Workshop+proposals+2018

The Society for the Advancement of Biology Education Research (SABER) invites you to submit workshop proposals for the annual National Meeting. Workshops will help participants develop biology education research (BER) or discipline-based education research (DBER) skills.
 * New in 2018!! ** ** SABER Workshop Proposal Guidelines **

Do not include identifying information in your workshop proposal. To maintain a blinded review process, the title and main text of your workshop proposal, as well as any files that you submit, cannot include the names of researchers or institutions involved in the workshop. If any identifying information is included, your identity will be revealed to the reviewers and may bias their review. The integrity of this blinded review process is a community effort, and we are relying on authors to submit blinded abstracts. Members of the abstracts committee are volunteers and do not have the capacity to remove identifiable information from abstracts.

The review process is blinded in three ways to minimize bias. First, the authors do not know the identity of the reviewers. Second, the reviewers do not know the identity of the authors. Finally, a limited number of people on the abstracts committee have access to the identifiable information, and they are not involved in the decision-making process. Therefore, the committee members who make decisions on abstracts based on reviewers’ scores also do not know the identities of the authors or the reviewers.

**These workshops will be scheduled for three hours from 9 am to 12 pm on Friday morning before** the opening session of the conference. Workshops will help participants develop biology education research (BER) or discipline-based education research (DBER) skills. Workshop proposals should include the following components, with a word limit of 8,000 characters including spaces. All of this information should be entered as separate sections into the abstract box on the online submission system.
 * A. Workshop Proposal **
 * 1) Abstract to be used in the conference program if accepted (3,000 characters including space)
 * 2) Participant outcomes (1,000 characters including spaces): List up to 5 tangible workshop outcomes
 * 3) Participant engagement (2,000 characters including spaces): Explain how the workshop will actively engage participants. This component is critical. Workshops are not intended to be extended talks and should involve participant activities for the majority of the three-hour session.
 * 4) Facilitator description (2,000 characters including spaces): Provide a short biography for each facilitator, describing their experience and expertise relevant to the proposed workshop.

All workshop proposals will undergo a triple-blind review process (described above) with multiple reviewers from the community. These reviewers will be asked to rate the workshop proposals based on the following three criteria:
 * B. Evaluation Criteria **
 * 1) Participant outcomes: Is the workshop likely to be of general interest to SABER attendees?
 * 2) Participant engagements: Are the activities suitable and aligned with the participant outcomes?
 * 3) Facilitator description: Do the facilitator(s) have sufficient expertise to lead the workshop?


 * C. Additional Instructions **
 * Do not include figures or references in your workshop proposal.
 * When you are ready to submit your proposal online, carefully follow the instructions detailed on the submission site for uploading your proposal.
 * When you submit your workshop proposal online, you will be prompted to enter two keywords that best describe your workshop topics. As this is the first year that we are soliciting workshop proposals, your keywords may help us improve on the process for next year.

On the online submission system, you will also be asked **indicate the target audience.**
 * **Beginner:** Participants have little to no exposure to the topics
 * **Intermediate:** Participants have some experience on the topics but are not necessarily experts
 * **Advanced:** Participants can be considered to have expert-level knowledge on the topics

You will use the SAME submission site for abstracts and workshop proposals. [|submit here.]