Best Student Presentation Award

The Best Student Presentation Award recognizes and celebrates the excellent research being done and presented by the many students who participate in the annual SSILA meetings. The award is also intended to encourage student participation in the SSILA organization and at the annual meetings.

Deadline: Time of abstract submission

Application process: You’ll be asked to nominate your presentation when you submit your abstract.

Eligibility: Your abstract must be accepted by the Program Committee and you must be a student at the time of the presentation. Co-authored presentations are eligible if all the co-authors are students (or students and community scholars).

Presentations will be evaluated at the conference, by attending non-student SSILA members, based on the following criteria:

  • Introduction: How well was the paper introduced? How well was the research motivated? Is the research question clear?

  • Treatment of data: Were the data well described?

  • Depth and interest of the research results: Were the results and their significance well articulated?

  • Originality: Were the data and/or approach noteworthy for their originality?

  • Conclusion: How well did the data and argumentation support the conclusions reached?

  • Visual presentation: How effective was the handout or slides? Is it well edited, appealing, thorough? Did it facilitate understanding the presentation?

  • Oral delivery: Was the oral delivery effective? Interesting? Was the Question-and-Answer period handled skillfully?

  • Broader social significance: Are any broader impacts, outcomes and/or significance included in the presentation? This may be to the discipline, to the community of speakers/learners, etc.

The Award recipient will be notified and announced as soon as possible after the SSILA conference and will receive a Certificate of Recognition from SSILA.


Previous recipients