Dear SSRL SIG Members,

As was discussed at our Business Meeting at AERA last Spring in San Diego, we have elected to publish two newsletters during the 2009-2010 academic year. The purpose of the Fall newsletter is to inform the SSRL SIG membership about recent changes to SIG governance as well as recent accomplishments of our SIG members. We also include information in the newsletter that will promote research and professional collaboration amongst the highly talented members. We envision our Spring newsletter as a vehicle through which important information about the key programs and activities at the 2010 AERA conference in Colorado will be presented.

Timothy Cleary and Pamela Murphy

Newsletter Editors

In This Issue

Chair’s Corner – Message from Your Senior Chair 2

Message from Your Junior Chair 3

Member Contact Information 4

Recent Publications and Awards 7

Announcements 8

Biographies of Nominees 8


Chair’s Corner

A message from your Senior Chair

I am pleased to send my greetings from the pages of our fall 2009 newsletter: Many thanks to Tim Cleary and Pamela Murphy for producing an informative yet concise communiqué for us all. You will find here information about our membership (including names and email addresses), our upcoming elections, and recent publications and awards, as well as a thank-you to our review panelists and an invitation to serve as an officer.

As you probably know, AERA has made a number of changes this year that directly affect our SIG. These changes include new bylaws, updated guidelines for AERA-sanctioned awards, the need to assemble review panels to evaluate proposals for presentations at the annual meeting, and electronic elections with at least two candidates per office. Complying with each change represented a significant amount of work on the part of our officers: We owe a debt of gratitude to Sherri Horner, Héfer Bembenutty, and Linda Bol for ensuring that our SIG operates in accordance with all new AERA regulations.

The good news is that future SSRL SIG officers can assume leadership positions with the knowledge that the SIG is in good shape. I encourage you all to consider running for an office in the fall of 2010. We have four offices, each with a senior and junior officer. The following table lists our current officers and the primary roles and responsibilities of each office.

SSRL SIG Office / SIG officers / Primary roles and responsibilities
Chair (Senior) / Heidi Andrade / Responsible for general administration of the SIG, ensuring that SIG Bylaws are followed, and acting as a liaison between SIG and AERA and the SIG and Executive Committee.
Chair (Junior) / Héfer Bembenutty
Program Chair (Senior) / Linda Bol / Produce the conference program: solicit presentation proposals and reviewers, manage review process including accept/reject decisions, create program, review online preliminary program, organize business meeting, and coordinate with Graduate Student Research Award Chair.
Program Chair (Junior) / Srilata Bhattacharyya
Secretary/Newsletter (Senior) / Timothy Cleary / Take minutes of all meetings of Executive Committee and at annual business meeting, and produce SIG newsletters.
Secretary/Newsletter(Junior) / Pamela Murphy
Treasurer/Member (Senior) / Tracey Leacock / Responsible for managing and reporting on the financial accounts of the SIG, record keeping of all financial documents of the SIG, keeping records of and reporting on membership, and setting up the catering for the annual meeting.
Treasurer/Member (Junior) / Jason Bryer

The term of each officer is two years: the first year as junior and the second year as senior. Terms begin the day following the close of the AERA Annual Meeting and end on the last day of the next AERA Annual Meeting. We will elect four new junior officers in January, 2010: Please see the biographic information and a ballot on page 8 for information about our candidates.

Serving as a SIG officer is rewarding. I have found that my various roles in this SIG have enabled me to access research on SSRL I might otherwise have missed, and allowed me to develop working relationships that I will cherish for many years. With this past year as an exception, the workload of any given office is usually less than that of a typical college or university committee, so the benefits of serving far outweigh the costs. I hope many of you will self-nominate to run for office in the near future.

--- Heidi Andrade, SSRL SIG Senior Chair

A message from your Junior Chair

Serving to our SIG has been a blessing for me and has helped to guide my major professional theme: Incorporating self-regulation of learning and motivation into my professional discipline. Like most people, I was attracted to our SIG for its emphasis on self-regulation research but also by the first-class scholars who constituted its membership. My experiences have been both varied and rewarding and I would like to share my thoughts on these experiences with you.

·  Junior and Senior Secretary: My first active involvement in the SIG occurred during a business meeting at the 2006 AERA conference. I enthusiastically volunteered to run for the Junior Secretary position. This was a very important beginning for me. I served in the role of secretary for two years, an experience which provided me with the opportunity to share my perspectives about our field and our SIG. It also gave me international visibility within the self-regulation community.

