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CARMA Research Methods Lectures: Consortium Webcast Program Advanced Registration Deadline this friday

  • 1.  CARMA Research Methods Lectures: Consortium Webcast Program Advanced Registration Deadline this friday

    Posted 09-14-2009 07:55
    With apologies for cross-listings:

    In case you missed it and as a reminder, the information below describes the 2009-2010 CARMA Consortium Webcast Program, through which your school can have access to live and recorded lectures on introductory and advanced research methods topics.  We have a great list of presenters scheduled, including Jeremy Short, David MacKinnon, Deborah Bandalos, Greg Hancock, Ken Bollen, Robert Wiseman, Stephen Borgatti, Karen Golden-Biddle, Fran Yammarino, and Daniel Newman.  Their topics are micro and macro and quantitative and qualitative.  Past presenters whose recordings are also included in the program include editors from Journal of Applied Psychology, Academy of Management Journal, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Personnel Psychology, Administrative Science Quarterly, and Organizational Research Methods.  The deadline for Advanced Registration is this Friday, September 18.  For more information on CARMA visit our website: http://www.carma.vcu.edu/

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    Greetings from CARMA, the Center for the Advancement of Research Methods and Analysis, a non-profit unit of the School of Business at Virginia Commonwealth University.  We hope your academic year is off to a good start.  If you think that the graduate students and/or faculty at your university would be interested in unlimited access to recorded, and access to live lectures on research methods and statistical analysis, this email is for you.  The lectures are delivered by methodologists that include editors of major organizational journals and are offered through our CARMA Consortium Webcast Program.  

    What Does Membership in the CARMA Consortium Webcast Program Include?
    ·        Unlimited access to 47 hours of recorded lectures in our Video Library, which is available to all faculty and students (at no charge to them as individuals);
    ·        Access to 10 live lectures, which become part of our Video Library, throughout the academic year; and
    ·        A 50% discount on our Short Courses.

    How Can the CARMA Consortium Webcast Program Advance Faculty and Graduate Students' Research Methods Learning?
    ·        Useful for research within a wide variety of disciplines, including management and other business-related disciplines, psychology, sociology, education, nursing, social work and public health among many other disciplines;
    ·        Live webcasts as a doctoral program event (i.e. an electronic multimedia colloquium)
    ·        Excellent resource for faculty development to help faculty with their research;
    ·        Use in class by instructors looking for a way to compliment their teaching syllabus interactively;
    ·        Use by faculty to raise points of discussion and to engage students in class;
    ·        Helps to promote the quality of research;
    ·        Recognizes and supports various methodologies and approaches for researchers, doctoral students and faculty members;
    ·        Videos can be used to clarify doubts, learn more about issues with certain types of methodologies and to introduce doctoral students to various types of quantitative and qualitative methodologies;
    ·        Help doctoral students and faculty in their research and publications; and
    ·        Great resource for distance learning programs!


    What Has CARMA's Impact Been So Far?
    ·        Last year, 147 universities from throughout the United States and abroad participated;
    ·        More than 5,600 faculty and students from 55 countries are CARMA Website Users;
    ·        More than 200 universities have participated in the CARMA Consortium Webcast Program since 2005;  
    ·        More than 1,200 faculty and students have made more than 8,200 requests to watch recordings of CARMA Webcast lectures since the fall of 2004; and
    ·        More than 1,000 faculty and students from universities throughout the world have attended CARMA Short Courses at VCU since the summer of 2004.

    Registration for our 2009-2010 Webcast Consortium Program is open.  The Registration Fee for your university or organization to join the 2009-2010 Consortium Webcast Program is $850 (early registration fee) until September 18.  After this date, the price increases to $975.  Additional information about CARMA and its programs can be found at the end of this email, as well as on our website, http://www.carma.vcu.edu.  I would like to encourage you to initiate discussions with your program, department, school administrators, and/or your library administrators, about having your university register for our Program.  

    If you are from a university or organization outside the United States and Canada, you may be interested in our International Video Library Program, which allows access to recorded lectures but does not include the live webcasts.  Information on this program is also on our website.

    Below is a list of our schedule for this academic year, and we are very excited about the outstanding group of presenters we have scheduled.


