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Request for proposals for SIGMAA on RUME 2017

We hope that you are excited to attend the SIGMAA on RUME 2017 in San Diego, CA and share your work with our community. In order to make this happen, we are requesting that you submit a proposal to the conference. We will use Microsoft Conference Management System to solicit proposals. The following weblink will take you there:

https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/RUME2017

Click here for detailed submission guidelines

Encouraged focus of papers:

We read the focus of our SIGMAA rather broadly, and encourage submissions about traditional RUME areas such as proof, calculus, and college algebra, but, also as inclusive of graduate students, probability and statistics, combinatorics, social justice, and work related to teachers and teaching. The merits of each proposal will be judged individually, with evaluation about the quality of the work as well as the broad fit for the conference. As a result of our broad reading of RUME, we encourage submission of four different kinds of reports; Contributed Research Reports, Preliminary Research Reports, Theoretical Reports, and Poster Reports. We expect both Contributed Reports and Preliminary Reports will have data collected by the time of the proposal submission. Theoretical reports, by their nature, may not have any data at all. There are three rounds of 'papers' submitted to Microsoft Conference Management System. The first two rounds are submitted before the conference and the third round occurs after the conference.

• Round 1, the blinded proposal: In the original submission, you are asked to submit a blinded version, without author information (it's probably better to cite your published papers with the citation and your name rather than AUTHOR as long as the work is in wide circulation; that is we're following the APA guidelines).
  
• Round 2, the unblinded proposal: If your proposal is accepted for the proceedings, we will then ask you to submit a new, unblended version. For this submission, update your existing easychair proposal by replacing the original, blinded submission with the unblinded one. Please do not make a new proposal. Email Tim if you need help doing this or you've accidentally made a new submission. The unblinded proposals will all be included in the conference proceedings. We colloquially refer to them as 'short papers.'
• Round 3, the post-conference long paper: Everyone who presents at the conference (posters, preliminary reports, theoretical and contributed reports, everyone!) has the option of writing a 15-page paper for inclusion in the proceedings and consideration for the Best Paper award. The due date will be approximately 1 month after the conference, and announced at the conference.

Due Dates

All proposals must be submitted in Microsoft Conference Management System by the dates listed below.

• For contributed, theoretical and preliminary reports, the proposals will be due Friday, August 19, 2016.
• For poster reports, the 1-page proposals will be due on Friday, December 2, 2016 (although you are welcome and encouraged to submit them earlier). Posters will be reviewed on a rolling basis.

Contributed Research Reports

The SIGMAA on RUME aims to foster a professional atmosphere for quality research in the teaching and learning of undergraduate mathematics. We solicit proposals for contributed research reports presenting results from completed research studies on undergraduate mathematics education that address one or more of the following themes: results of current research contemporary theoretical perspectives and research paradigms innovative methodologies and analytical approaches as they pertain to the study of undergraduate mathematics education

Contributed reports can have a maximum of 7 pages, including title, abstract, keywords, and the body of the paper (tables and figures count towards the 7 page limit). References do not count towards the page-length. Papers longer than 7 pages will be returned un-reviewed.

Preliminary Research Reports

The SIGMAA on RUME seeks to support the professional development of new researchers and new research ideas in the field of undergraduate mathematics education. To foster constructive discussions toward this goal, we encourage graduate students, new PhDs, undergraduate mathematics educators, and experienced researchers to present preliminary reports on ongoing research projects in early stages of analysis, although, they must have data collected at the time of proposal submission (proposals without data will be rejected). Significant discussion time will follow each presentation to allow for feedback and suggestions for future directions for the research. Proposals for preliminary reports are encouraged to include a list of questions that will be posed to the audience during the discussion portion of presentation to help further the research.

Preliminary reports can have a maximum of 5 pages, including title, abstract, keywords, and the body of the paper (tables and figures count towards the 2 page limit), and intended questions for the audience. References do not count towards the page-length. Papers longer than 5 pages will be returned un-reviewed.

Theoretical Reports

The SIGMAA on RUME seeks to support the development of new theoretical perspectives for research on undergraduate mathematics education. Proposals in this category must explicate the theoretical perspective in detail and explain why existing theories do not adequately account for the phenomenon in question.

Theoretical reports can have a maximum of 7 pages, including title, abstract, keywords, and the body of the paper (tables and figures count towards the 7 page limit). References do not count towards the page-length. Papers longer than 7 pages will be returned un-reviewed.

Poster Reports

The SIGMAA on RUME seeks to create additional means for researchers to present their work and recognizes that some types of work are better presented in poster format. While not meant to be exclusive, we present two examples of types of Poster Reports. The first is methodological presentations which could be better illustrated on a poster, and for which the one-on-one interactions could be a better opportunity for other researchers to learn or adapt techniques than a standard conference presentation would provide. Another example is a poster that illustrates connections between a collection of studies by one researcher or research group.

Poster reports can have a maximum of 1 pages, including title, abstract, keywords, and the body of the paper (tables and figures count towards the 1 page limit). References do not count towards the page-length. Papers longer than 1 pages will be returned un-reviewed. An abstract is required for a poster submission, the abstract is included in the printed program.