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>First is the decision to limit any one author to two listings in the
>program. This is not first author, but as any paper author. As you may
>know, AERA limits one to two first authorships and a total of five
>appearances in the program. With AECT's current rule, they (excutive board)
>are limiting the dissemination of many sholarly pieces.
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>One soultion was to remove the author's name from additional papers. This
>solution is both unethical and fails to reward faculty members for their
>contribution.
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The board will be re-examing its current policy and discussiong the
recommedation from the Klein task force that teh limit of two prentations
be continued but that joint authorship be ancknowledged in the program.  (I
can support this position quite enthusiatically)
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>>From what I understand, we (conventional planning group) had some sessions
>that were not filled, so the limit did not open sessions for lesser quality
>papers or more presenters.
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This is news to me.  I assumed all avaialbe slots were filled.  I will
discuss this with the convention coordinating group.
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>Second, is the lack of blind review (have you every tried to mark out the
>author's names in the papers?). How can we be credible if we do not require
>blind reviews of our proposals?
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The blind review is obviously important to several groups (although some
want    keep the names identified) and we need to figure out how to manage
it easily.  This too will be discussed at the board meeting.
Hopefully we can find a simple solution that meets everyone's needs.

Thanks for continuing to discuss these issues so we can arrive at some
version of a solution that is a "best match" among the competing views.
While there is no way we will all agree all the time, I do believe that
people of good will can reach a reasonable compromise.

Hope you have a nice fourth.

Do keep in touch.
Kent Gustafson >>> internet mail:    kgustafs@moe.coe.uga.edu

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