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I think Gary Morrison has raised attention to two very important issues,
and I support his position on both.

I do believe that we need to have some limit on the number of presentations
a person gives at the annual conference, but limiting any author to two
listings in the program is too limiting.  AERA's limits to two first
authorships and a total of five listings in the program (or even four)
seems much more reasonable to me.

I am a strong proponent of blind review.  Just like manuscript reviews for
a journal, a presentation proposal should be judged on its merits, not on
the author's reputation or popularity.

I applaud Gary for raising these issues.

A related problem I would like to raise is that I have often found myself
with no sessions of interest to me in a time slot at the conference.  It
seems that there are considerably fewer offerings in each time slot than at
other conferences, like AERA.  Now, AECT is smaller than AERA, but I would
be interested in knowing how the number of sessions per attendee compares.
Would anyone be willing to dig up some data on this?

I would like to see more sessions, and I would expect that offering more
sessions would help attract more attendees to subsequent conferences.  How
much would it cost to get a couple of additional presentation rooms?  How
many additional registrations would be required to break even?  It would be
interesting to collect some data and even run an experiment!


Charlie


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