Sorry for cross-postings. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ UB purchased a membership of CARMA (See below for details). UB students can login the CARMA website (obtain your own ID and password) and watch the 10 live webcasts on research methods and analyses this year. The first webcasting will be on September 28th (12:00 to 1:30 PM) Presenter: Dr. Jose Cortina, George Mason University Title: Goodness of Fit and Structural Equation Models Enjoy! Gunna (Janet) Yun, Ph. D. Assistant Professor Industrial/Organizational Psychology Division of Applied Behavioral Sciences University of Baltimore Phone: 410-837-5315 Fax: 410-837-4059 E-mail: [log in to unmask] ----- Original Message ----- From: [log in to unmask] To: [log in to unmask] Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 2:42 PM Subject: CARMA - Your university has become a member of the 2007-2008 CARMA Consortium Webcast Program Greetings from CARMA, the Center for the Advancement of Research Methods and Analysis at Virginia Commonwealth University. You are being sent this email to make you aware that your university has become a member of the 2007-2008 CARMA Consortium Webcast Program, which is described below. The information in this email is important and will enable you to obtain maximum benefits from your school's CARMA membership. Let me emphasize that there is no financial cost to you as an individual for your participation in our CARMA Consortium Webcast Program: it is an institutional membership that has been paid for by your university. Let me also request that after you have read this email, please distribute it to the faculty, and if relevant, doctoral students from any academic unit at your university so they can also enjoy the benefits of membership. Before I tell you about how you can watch the 10 live webcasts that are a key part of our Webcast Program, and how you can access their recorded versions as well as 26 other recorded lectures in our Video Library, let me give you an overview of the CARMA Consortium Webcast Program. 2007-2008 CARMA Consortium Webcast Program The main purpose of this program is to allow faculty and students the opportunity to hear the latest methodological developments relevant to their research. For many faculty and students, learning about research methods is challenging, and watching and listening to an expert who can present current information in an understandable form is a valuable learning aid. Our Webcasts emphasize the substantive application of methodological developments and can supplement the education that occurs in traditional courses. Membership in the CARMA Consortium Webcast Program occurs at the institutional level, and viewing the live Webcasts as a group can be an important community building activity for department faculty and/or graduate students. The 2007-2008 Consortium Webcast Program will include 10 one-hour lectures on advanced topics delivered live (with video and audio components) by leading methodological scholars from organizational studies (see list below). The live Webcasts are available for group viewing by an unlimited number of participants from each member institution. Also, the Webcast Program will allow viewers to ask questions during the live webcast, will be supported with relevant PowerPoint slides and background references, and will make available recorded versions of each lecture for unlimited individual later viewing throughout the year via our Video Library. Membership will also allow unlimited individual viewing of 26 additional recorded lectures from the CARMA Video Library (see full list below). Viewing Live CARMA Consortium Webcast Lectures at your University On the dates and times provided in the schedule below, you and your colleagues can come together to watch our live webcasts in a single location at your school. As part of our efforts to increase awareness of our program on our members' campuses, we are now asking the Academic Contact (representative) from your school to provide the specific location on the CARMA Website (http://www.pubinfo.vcu.edu/carma/) in which the webcasts can be watched. Specifically, on our website's home page you will find a link at which you can find the location of the viewing room at your school(http://www.pubinfo.vcu.edu/carma/ViewingRooms.asp). We hope that providing this information will enable more faculty and students at your school to enjoy our live webcasts. Accessing the CARMA Video Library As noted above, your school's membership in the 2007-2008 CARMA Consortium Webcast Program also allows any faculty or graduate student at your school to access the 26 recorded lectures in our Video Library, which come from previous CARMA Consortium Webcast Programs offered from fall 2004 through spring 2007. To access the Video Library, for which there is no individual fee required, a faculty or graduate student has to register as a CARMA Website User. The only information required is their name and university email address, but this step must be followed for anyone to access the Video Library. Once a person has registered to become a CARMA Website User, they will receive a password needed to access the Video Library. They will then be able to view the recorded lectures, whenever they wish and as many times as they wish. In our Video Library, they will also find the Powerpoint files for the lectures, as well as reference lists with relevant readings. All of this information on accessing the CARMA Video Library is also available on the CARMA Website (http://www.pubinfo.vcu.edu/carma/AccessingVideoLibrary.asp). You