National Council on Measurement in Education

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 for an outstanding paper presented at the Annual Meeting.  A cash award of $1,000, a citation, and a waiver of NCME conference fees for the following year will be provided as partial support for an early career member of NCME to travel to the annual meeting. The award will be presented at the NCME Annual Meeting.

Call for Nominations

To be eligible for the award one must have presented a paper at one of the two most recent (2010 or 2011) NCME meetings in a paper session or as part of a symposium or panel discussion. The nominee must be an early career member of NCME (received his/her doctoral degree within 5 years of the annual meeting at which the paper was presented).

Nominations must include the following items: (a) a letter of nomination from a professional colleague who is a member in good standing of NCME or self-nomination by an NCME member, (b) the nominee’s current curriculum vitae, (c) at least one letter of recommendation from someone who knows the nominee’s work; multiple recommendations are acceptable, (d) both the nomination and the letter(s) of recommendation should list the reasons why the paper represents an important contribution to the field of applied measurement, (e) an electronic copy of the paper, and (f) for multi-authored papers, the nominee must be the first author or, if not the first author, the nominee must provide a statement that defines his/her unique contributions to the paper.  All other co-authors must provide a statement indicating that these contributions were unique, added to the value of the paper, and constituted a major portion of the paper.

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 2012 Annual Meeting. Nominations should be submitted by e-mail or by mail by November 14, 2011.