·  Junior and Senior Program Chair: I was next elected to serve as the Junior Program Chair and later became the Senior Program Chair. In these capacities, I was lucky to work with two first-class colleagues and friends, Dr. Heidi Andrade and Dr. Linda Bol, who mentored and guided me. They gave me opportunities to be involved in one of the most visible positions in our SIG. My duties involved soliciting reviewers for the proposals, accepting or rejecting proposals, organizing the SIG program for the annual meeting, and selecting the invited speaker for our business meeting. In this capacity, I had the opportunity to influence the direction of our field and to crystallize the vision of our SIG.

·  Junior SIG Chair: My current role as the Junior SIG Chair provides me with a remarkable opportunity to interact with my colleagues around the world about what is important to our SIG. In this capacity, I work closely with the Senior SIG Chair, Dr. Heidi Andrade. We collaborate on many issues including ensuring that our SIG has a strong leadership position in AERA and helping to facilitate quality scientific scholarship and community within our SIG. Furthermore, in this position, I have had the unique opportunity to influence the policies that determine the paths of our SIG and to support those values and decisions that are consistent with effective self-regulation of learning.

I invite graduate students and junior and senior scholars to be actively involved in our SIG. The SIG offers plenty of opportunities and needs your skills and talents. Specific ways in which you could be involved include:

1.  Attending the business meeting and volunteering to serve in different leadership roles.

2.  Attending the AERA program organized by our SIG (e.g., symposia, posters, and roundtables).

3.  Making an effort to meet the senior scholars who have been the leaders of self-regulation. You could introduce yourself to them at AERA, ask them for copies of their publications, e-mail them questions related to your interests, and ask them for suggestions for your research.

4.  Making an effort to meet the junior scholars who are the new stars in our field. The junior scholars have in their hands the direction of our discipline and they are typically eager to help and to serve as role models to graduate students.

5.  Graduate students can ask their dissertation advisors to introduce them to friends and colleagues during the annual meetings of AERA

6.  If you have a presentation during the annual meeting, carry copies of your paper. When you introduce yourself to other scholars, give them copies of your paper. Chances are that they will read it.

I have been blessed to serve in many roles for our SIG and appreciate all of the opportunities and experiences that these roles have afforded me. It is my commitment to continue serving our professional organization. I certainly hope that you will consider joining my colleagues and me in the leadership of our SIG.

--- Héfer Bembenutty, SSRL SIG Junior Chair

Membership list and contact information

In order to promote research collaboration and an awareness of the quality, diversity, and strength of our SSRL SIG, we provide here the university affiliations and email addresses for each SIG member. If any of the following contact information is in error, please contact Tracey Leacock at

