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ACDA NATIONAL Call for Research Poster Sessions
2025 2025 ACDA National Conference

Dallas, Texas
March 18-22 Dallas, TX
March 18-22, 2025

The American Choral Directors Association will sponsor a research session at the conference in Dallas,
Texas, March 18 - 22, 2025. The intent of the research poster session is to bring current research to light that
impacts and informs our profession and to encourage our colleagues in the choral world to stay in touch with
research in choral music. We want to showcase the scholarship that is currently being done--including studies
focusing on rehearsal techniques, performance practice, repertoire choice, or trends within the choral field. Of
particular interest are papers about repertoire, performance practice, conducting pedagogy, rehearsal pedagogy,
vocal development, critical editions, theoretical analysis that impacts performance, and research on vocal or
compositional practices in contemporary choral music.
A poster session is a research report format used widely in the natural and social sciences, and increasingly in
the humanities. The poster session space will include an easel that will accommodate up to a 36” x 48” poster.
Your poster should be a single full color document no larger than 36” x 48” inches in size light enough to be
pinned on the display board with push pins (the conference venue will have pins available).

1. Abstracts submitted for presentation must comply with the following guidelines:

(a) If the data have been presented in whole or substantive part in any forum or at previous research sessions, a
statement specifying particulars of the above must be included with the submission; and papers presented at
other conferences will be considered only if the audience was substantially different (e.g., a state meeting or a
university symposium). A statement specifying particulars of past presentation and venue must be included with
the submission.

(b) The paper may have been submitted but must not be in print or in press prior to the submission deadline of
the conference.

2. The research may be of any type, but a simple review of literature will not be considered for
presentation. Manuscript style of articles representing descriptive, quantitative, or qualitative studies must
conform to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (7th edition, 2020). Authors of other
types of studies (e.g., historical, theoretical) may submit manuscripts that conform to either A Manual for Writers

of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations (K. L. Turabian, 8th edition, 2013) or The Chicago Manual of Style (16th
edition, 2003).

3. The following items are required for submission: An abstract of no more than 3000 characters (including
references) summarizing your research purpose, method, results, discussion, and implications. The name(s) or
affiliation(s) of anyone involved in the submission must not appear in the abstract. Incomplete submissions (e.g.,
those discussing proposed research without any findings) will be rejected.

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