    2009-2010 CONSORTIUM WEBCAST PROGRAM SCHEDULE

    Date
    Start Time
    (EST)
    Title(s)
    Presenter(s)
    9/25/2009
    12:00:00 PM
    		Computer-Aided Text Analysis: Tips and Techniques Dr. Jeremy Short, Texas Tech University
    10/30/2009
    12:00:00 PM
    		Best Methods for Mediation Analysis Dr. David MacKinnon, Arizona State University
    12/4/2009
    12:00:00 PM


    1:30:00 PM


    3:00:00 PM
    		Detecting and Diagnosing Model Misspecification

    Mean Structure Models with Latent Variables

    What Are Latent Variables?     		Dr. Deborah Bandalos, University of Georgia

    Dr. Greg Hancock, University of Maryland

    Dr. Ken Bollen, University of North Carolina
    1/29/2010
    12:00:00 PM
    		The Use and Misuse of Ratios Measures Dr. Robert Wiseman, Michigan State University
    2/26/2010
    12:00:00 PM
    		Simple Models for Analyzing Network Change Dr. Stephen Borgatti, University of Kentucky
    4/16/2010
    12:00:00 PM


    1:30:00 PM


    3:00:00 PM
    		Cultivating the Discovery Process in Field Research

    Multi-Level issues and WABA


    Missing Data: Problems and Prospects     		Dr. Karen Golden-Biddle, Boston University

    Dr. Fran Yammarino, State University of New York at Binghamton

    Dr. Daniel A. Newman, University of Illinois


    What Is CARMA?
    The Center for the Advancement of Research Methods and Analysis (CARMA) is a non-profit unit of the School of Business at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), located in Richmond, Virginia. CARMA was established in 1997 by Dr. Larry J. Williams, former Chairperson of the Research Methods Division of the Academy of Management and Founding Editor of Organizational Research Methods.

    What Is the Purpose of the CARMA Consortium Webcast Program?
    The main purpose of this Program is to allow faculty and students the opportunity to hear the latest methodological developments relevant to their research.  For many faculty and students, learning about research methods is challenging, and watching and listening to an expert who can present current information in an understandable form is a valuable learning aid.  Our Webcasts emphasize the substantive application of methodological developments and can supplement the education that occurs in traditional courses.  Membership in the Program occurs at the institutional level, and viewing the live Webcasts as a group can be an important community building activity for department faculty and/or graduate students.

    We provide training on research methods and data analysis that can benefit the doctoral students and faculty at your institution.  This training includes extensive topics in quantitative and qualitative methods. Through our Program, faculty and students from participating universities have access to live Webcasts and an extensive Video Library that address a wide range of topics in research methods used in organizational and social science disciplines.  

    The 2009-2010 Consortium Webcast Program will include 10 one-hour lectures on advanced topics delivered live (with video and audio components) by leading methodological scholars from organizational studies. The live Webcasts are available for group viewing by an unlimited number of participants from each member institution.  Also, the Webcast Program will allow viewers to ask questions, will be supported with relevant PowerPoint slides and background references, and will be made available in our Video Library for unlimited individual viewing throughout the year.  Below, please see the complete listing by topic of the 47 videos in our library, to which the 10 live webcasts will be added this year.  

    We hope the faculty and students at your school will be interested in our Program planned for the upcoming year.  Please forward this email to the faculty and doctoral students in your program so they can learn about the programs CARMA is hosting in the upcoming weeks.  If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact us. We hope to hear from you soon, and thanks in advance for sharing this email with colleagues at your school!

    Sincerely,

    Cary Wellford
    Assistant Director, Member Development
    CARMA
    Virginia Commonwealth University
    (804) 828-1658
    carmambrshp@vcu.edu

