OTT presents awards for best poster presentations at ACTER

Las Vegas, NV. – December 4, 2013. As is customary, Omicron Tau Theta (OTT) was responsible for the selection and organization of poster presentations conducted at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Career and Technical Education Research (ACTER).  At this annual meeting, OTT accepted 20 poster presentations featuring a variety of topics of interest in the field. During the meeting, poster presentations were further evaluated as they were conducted and the three best poster presentations were recognized with an OTT Poster Presentation Award.

Based on the results of the evaluation, the poster presentation entitled “Moving toward career readiness: Teacher and exhibitor perceptions of a ninth grade career exploration fair” was identified as the Best Poster Presentation. Congratulations to authors Chaney Mosley and Beverly Creul of Metro Nashville Public Schools!

Karen Shaw of the College of Southern Nevada also received an award for 2nd Best Poster Presentation on the results of a project entitled, “Credentialing success in respiratory therapy: Revisiting Bordiue’s of field and capital.” In turn, Jodi K. Walker, Karen L. Alexander, Kimberlee Davis, Sue Couch, and Betty Stout of Texas Tech University, were recognized with an award for 3rd Best Poster Presentation on the results of the project “Texas high school counselors’ perceptions of local implementation of the achieve Texas College and Career initiative.”

Congratulations to OTT Poster Presentations Award winners! Please mark your calendars for next year’s meeting at Nashville, Tennessee, on November 20-22, 2014.