Join us for the 3rd SABER Midwest Meeting | Important Dates
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RegistrationWe are thrilled that SABER Midwest will be co-located with the NABT Professional Development Conference this year! Participants of SABER Midwest will register on the NABT website, located here: https://nabt.org/Events-2025-Conference Call for ProposalsWindow for ALL Submissions: July 10 - September 15, 2025 SABER Abstract Submission Guidelines (Short Talks & Posters) The Society for the Advancement of Biology Education Research (SABER) Midwest Regional Meeting Planning Committee invites you to submit abstracts for the SABER Midwest Regional Meeting. The Microsoft CMT service is used for managing the peer-reviewing process for this conference. This service is provided for free by Microsoft and they bear all expenses, including costs for Azure cloud services as well as for software development and support. It is the responsibility of the individual submitting an abstract to review the guidelines below. Abstracts may be submitted for the presentation formats described below. The character limit for your abstract is determined by the presentation format you choose. If we are unable to accept your abstract as a short talk based on reviewer recommendations, it may be selected to be presented as a poster.
B. Instructions When writing your abstract, please refer to the rubrics for evaluating submissions (available on SABER website).
C. Evaluation Criteria All abstracts will be reviewed by multiple reviewers from the SABER community. These reviewers will recommend abstracts based on the abstract rubric established by the SABER Abstract Committee and final decisions will be made by the SABER Midwest Planning Committee. Be sure to consult the correct rubric for the chosen presentation format. For short talks and posters, while different considerations will be applied to each presentation format, all formats will be evaluated in four areas; PLEASE NOTE: Your abstract should include each of these headings followed by a colon so that reviewers can easily find them, e.g., “RESEARCH DESIGN: For this project, we investigated…”:
The CMT link will be posted on this website when abstract submission has opened. This will be a link to the CMT* site for our conference. You will need a CMT account (see top of call for instructions). Once you have a CMT account, you will be able to use the SABER Midwest 2025 CMT site for submission. You can find more information here as well: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/docs/help/author/author-submission-form.html Conference HotelThe SABER Midwest conference will take place in the NABT conference space: St. Louis Union Station Hotel Learn more about reserving a hotel room at this venue on the NABT conference website. |