Council Meeting, Berlin 2008/ Convenors Meeting, Göteborg 2008

ECER 2008: Number of Submissions,Results of Reviewing procedure

When submission time ended, EERA had received 1364 contributions, during thereviewing procedure some late proposals were still accepted, while others werewithdrawn, so that we ended up having 1370 proposals for the main and pre-conference.Compared to ECER 2007 there are small changes in the proportions of differentpresentation formats. Percentages of Posters and Symposia remain constant, we haveslightly less papers (88% compared to 90%) and more roundtabels and workshops ( 2%each compared to 1% each in 2007)ECER 2008 will have about 1220 presentations, 165 in the Pre-Conference and 1055 inthe Main Conference. (Symposia Papers excluded)

Proposals by presentation formats (2008)

Paper: 121788%Workshops: 222%Symposia: 554%Round Tables:232%Posters: 534%

Number of Submissions by Network

The number of submissions by network differ a lot. The four smallest networks (less than20 submissions) are NW 12 “Libraries and Information Centres in Educational Research”(5 proposals), NW 25 “Research on Children’s Rights in Education” (12 proposals), NW 20“Research in Innovative Intercultural Learning Environments” (14 proposals), NW 6 “OpenLearning, Media, Environment and Culture (18 proposals)” and NW 15 “ResearchPartnerships in Education” (19 proposals). The four largest networks (more than 100 proposals) are NW 22 “Research in HigherEducation” (103 proposals), NW 27 “Didactics – Learning and Teaching” (110 proposals),1

Council Meeting, Berlin 2008/ Convenors Meeting, Göteborg 2008NW 10 “Teacher Education” (142 proposals) and the largest: the Postgraduate Network(165 proposals). Network 14, which had been considered to be closed last year, was quiteactive this year and received 42 proposals.

Number of submission by network after redirections

Numbers of submission per network after redirections were processed are slightlydifferent, as some late submissions had been accepted, some papers were withdrawn andall redirected proposals changed their sponsoring network.

Nr. Submissions by Network

528349821916692912454469362360293016164109771529132

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NW1NW2NW3NW4NW5NW6NW7NW9NW10NW11NW12NW13NW14NW15NW16NW17NW19NW20NW21NW22NW23NW25NW26NW27

Rejection rates

The overall rejection rate is quite high this year. About 89 % of the proposals wereaccepted, 11% were rejected. Papers show the highest rejection rate (about 10,7%), theother presentation formats are rarely rejected (between 0,16% – 0,45%) Last year 95% of all proposals were accepted, 5% rejected. The higher rejection rates of 2008 might belinked to the usage of the resubmission option. Networks could ask authors to resubmitwithin a given time. If they did not, submissions were rejected. Secondly, at the end of the reviewing process submissions were rejected after they had been suggested forredirections for the second time. We have had 4 Networks who did not reject at all (NW 9,12, 20 and 21) and others who rejected quite a lot (NW 13, 14, 27).A lot of network did not reject at first, but rather redirected to another network. On the2

Council Meeting, Berlin 2008/ Convenors Meeting, Göteborg 2008other hand, some convenors were dissatisfied to hear that proposals which they hadredirected were rejected by the second network.

Rejections rates within the networks

NetworkAcceptedRejectedSumRejected%

NW 14665211,5%NW 2776837,2%NW 3472494,1%NW 4784824,9%NW 5181195,3%NW 6151166,3%NW 76096913,0%NW 9290290,0%NW 101071712413,7%NW 114775413,0%NW124040,0%NW1349206929,0%NW142883622,2%NW15221234,3%NW16582603,3%NW172542913,8%NW192643013,3%NW20160160,0%NW 2116401640,0%NW 2210631092,8%NW 2365107713,0%NW 251321513,3%NW 26272296,9%NW 27933913229,5%

Rejections Rates and presentation formats