Physics Education Research Conference
Cognitive Science and Physics Education Research

Targeted Poster Session Guidelines
Deadline: Sunday, June 10

Description

Targeted Poster Sessions combine the graphic display of materials with the opportunity for discussion of the research. Sessions are organized around a common theme or body of work. Presenters introduce their posters with brief opening statements and end the session with a panel discussion of the research. The remaining time allows attendees to visit posters.  Although, not a requirement all targeted poster session presenters are urged to address the conference theme and/or general issues related to methodology of physics education research

Organizing a Session

If you would like to organize a Targeted Poster Session, please complete and submit the online proposal form.

Click here and the submission form will open in a new window.
If you get a "Survey no longer available" or "Unknown Error" message, please try the link again after some time.  If the message persists,  please email Chandralekeh Singh (clsingh@pitt.edu).

In completing the form you and your co-organizers will be required to:

1. Articulate a unifying theme that will be addressed by all of the posters in the session, and describe how this theme address the overall conference theme .

2. Identify at least three and no more than five individual poster presenters who will present posters describing their individual research pertaining to the session theme.

3. Prepare abstracts that describe not just the individual posters and also how these posters address the overarching theme of the session and the conference .

In planning your session, please keep the following guidelines in mind

1. The first 20-25 minutes for the discussant (organizer) to present the overarching theme and for the individual poster presenters to briefly describe their research which speaks to this theme.

2. For the next 40-45 minutes, participants walk around the room and interact with individual poster presenters.  Please urge the participants to take the opportunity to circulate around the room and view all of the posters.

3. The last 20 minutes will be a panel discussion led by the discussant.