    CARMA Video Library
    Strategic Management
    Topic
    Lecturer
    Strategy and Research Methods Development Dr. Donald Bergh, University of Denver
    Using the Censored Regression Model (TOBIT) in Management Research Dr. Harry Bowen, Queen's University of Charlotte
    Current Issues with Organizational Level Measurement & Strategy Research Dr. Brian Boyd, Arizona State University
    Meta-Analysis & Strategy Research Dr. Dan Dalton, Indiana University
    Using Spatial Analysis in Strategy Research Dr. Jonathan Doh, Villanova University
    Advanced Panel Methods for Strategy Research Dr. Peter Hom, Arizona State University
    Concerns, Implications, and Alternative Strategies for Testing Mediating Variables in Management Research Dr. J. Myles Shaver, University of Minnesota
    Structural Equation Methods
    Goodness of Fit & Structural Equation Models  Dr. Jose Cortina, George Mason University
    Methods for Integrating Mediation & Moderation  Dr. Jeff Edwards, University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill)
     Moderation in Structural Equation Modeling Dr. Jeff Edwards, University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill)
     Measurement Invariance & Applied Research Dr. Roger Millsap, Arizona State University
    Testing Mediation Effects with Non-Experimental Research  Dr. Eugene Stone-Romero, University of Central Florida
    Multi-Level Structural Equation Methods  Dr. Robert Vandenberg, University of Georgia
    Correlation/Regression Models
    Estimating Interaction Effects with Multiple Regression  Dr. Herman Aguinis, University of Colorado (Denver)
    Estimating Confidence Intervals for Correlations Corrected for Unreliability & Range Restriction  Dr. Michael Burke, Tulane University
    Regression Models for Limited Dependent Variables Dr. David Harrison, Pennsylvania State University
    Relative Importance of Predictors with Regression Models  Dr. James LeBreton, Purdue University
    Robust Regression  Dr. William Starbuck, University of Oregon
    Multivariate Categorical Response Models  Dr. Peter Westfall, Texas Tech University
    Qualitative Analysis
    Grounded Theory Approach to Qualitative Data Analysis  Dr. Karen Locke, College of William & Mary
    Publishing Criteria for Qualitative Research  Dr. Michael Pratt, University of Illinois
    Measurement – Individuals
    Current Issues with Individual Level Measurement Dr. Claudia Cogliser, Texas Tech University
    Measurement Issues in Stress Research  Dr. Daniel Ganster, University of Arkansas
    Conditional Reasoning & Personality Measurement  Dr. Larry James, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Effects of Criterion Reliability on Means/Interactions in Meta-Analysis  Dr. Larry James, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Question & Context Effects in Organizational Survey Data  Dr. Adam Meade, North Carolina State University
    Non-responses to Organizational Surveys Dr. Steven Rogelberg, University of North Carolina (Charlotte)
    Restriction of Range  Dr. Paul Sackett, University of Minnesota
    Item Response Theory  Dr. Neal Schmitt, Michigan State University
    Issues with Internet Data Collection  Dr. Jeff Stanton, Syracuse University
    Measurement of Affect & Episodic Events  Dr. Howard Weiss, Purdue University
    Data Analysis & Research Methods
    Review of Research Methods in Organizational Studies  Dr. Herman Aguinis, University of Colorado (Denver)
    Simple Models for Analyzing Network Change  Dr. Steve Borgatti, University of Kentucky
    Issues in Social Network Analysis  Dr. Dan Brass, University of Kentucky
    Methodological Issues in Cross-Cultural Research  Dr. Michele Gelfand, University of Maryland
    Nonlinear Dynamic Models  Dr. Paul Hanges, University of Maryland
    Contributing to Applied Psychology with Laboratory Research  Dr. John Hollenbeck, Michigan State University
    Power Analysis for Traditional & Modern Hypothesis Tests  Dr. Kevin Murphy, Pennsylvania State University
    Levels of Analysis
    Conceptualization, Measurement & Validation of Multilevel Constructs  Dr. Gilad Chen, Texas A&M University
    Hierarchical Linear Modeling Dr. David Hoffman, University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill)
    Issues with Group Level Measurement Dr. Katherine Klein, University of Pennsylvania
    Measures of Agreement for Group Level Research Dr. James LeBreton, Wayne State University
    Dynamic Approaches to Analyzing Group Processes  Dr. Laurie Weingart, Carnegie Mellon University
    Longitudinal Analysis
    Discontinuous Growth Models Dr. Paul Bliese, Walter Reed Army Institute
    Repeated Measures ANOVA & MANOVA Dr. Jorge Mendoza, University of Oklahoma
    Longitudinal Data Analysis  Dr. Robert Ployhart, University of South Carolina
    Latent Growth Models for Longitudinal Data Dr. Robert Vandenberg, University of Georgia




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    Center for the Advancement of Research Methods and Analysis (CARMA)
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