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NCARE 2025 Call for Proposals

Due November 30, 2024

We are pleased to announce that the 2025 Annual Meeting of the North Carolina Association for Research in Education (NCARE) will be held in Greensboro, NC February 13-14, 2025. 

Our 2025 theme is "Research, Remedy, and Repair: Toward [a] Just Education Renewal”, which is inspired by AERA’s 2025 theme: “Research, Remedy, and Repair: Toward Just Education Renewal”. 

NCARE brings together educational researchers, scholars, and practitioners in the state of North Carolina. Over the past several years with the COVID pandemic, social and political division, education has faced a number of challenges. Challenges like mental health, lost instructional time, and social issues in schools are impacting teaching and learning in K-12 and higher education throughout North Carolina and across the country. While these challenges are often broad and systemic in nature, NCARE believes that it is important to share examples of research and practice that are breaking down barriers to help remedy and repair education in the state of North Carolina. 

This year’s conference theme invites educational researchers, scholars, and practitioners to present work on educational recovery from the pandemic, innovation and ways to accelerate learning, challenges to systemic barriers and ingrained inequalities, and ways researchers and practitioners are co-constructing and designing solutions to make educational opportunities more equitable. 

We specifically encourage research-practice partnerships between universities, school districts, state department of education, and other organizations to present their learnings on moving education forward during this time. NCARE welcomes researchers, evaluators, and practitioners who use qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methodologies.

We invite proposals for scholarly projects from PK-20 educators and researchers on educational research topics that align with our conference theme,"Research, Remedy, and Repair: Toward a Just Education Renewal”. Proposals are also open for professional development workshops.

Proposals on work in progress should be submitted for the poster session or short paper session. To be considered for paper presentations, research projects must be completed at the time of submission and you will designate your choice of presentation format when you submit. All proposals will be reviewed by at least two referees, using the criteria of quality, originality, and significance. Guidelines for each type of proposal are below. 

By submitting a proposal to the NCARE 2025 conference you agree, should your proposal(s) be accepted, to attend the conference and be present at your scheduled session(s).

Questions regarding the conference proposal can be sent to ncareboard@gmail.com.

Paper Presentation

NCARE would like to invite researchers to submit a paper proposal for this year’s conference. Paper presentations are reserved for completed works and should represent projects most fitting for referred journals. We appreciate, expect, and welcome methodological diversity in research. Theoretical papers are welcome but these papers should not be literature reviews. 

Proposals should be submitted as aPDF file and must follow these guidelines in order to be considered for review: 

  1. Blinded title page with author information removed.

  2. Abstract (up to 200 words).

  3. Proposal summary (blinded; approximately 1,200 words or two single-spaced pages) with the following headings:

    1. Objectives or research questions

    2. Perspective or theoretical framework

    3. Method or techniques

    4. Data sources

    5. Results and conclusions

 All proposals should be written using the 7th Edition APA Publication Manual. 

Panel Presentations


Panel presentations allow groups of colleagues to present together around a particular theme or topic. The goal of panel discussions is to provide conference participants with an opportunity to hear and engage in dialogue about cutting-edge research, practice, theory building, and/or policy. Panel organizers must identify their own chair/moderator. 


Panel proposals should be submitted as aPDF file and must follow these guidelines in order to be considered for review: 

  1. Blinded proposed panel title page with panel title.

  2. A panel description and a statement of the significance of the panel discussion for NCARE members (approximately 300 words).

  3. The proposed panel structure/agenda.


In-Progress Paper Presentations

In-Progress paper presentations are designed to allow discussion around current or ongoing research projects. Researchers who have research proposals, datasets, literature reviews, or works in progress will benefit from sharing their work with others to get feedback and ideas around the trajectory of their research. These papers, in their current state, would not be fitting for refereed journals. The audience would be able to provide feedback to researchers for possible next steps. 

Proposals should be submitted as aPDF file and must follow these guidelines in order to be considered for review: 

  1. Blinded title page with author information removed.

  2. Abstract (approximately 200 words).  Please reference this guide to help you create your abstract: https://apastyle.apa.org/instructional-aids/abstract-keywords-guide.pdf

Short paper abstracts should include: 

  • A clear statement of the purpose or goals of the research 

  • A brief summary of the theoretical or conceptual foundation

  • A brief description of the methodology proposed/used and the project findings (if applicable) 

  • The theoretical and/or practical significance and implications of the (proposed) research 

All proposals should be written using the 7th Edition APA Publication Manual. 


Poster Presentations


Posters are a mechanism for scholars to engage in interactive discussions with other conference participants about a research project that has been completed or is in the developing stages. The poster session allows conference participants with similar interests to interact by using the poster as a focal point. Poster presenters are responsible for designing, printing, and preparing their posters for display.  

Proposals should be submitted as aPDF file and must follow these guidelines in order to be considered for review: 

  1. Blinded title page with author information removed.

  2. Abstract (approximately 200 words).  Please reference this guide to help you create your abstract: https://apastyle.apa.org/instructional-aids/abstract-keywords-guide.pdf

Poster abstracts should include: 

  • A clear statement of the purpose or goals of the research 

  • A brief summary of the theoretical or conceptual foundation

  • A brief description of the methodology proposed/used and the project findings (if applicable) 

  • The theoretical and/or practical significance and implications of the (proposed) research 

Please be sure to speak to these same elements in the poster.

The suggested size for posters is 48”x60”. Foam boards will be made available at th[e]conference for presenters to mount their posters.

All proposals should be written using the 7th Edition APA Publication Manual.  

Workshops

Workshops provide opportunities for professional development through hands-on training and engage participants in focused discussions that offer new knowledge and resources. We welcome workshop proposals on any topic relevant to our conference attendees (graduate students, educational researchers, practitioners, and university faculty). Previous workshops included sessions on qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methodology, academic publishing, grant proposal writing, and dissertation writing. Sample workshop topics could include but are not limited to: 

  • Impacts of COVID-19;

  • Navigating online teaching and learning;

  • Social justice in education; 

  • Diversifying the application pool;

  • Normalizing mental health and wellness in education; 

  • Promoting advocacy in academia; 

  • Leveraging your research; 

  • Creating networks through research; 

  • Developing scholarly academic writing; and

  • Using your degree outside of academia. 

Each workshop is one hour in length. The workshop presenters can decide on the exact format of their session, but we encourage an interactive approach that engages participants in practical ways as much as possible. 

Proposals should be submitted as aPDF file and must follow these guidelines in order to be considered for review: 

Proposals must be in the form of abstracts, approximately 300 words in length. In your proposal include: 

  • The workshop title 

  • Purpose of the workshop 

  • Description of workshop materials (including the kinds of educational technology you might use) 

  • Objectives and outcomes 

  • A statement of significance to NCARE members

  • The intended audience (faculty, graduate and professional students, educational researchers, practitioners, etc.)

  • Experience and qualifications in the subject area

In addition to the abstract, please include a proposed workshop agenda and amount of time needed.

NCARE is an affiliate member of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) through the Consortium of State and Regional Educational Research Associations (SRERA).


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