Call for submissions

Submissions should fit into one of the conference themes, and can include course-ready examples, classroom tested techniques or approaches that engage students, pedagogical approaches or innovations that motivate students and support learning, and/or effective teaching practices or assessments of instructional effectiveness. For your submission, consider the course context (e.g. course goals) and which format might be better to present your work (Presentation or Poster). 

Course context to consider for your submission: 

Research methods in psychology
🍏 Early knowledge and skills (novice learners; typically lower division)
Including work relevant to courses that focus on learning to consume research, introduction to critical thinking and scientific reasoning, research terminology

🍎 Experience with producing research (experienced learners; typically upper division)
Including work relevant to courses that focus on learning to produce research, scientific writing, student presentations

​​Statistics in psychology
🍏 Early knowledge and skills (novice learners, typically lower division)
Including work relevant to courses that teach foundational statistical concepts, computations, and beginner analytic software skills

🍎 Experience with statistical analyses and data interpretation (experienced learners; typically upper division)
Including work that covers advanced conceptual and computational knowledge, advanced analytic software skills, and interpretation and writing of results

​Content courses
🍎 Supporting research methods and statistics thinking in context
Including work integrating research methods and statistics literacy across the psychology curriculum

Conference themes to consider for your submission: 

• Authentic Assessments

• Engaging and Innovative Course Activities 

• Inclusive Teaching Practices and Policies

• Teaching Toolkit: Compelling Examples with Shared Materials

• Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

Instructions for submission:

The submission form will ask for the following:

• Teaching experience: Describe in 1-2 sentences your experience teaching this course (e.g., number of terms taught, number of students per class, curriculum context, institution type, amount of teaching assistant support)

• Abstract (to be included in the conference program): 900 character max; approx. 120 words

• Description (not included in the conference program) 2250 character max; approx. 300 words

  • Please address the following prompts by labeling each section with the corresponding letter (a, b, c, or d):

a. What is the topic of your proposal?

b. What are your relevant learning outcomes, course context, and description of the teaching technique?

c. How did you implement this technique in the context of your course?

d. Describe the effectiveness of your teaching technique using your own data or by making a connection to learning science/evidence-based pedagogy.

• • In your response, include how your teaching approach or technique is innovative and how it aligns to the conference themes.

Presentation formats: 

Presentations (20-min concurrent virtual talk):
The presentation can focus on effective pedagogical aspects or approaches you use to teach research methods or statistics courses. The presentation should cover: (i)  why you have made these particular pedagogical decisions related to the topic and (ii) illustrate how they work in the context of the course. This format is best for presenting course-ready assignments or examples, pedagogical approaches or innovations that motivate students and support learning, and will likely include evidence of effectiveness and/or a connection to learning science/evidence based pedagogy.

Posters (60-min time in a shared virtual space, Gather, with a roaming audience):
During the poster session you will be using a virtual environment to share a static infographic or poster and interact with other conference attendees via live video and audio or text chat. This format is best for more casual sharing and conversations about your resources, demos, creative use of textbooks, in class experiments, projects ideas, and useful data sets.

To apply click on the application link below. For scheduling purposes we ask that you limit your submissions to two submissions per presenting author.​ If you have any questions about submitting please email: psychtermsconference@gmail.com

​APA-sponsored prizes will be awarded for the best presentation and poster.

The deadline to submit is October 23th, 2026