SSRL SIG Member Name / University Affiliation / email address /
Taylor Wayne Acee / The University of Texas at Austin /
Kay Alderman / The University of Akron /
Alice E. Anderson / The Pennsylvania State University /
Heidi L. Andrade / University At Albany /
Anthony R. Artino, Jr. / Uniformed Services Univ. of the Health Sciences /
Lori Price Aultman / Spring Hill College /
Roger Azevedo / University of Memphis /
Frederick T. Bail / DEPT Educ Psych-University of Hawaii /
Kathryn Bartimote-Aufflick / The University of Sydney /
Héfer Bembenutty / Queens College, City University of New York /
Sharon Irish Bevins / Florida Gulf Coast University /
Julia R. Beyeler / The University of Akron /
Srilata Bhattacharyya / Adelphi University /
Leonard B. Bliss / Florida International University /
Mary C. Bodvarsson / St. Cloud State University /
Linda Bol / Old Dominion University /
Mimi Bong / Korea University /
Evely Boruchovitch / University of Campinas /
Jonathan David Bostic / University of Florida /
Therese Bouffard / Univ of Quebec/psychology Dpt /
Christian Brandmo / Institute for Educational Research /
Jason Bryer / University at Albany /
Deborah L. Butler / The University of British Columbia /
William James Campbell / University of Colorado at Boulder /
Russell N. Carney / Missouri State University /
Sylvie C. Cartier / Université de Montréal /
Peggy P. Chen / Hunter College, CUNY /
Hongyu Cheng / State university of New York at Albany /
Clark A. Chinn / Rutgers University /
Moon-Heum Cho / Kent State University /
Jillianne Code / Simon Fraser University /
William Collins, Ph.D. / University of Michigan /
Lyn Corno / Teachers College, Columbia University /
Kathryn Cunningham / University of Kentucky /
Malcolm Cunningham / University of Toronto /
Linda T. Deangelo / University of California at Los Angeles /
Jeremy K. Dearman /
Helene E. Delpeche / University of Delaware /
Myron H. Dembo / University of Southern California /
Maria K. DiBenedetto / The Graduate Center – City University of New York /
Nicole Didonato / Rutgers University /
Charlotte Christine Dignath / WWU – Münster /
Alice C. Dix / University of Florida /
Markus Dresel / Universität Augsburg /
Diane Endall-Bruno / The Graduate Center – City University of New York /
Dorothy H. Evensen / The Pennsylvania State University /
Linda S. Garavalia / University of Missouri-Kansas City /
Cara L. Garcia / Pepperdine University /
Margaret Gredler / University of South Carolina /
Jeffrey A. Greene / University of North Carolina /
Allyson F. Hadwin / University of Victoria /
Richard J. Hamilton / The University of Auckland /
Lynne A. Hammann / Mansfield University of Pennsylvania /
Patricia A. Haught / West Virginia University /
Laura R. Hedin / Northern Illinois University /
Barbara K. Hofer / Middlebury College /
Sherri L. Horner / Bowling Green State University /
Jenefer E. Husman / Arizona State University /
Young Suk Hwang / California State University, San Bernardino /
Terrance G. Jakubowski / Los Angeles Unified School District /
Barbara Zebe Johnson / University of Minnesota – Duluth /
Kiana R. Johnson / Purdue University /
Cansel Kadioglu / Middle East Technical University /
Masao Kanaoka / Kagoshima University /
Andrew D. Katayama / United States Air Force Academy /
Douglas F. Kauffman / University of Nebraska-Lincoln /
Frederick B. King / University of Hartford /
Elizabeth M. Labone / Australian Catholic University /
William Y. Lan / Texas Tech University /
Ya-Ling Lan / The Pennsylvania State University /
Tracey L. Leacock / Simon Fraser University /
Robert B. Lebeau / University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey /
Cheryl Lemke / Metiri Group /
Detlev Leutner / Universität Duisburg-Essen /
Kathryn Ley / University of Houston – Clear Lake /
Hyo Jin Lim / University of Southern California /
Sofie Loyens / Erasmus University Rotterdam /
Lennia Matos / Peruvian University of Applied Sciences /
Christine B. McCormick / University of Massachusetts /
Judith F. McVarish / St. John’s University /
Paul M. Miller / St. John’s University /
Barbara Moschner / Universität Oldenburg /
Adam R Moylan / University of California, San Francisco /
Renee R. Mudrey-Camino / University of Akron /
Patricia I. Mulcahy-Ernt / University of Bridgeport /
Gayle E. Mullen / Midwestern State University /
Pamela Ford Murphy / Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University /
Carin Lynn Neitzel / Vanderbilt University /
David W. Nelson / The Florida State University /
John Cale Nesbit / Simon Fraser University /
John L. Nietfeld / North Carolina State University /
Harold F. O'Neil / University of Southern California /
Tenaha P. O'Reilly / Educational Testing Service /
Renate Otterbach / University of San Francisco /
Stephen J. Pape / University of Florida /
Meghan Margaret Parkinson / University of Maryland /
Franziska Perels / Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany /
Erin E. Peters / George Mason University /
Stephanie Pieschl / WWU Muenster /
Ryan R. Poirier / The Ohio State University /
Ellen Potter / University of South Carolina /
Crystal M. Ramsay / The Pennsylvania State University /
David F. Sacks / University of Kentucky /
Bernhard Schmitz / Institute of Psychology University /
Darin Craig Schroeder /
Dale H. Schunk / University of North Carolina at Greensboro /
Deborah Beth Scott /
Adina Shamir / Bar-Ilan University /
Jongho Shin / Seoul National University /
Hyuksoon S. Song / New York University /
Rayne A. Sperling / The Pennsylvania State University /
Norman A. Stahl / Northern Illinois University /
Karl Steffens / Universität zu Köln /
James Clinton Stockton /
Joan Ann Swanson / University at Albany, SUNY /
Laurie Sweeney / University at Albany, SUNY /
Yen M. To / Texas Tech University /
Phyllis Unebasami / Kamehameha Schools /
Peggy N. Van Meter / The Pennsylvania State University /
Marcel VJ Veenman / Universiteit Leiden /
Jan D.H.M. Vermunt / Utrecht University /
Aida Walqui / WestEd /
Claire Ellen Weinstein / University of Texas /
Philip H. Winne / Simon Fraser University /
Joachim Wirth / Ruhr-University Bochum /
Amy Marcelle Witherspoon / The University of Memphis /
Christopher A. Wolters / University of Houston /
Dawn Young / Bossier Parish Community College /
Barry J. Zimmerman / The Graduate Center – CUNY /
Akane Zusho / Fordham University /


SSRL SIG Members – Recent Publications and Awards