For the 2025 annual SERA meeting, there are three training sessions. 

Training Session 1 ($30) OPEN

Developing and Demonstrating your Research Agenda for Getting a Job and Getting Promoted
Presenter: Grant Morgan

Articulating your research agenda is one of the most important components of a successful faculty job application and of a successful tenure and promotion packet. Unfortunately, many, if not most, graduate students and junior faculty never receive direct input into how to take on this critical piece of their application and/or promotion materials. In this workshop, participants will learn the three key elements of an effective research agenda and how to emphasize the three elements when articulating the agenda. The workshop will cover basics like planning and visualization and strategies like using metrics to demonstrate impact.

Training Session 2 ($30) OPEN

Systematic Review with Meta-Analysis: Reading the Evidence in Education
Presenter:  Peter Boedeker

Systematic Review with Meta-Analysis provides a structured synthesis of intervention effectiveness. Combining evidence from potentially hundreds of studies, the resulting synthesis helps to determine which educational interventions work best and for whom do such interventions have differing effects. Understanding the process of a systematic review and how to interpret the findings of a meta-analysis are critical to take advantage of this rich resource. By the end of this workshop, attendees will be able to describe the systematic review process and interpret the statistical results of a meta-analysis. 

Training Session 3 ($30) OPEN

Writing with P.O.W.E.R. – Increasing your Writing Habits to Powerfully Enhance your Writing Productivity
Presenter: Wendi Zimmer

You know your subject matter, but do you know which writing processes and habits are optimal for communicating your expertise? The ones that yield productivity, publications, and promotions? The P.O.W.E.R. (“Promoting Outstanding Writing for Excellence in Research”) system, pioneered by Pat Goodson at Texas A&M University, will save you years of trial and error. During this 2-hour workshop based on P.O.W.E.R. principles, we will survey the most effective practices from leading writers (academic and non-academic) and peak performance theory that you can apply to your writing work. Show up to this workshop with a device on which you can compose and edit text, one of your works in progress, and your top three writing goals in mind. You will leave with strategies, techniques, templates, resources, reading lists, and new accountability partners for your academic writing career.

Pending availability, tickets for the training session may be purchased on-site (check or cash only).