should also know that it is perfectly acceptable for any instructor of any course at your school to use the lectures in our Video Library as part of their course, as assigned or for optional viewing. You may also be interested to know that over the past three years there have been over 4000 individual requests to view the recorded lectures in our Video Library. Our Member Service CARMA exists to provide educational services to promote understanding and improved use of research methods. We do our best to provide all relevant information about our programs on our website. However, we also recognize that sometimes we may have missed important information, or what we have provided is not as clear as we intended. If at any time during the upcoming year you have any question about CARMA or our programs, please do not hesitate to get in touch. The best thing is to email us your questions or comments at [log in to unmask], but we also invite you to give us a call at 804-828-7112. Best wishes for a great year, and we sincerely hope you enjoy the live and recorded lectures we offer as part of our 2007-2008 CARMA Consortium Webcast Program. 2007-2008 Consortium Webcast Program Schedule Fall 2007 September 28 (12:00-1:30 pm, EST) Goodness of Fit and Structural Equation Models Dr. Jose Cortina, George Mason University October 26 (12:00-1:30 pm, EST) Relative Importance of Predictors with Regression Models Dr. James LeBreton, Purdue University November 16 (CARMA Assembly, 2 lectures, 12:00-3:00 pm, EST) Nonlinear Dynamic Models Dr. Paul Hanges, University of Maryland Advanced Panel Methods for Strategy Research Dr. Peter Hom, Arizona State University Spring 2007 January 18 (12:00-1:30 pm, EST) Conditional Reasoning and Measurement of Implicit Personality Dr. Larry James, Georgia Institute of Technology February 29 (12:00-1:30 pm, EST) Measurement Invariance and Organizational Research Dr. Roger Millsap, Arizona State University March 21 (CARMA Assembly, 3 lectures, 12:00-4:00 pm, EST) Restriction of Range Dr. Paul Sackett, University of Minnesota Discontinuous Growth Models Dr. Paul Bliese, Walter Reed Army Institute of Technology Strategy and Research Methods Development Dr. Donald Bergh, University of Denver April 18 (12:00-1:30 pm, EST) Publishing Criteria for Qualitative Research Dr. Michael Pratt, University of Illinois CARMA Video Library (video recordings of past lectures) Dr. Herman Aguinis, University of Colorado- Denver Estimating Interaction Effects with Multiple Regression Dr. Brian Boyd, Arizona State University Current Issues with Organizational Level Measurement and Strategy Research Dr. Dan Brass, University of Kentucky Issues in Social Network Analysis Dr. Gilad Chen, Texas A & M University Conceptualization, Measurement, and Validation of Multilevel Constructs Dr. Claudia Cogliser, Texas Tech University Current Issues with Individual Level Measurement Dr. Dan Dalton, Indiana University Meta-Analysis and Strategy Research Dr. Jeff Edwards, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill Methods for Integrating Mediation and Moderation Dr. Jeff Edwards, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill Moderation in Structural Equation Modeling Dr. Michele Gelfand, University of Maryland Methodological Issues in Cross-Cultural Research Dr. David Harrison, Pennsylvania State University Regression Models for Limited Dependent Variables Dr. David Hofmann, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill Hierarchical Linear Modeling Dr. John Hollenbeck, Michigan State University Contributing to Applied Psychology with Laboratory Research Dr. Larry James, Georgia Institute of Technology Effects of Criterion Reliability on Means/Interactions in Meta-Analysis Dr. Katherine Klein, University of Pennsylvania Issues with Group Level Measurement Dr. James LeBreton, Wayne State University Measures of Agreement for Group Level Research Dr. Jorge Mendoza, University of Oklahoma Repeated Measures ANOVA and MANOVA Dr. Kevin Murphy, Pennsylvania State University Power analysis for Traditional and Modern Hypothesis Tests Dr. Robert Ployhart, University of South Carolina Longitudinal Data Analysis Dr. Steven Rogelberg, Univ. of North Carolina Charlotte Non-responses to Organizational Surveys Dr. Neal Schmitt, Michigan State University Item Response Theory Dr. J. Myles Shaver, University of Minnesota Concerns, Implications, and Alternative Strategies for Testing Mediation Dr. Jeff Stanton, Syracuse University Issues with Internet Data Collection Dr. William Starbuck, University of Oregon Robust Regression Dr. Eugene Stone-Romero, University of Central Florida Testing Mediation Effects with Non-Experimental Research Dr. Robert Vandenberg, University of Georgia Multi-Level Structural Equation Methods Dr. Robert Vandenberg, University of Georgia Latent Growth Models for Longitudinal Data About CARMA The Center for the Advancement of Research Methods and Analysis (CARMA) is a non-profit unit of the School of Business at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), located in Richmond, Virginia, with an enrollment of nearly 30,000 students. It was established in 1997 by Dr. Larry J. Williams, former Chairperson of the Research Methods Division of the Academy of Management and Founding Editor of Organizational Research Methods. Since then CARMA has hosted over 90 events and 120 presentations for faculty and graduate students on advanced research methods topics. Sincerely, Dr. Larry J. Williams CARMA Director University Professor of Management Virginia Commonwealth University