[Stc-ac] Seeking Reviewers

[Thomas Orr]

Seeking Reviewers

We are currently seeking reviewers to add to our review board for our special issue on assessment.  Review work would begin November 1 after all the papers have been collected. If you are interested, send us the following information.  Review work is not only interesting, but it carries a lot of weight on CVs.  

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Send info to Thomas Orr <t-orr at ieee.org> by October 20.

You would be reviewing papers for this special issue:  


IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication
Special Issue on Assessment in Professional Communication
Guest Editor: Thomas Orr, Center for Language Research, University of Aizu 

Full papers due: November 1, 2008 
Assessment is a crucial activity for effective decision-making in every profession. To provide readers of IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication with useful and innovative information on a wide range of issues relative to assessment in professional communication, this special issue invites researchers and experienced practitioners to share the results of their research and experience via research papers, tutorials, and teaching cases, as well as book reviews of recent publications on assessment relative to assessing communication in the professions. Of particular interest is assessment of professional communication skills in the fields of science, engineering, or technology in university or workplace contexts, as well as training programs for skill development in those fields. Assessment research and practice related to communication and communication training in other professions, of course, is welcome too. 

Possible topic areas for this special issue include but are not limited to the following: 
  a.. Assessment of communication skills for program admission or graduation decisions in science, engineering, computing, etc.  
  b.. Needs assessment for the design of communication training programs for professional development in particular professions 
  c.. Assessment of professional communication skills for hiring, promotion, or placement decisions 
  d.. Development or evaluation of pre- and post-assessment tools to measure progress in profession-related communication skills 
  e.. Development of new technologies, methods, or procedures to measure professional communication skills 
  f.. Development of goals, standards, benchmarks, evaluation criteria, etc. for the assessment of professional communication skills 
  g.. Research-based critiques of current assessment problems and shortcomings 
  h.. Evaluative surveys of existing assessment tools, programs, and methodologies 
  i.. Research-grounded discussions of issues in assessment theory related to professional communication skills or programs 
  j.. Case studies of effective use of assessment tools or procedures 
All papers will undergo a regular peer-review process, the results of which will determine whether the paper will be published in this special issue of the IEEE-TPC. 

Submissions may be sent to Thomas Orr at <t-orr at u-aizu.ac.jp>.  
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