National Council on Measurement in Education

The Brenda H. Loyd Award honors an outstanding dissertation in the field of educational measurement. The winner of the award will receive $1,000 and a commemorative plaque from NCME. In addition, the advisor or committee chair for the award-winning dissertation will receive a letter of congratulations.

Call for Nominations

Nominations will be accepted for dissertations completed between July 1, 2009, and June 30, 2011. The author of the dissertation need not be a member of NCME. However, the author's advisor must be a member of NCME.

Nominations must include: (a) a letter of nomination from the author's advisor; (b) a summary of the dissertation research (up to 10 double-spaced pages) that includes sections describing the rationale for the study, brief literature review, research questions, methodology, results, and conclusions; (c) a table of contents (including a list of table and figures); and (d) a statement from the graduate school confirming the date of completion and acceptance of the dissertation.

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.

Submit electronic files or eight hard copies of all materials by November 11, 2011 to: