to accommodate due to complex scheduling procedures. However, at the time of submission, a request for a certain time may be made in the "Notes" field on the submission website. Please include the reason for your special time request, and we will do our best to accommodate your needs in our scheduling process. However, we cannot guarantee that your request will be honored.

Review Criteria for All Submission Formats. Sufficient empirical data, coded and analyzed even if not yet complete, must be included in your summary to provide a basis for evaluation of your submission. Each submission is evaluated by at least two members of either your first- or second-choice review panel. If two ratings of a submission differ considerably, the panel chair also will rate the submission. Submissions are reviewed according to the following criteria:

  1. Clarity of formulation/conceptualization.
  2. Adequacy of methods.
  3. Appropriateness of interpretations.
  4. Importance of topic.
  5. For multi-presenter formats: Cohesion among presentations, relevance of presentations to the topic, and expression of different views.
  6. This year inclusion of an element/elements of the SRCD Strategic Plan also will be an important consideration when choosing among submissions with equivalent scientific merit. Specifically, these elements include multi/interdisciplinary, international, and cultural/contextual research.

Submissions may be denied review if:

  1. Submission instructions are not followed.
  2. The integrative statement or summary exceeds the stated maximum number of pages.
  3. Material is submitted in two formats, e.g., both as a poster and a symposium presentation.
  4. A summary lacks sufficient data-coded and analyzed, even if not yet complete-to provide a basis for reviewer evaluation.
  5. Material was presented elsewhere and prior permission was not requested and granted to submit for this meeting.
  6. Submission Rules are not observed.

Travel Grants. SRCD offers several travel grants, and you are encouraged to apply for all grants for which you are qualified. Qualifications and applications for these awards will be available during the Author Information Verification Process.

SRCD provides the following equipment in each meeting room at no cost to you:

  • An LCD projector, an appropriate screen, and, as needed, lavaliere microphones.
  • An appropriate number of standing microphones placed in the audience seating area.

SRCD offers an exciting new submission format for 2009, the Pecha Kucha. This may be submitted as an individual presentation or as a group session. Click on the format link below for more information.

Submission Formats

For detailed format information, including examples of symposia integrative statements and summaries, click on the format name below. A new window will open so that you may read and print the pertinent information.

  1. New! Pecha Kucha
  2. Poster
  3. Paper Symposium
  4. Poster Symposium
  5. Student Poster Symposium
  6. Roundtable Panel Discussion
  7. Memorial Panel Discussion
     

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