NASP has long focused on efforts to remedy the shortages in school psychology and it has been a strategic goal of the organization since 2012. NASP, state school psychology associations, and individual school psychologists have devoted countless hours to examining the myriad variables that impact the shortages and to propose and enact solutions.…

Vigorous debates have unfolded challenging public recognition of individuals whose names and images are emblazoned on public displays of recognition, including professional awards. Efforts to diversify higher education institutions in the U.S. have largely been focused at recruitment and retention efforts with less attention directed to racial and…

Honors advocates and scholars should pursue transdisciplinary inquiry to overcome traditional notions of well-defined knowledge boundaries. This essay examines the publication record of the National Collegiate Honors Council beyond its immediate utilitarian value as a means for communication with its members. Citing usage and metrics, the author…

This collaborative autoethnographic research study examines the motivations, experiences, and professional outcomes of seven community engagement practitioner-scholars who served in a high-level elected position in a community engagement research association and its affiliated graduate student network. The findings highlight the role of…

In their February 2019 Forum piece in "Applied Linguistics," Bhattacharya "et al." (2019) present longitudinal evidence that the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) still struggles to realize core principles of diversity and advocacy despite the passing of its 2013 resolution 'Affirming Commitment to Promoting…

The American Sociological Association (ASA) used social science research and data informed approaches to engage community college faculty in the discipline.

This chapter explores the relationship between the American Economic Association and community college economics faculty, as well as the Federal Reserve System's education outreach efforts to the community college sector.

Context: Competency-based education (CBE) is entrenched in educating health professionals in Canada. CBE is a framework that identifies desired performance characteristics in training competent, entry-level health professionals. Objective: To update, develop, and validate a new Canadian Athletic Therapists Association (CATA) framework for athletic…

This study represents a repeat of Simmons's (1996) study to determine to what extent large schools that are members of the Association of Christian Schools International (ACSI) are conducting board member evaluations of chief administrators 25 years after the original study was conducted. The study involved analyzing the schools by conducting…

This study is an attempt to explore the existing practices in promoting the professional identities of female English teachers through professional organizations. Nine female English teachers were selected as a sample using a purposive non-random sampling procedure from Kathmandu district. This is a narrative inquiry research design in which I…

Since the early 2000s, accountability and evaluation have been regarded by policymakers as key mechanisms for "fixing" teacher education and by many teacher education leaders as vehicles for elevating the status of the profession and uniting a fragmented field. Although educational inequity has been an enduring and endemic problem during…

Students from Generation Z (Gen Z) have entered undergraduate music education programs with differing perspectives from the generations before them, which may influence their involvement in professional organizations. Gen Z commonly includes anyone born between the years 1995 and 2010 (Seemiller & Grace, 2015). A better understanding of Gen Z…

Mentoring has been greatly studied and documented to be beneficial in a broad swath of society including the field of education. School leaders who have benefitted from mentoring report a greater ability to effectively lead their academic institution. Though much research exists to support mentoring in the field of education, a gap in the…

The purpose of this article is twofold: (a) to present the results of a study examining the current status of performance evaluations for school psychologist and (b) to use those findings to inform future directions. A content analysis of a national sample of 36 performance appraisal rubrics was conducted to examine their alignment with the…

Internet surveys of American Evaluation Association (AEA) members are a common method for studying evaluation practice. Response rates obtained from Internet surveys of AEA members are, however, frequently very small. To investigate whether or not material incentives increase response rates to Internet surveys of AEA members, a between-subjects…