Welcome to NRMERA
We are the Northern Rocky Mountain Educational Research Association, the regional affiliate of the American Educational Research Association. While our membership draws mostly from among researchers and educators in the Rocky Mountain West, we welcome all researchers and educators to be a part of our organization.We host a yearly conference as well as publish a peer-reviewed journal,The Researcher.
2012 Conference: Success for All Students
Park City, UT
The Canyons Resort
October 4-5, 2012
Message From the President:
Dear Colleagues and Friends,
This year represents an important milestone for the Northern Rocky Mountain Educational Research Association: the 2012 annual conference is NRMERA’s 30th Anniversary. For 30 years we have worked together to help fulfill NRMERA’s mission to encourage quality educational research and to promote the application of the results of such educational research in schools. In keeping with this mission, the theme for the 2012 conference is Success for All Students.
The keyword in this theme is “all,” and it is meant to remind us that in our work to continuously improve education, it is important to seek solutions that recognize the diverse needs and viewpoints of the populations we serve. For example, we need a better understanding of how to serve students with disabilities, English language learners, and talented and gifted students. Achievement gaps persist between racial and ethnic groups and between students who live in poverty and those from more financially secure families. Economic, political, and technological changes are leading to more non-traditional college students who are seeking to change careers or update their skills, and more of these students are taking classes online. I encourage each of you to consider how your research may fit with the conference theme when developing your proposals.
Just as this year’s conference aims to examine ways to help achieve success for all students, we strive to make the NRMERA conference welcoming to all researchers and practitioners. We welcome proposals featuring diverse research designs and presentation formats. This year we are adding a poster session that will allow presenters to get feedback on in-progress research. As always, we encourage and invite graduate students, faculty, teacher educators, state and local educators and administrators, and our friends in the private sector (e.g. educational consultants, testing contractors) to share research, learn from your colleagues, and make connections at this year’s NRMERA conference.
I look forward to seeing you at the 30th Annual NREMERA conference this fall in lovely Park City, Utah.
Sincerely,
Brett P. Foley
NRMERA President