Evaluation : the 41st annual congress of the Nordic Educational Research Association : 7-9 March 2013 in Reykjavik

• Main Author: Michael Dal 1954-
• Other Authors: Háskóli Íslands
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: NERA; Ráðstefnurit; Kannanir; Iceland
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1946/26432

This paper describes the process of organizing the 2013 NERA Congress held March 7th to March 9th 2013 in Reykjavik, Iceland. Immediately after the conference the organizing and scientific committee conducted an evaluation survey. It is a quantitative survey where participants are asked about their opinion of the conference. The survey was sent out to all participants and open from March 10th to March 30th. The response rate was 76 % or 500 respondents out of 658 participants. The results indicate that a great majority or 92 % of the respondents rated the conference as good or excellent. A majority of the respondents were very satisfied with the keynote speakers, the theme of the conference and many of the respondents claimed to have had a good experience on the parallel sessions. However, a group of the respondents complained about the quality of the paper presentations. The results of the survey indicate that the conference was successful and that it honored the expectations of the respondents. In the final chapter the author discusses some of the results further among other things whether it is possible to engage and recruit newcomers in NERA networks, whether it is possible to improve the quality of the parallel sessions, whether there should be conference proceedings in the future and the conference language.