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last call to register for CARMA Consortium Webcast Program (research methods lectures)

  • 1.  last call to register for CARMA Consortium Webcast Program (research methods lectures)

    Posted 09-19-2006 13:21

    With apologies in advance for cross-listings!

    Dear Colleagues:

    I am re-sending the message below that was distributed late in the summer that describes the 2006-2007 CARMA Consortium Webcast Program.  I am happy to report that we have over 75 universities who have registered to participate, and you can see a list of these schools on our website: (http://www.pubinfo.vcu.edu/carma/CurrentConsortiumMembers.asp).  
    Our first lecture is next Friday, September 29 (Dr. David Harrison, Regression Models for Limited Dependent Variables).  There are still openings for additional schools to participate, and if you are interested you should register by the end of this week (if possible) to allow time for processing of your registration.  Thanks. Larry  

     
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    I am pleased to announce the schedule for the 2006-2007 CARMA Consortium Webcast Program offered by the Center for the Advancement of Research Methods and Analysis (CARMA), a non-profit unit of the School of Business at Virginia Commonwealth University.  The main purpose of our Consortium Webcast 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 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.  Viewing the live Webcasts as a group can also be an important community building activity for your department and/or graduate program.

    As with last year's program, the 2006-2007 edition will include 10 one-hour lectures on advanced topics delivered live (with video and audio components) by leading scholars/methodologists from organizational studies, all of whom are editorial board members or past/current editors of leading journals from management and related areas.  As before, the live Webcasts are available for group viewing by an unlimited number of participants from each institution.  Also, as in the past, our Webcast Program will allow viewers to ask questions, will be supported with relevant PowerPoint slides and background references, and will make available recorded versions of each lecture for unlimited individual later viewing throughout the year.  Presenters scheduled for live presentations during 2006-2007 include David Harrison, William Starbuck, Jeff Stanton, Steven Rogelberg, Katherine Klein, Neal Schmitt, Robert Ployhart, Robert Vandenberg, Michele Gelfand, and Jorge Mendoza (see schedule below).

    Membership in the 2006-2007 CARMA Consortium Webcast Program will allow each participating school one access point for live group viewing of the 10 lectures mentioned above.  Equally as important, membership will also allow unlimited individual viewing of 16 additional recorded lectures from past CARMA Webcasts (see full list below).  This means that any faculty or student from a school participating in the Program can watch any of the 26 recorded lectures at any time, for as many times as is desired.  Further, students and faculty from schools participating in our Webcast Program will receive a 50% discount on registration fees for all ten 2007 CARMA Summer Short Courses (each is three full days and includes both lecture and computer lab components; topics include grounded theory, repeated measures/longitudinal research, meta-analysis, multi-level analysis, social network analysis, process research methods, testing interactions with linear regression, survey design/data collection using the internet, and introductory/advanced structural equation methods).

    The Advanced Registration Fee (available until September 1) for your school to join the 2006-2007 Consortium Webcast Program and have access to these 26 lectures is only $750. This fee allows an unlimited number of faculty and doctoral students from your university to watch the live (as a group) and recorded (individually, from any location) presentations.  


    Presenters and Topics for the 2006-2007 CARMA Consortium Webcast Program

    As noted above, the 2006-2007 CARMA Consortium Webcast Program includes 10 live presentations, as well as 16 recorded presentations from 2004-2005 and 2005-2006 Webcast Lectures.  The full list of presenters and topics is provided below.

    Live presentations scheduled for the 2006-2007 academic year include:

    Sept. 29, 2006                Dr. David Harrison, Pennsylvania State University
                            Regression Models for Limited Dependent Variables

    Oct. 27, 2006                Dr. William Starbuck, New York University/ University of Oregon
                            Robust Regression

    Nov. 17, 2006                Dr. Jeff Stanton, Syracuse University
    (3 lectures)                Issues with Internet Data Collection        

                            Dr. Steven Rogelberg, University of North Carolina Charlotte
                            Non-responses to Organizational Surveys

                            Dr. Michele Gelfand, University of Maryland
                            Methodological Issues in Cross-Cultural Research

    Feb. 23, 2007                Dr. Katherine Klein, University of Pennsylvania
                            Issues with Group Measurement

    Mar. 23, 2007                Dr. Neal Schmitt, Michigan State University
                            Item Response Theory

    Apr. 20, 2007                Dr. Robert Ployhart, University of South Carolina
    (3 lectures)                Longitudinal Data Analysis

                            Dr. Robert Vandenberg, University of Georgia
                            Latent Growth Models for Longitudinal Data

                            Dr. Jorge Mendoza, University of Oklahoma
                            Repeated Measures ANOVA and MANOVA
           
    Recorded presentations from the 2005-2006 academic year include:

    Dr. Claudia Cogliser, Texas Tech University (Individual level measurement)
    Dr. Gilad Chen, Texas A & M University (Group level measurement)
    Dr. Brian Boyd, Arizona State University (Organizational level measurement)
    Dr. Dan Dalton, Indiana University (Meta analysis and strategy research)
    Dr. Jeff Edwards, University of North Carolina (Mediation and moderation)
    Dr. Eugene Stone-Romero, University of Central Florida (Mediation and lab research)
    Dr. J. Myles Shaver, University of Minnesota, (Mediation and macro issues)
    Dr. Dan Brass, University of Kentucky (Social network analysis)
    Dr. John Hollenbeck, Michigan State University (Lab research in applied psychology)
    Dr. Kevin Murphy, Pennsylvania State University (Power analysis)

    Recorded presentations from the 2004-2005 academic year include:

    Dr. Herman Aguinis, University of Colorado- Denver (Interactions with regression)
    Dr. Jeff Edwards, University of North Carolina (Interactions with SEM)
    Dr. Larry James, Georgia Tech University (Interactions with meta-analysis)
    Dr. James LeBreton, Wayne State University (Measures of agreement)
    Dr. David Hofmann, University of North Carolina (Hierarchical linear models)
    Dr. Robert Vandenberg, University of Georgia (Multi-level SEM)

    I hope you will find our 2006-2007 CARMA Consortium Webcast Program to be of interest to your doctoral students and faculty.  I feel very fortunate to have such an outstanding group of presenters participating in next year's program.  In addition, all 26 lectures available as part of the program cover a range of methodological and data analysis topics that should be of interest to both micro and macro researchers.

    I invite you to visit the CARMA Website (http://www.pubinfo.vcu.edu/carma/), look at a sample Webcast by Dr. Kevin Murphy, and learn more about CARMA and our Consortium Webcast Program. You may also be interested in our list of CARMA Fellows, who have been recognized as such because of their presentations at VCU (it is a distinguished list of faculty that we are very proud of and that represents our commitment to quality in providing research methods education).

    Please let us know if you have questions, and I hope your university will join the 2006-2007 CARMA Consortium Webcast Program.  Over 50 universities participated in last year's program, and we are confident that our program can help meet the research methods training needs of faculty and students at your school.

    Sincerely,

    Dr. Larry J. Williams, Director
    Center for the Advancement of Research Methods and Analysis (CARMA)
    http://www.pubinfo.vcu.edu/carma/
    Virginia Commonwealth University
    1015 Floyd Avenue
    PO Box 844000
    Richmond, VA 23284
    phone: 804-828-7163
    fax: 804-225-4790