

            Dear Colleagues,

            The 4th European Survey Research Association (ESRA)
            conference is

            scheduled to take place in Lausanne, Switzerland from July
              18-22, 2011.

            
            We would like to invite you to submit a paper for a session
            titled

            “The development and validation of psychological short
              scales and their

              benefits for survey research”.

            
            We would welcome paper submissions on the development of
            standardized

            short-scale measures, particulary in the field of
            psychological measures.

            
            Please submit an abstract of 250 words or less via the ESRA
            website,

          
http://surveymethodology.eu/conferences/

            by January 14, 2011.


            You will be asked to select a session when you submit the
            abstract -

            please select the session title given above, which is the
            6th session listed
            under
/"15 - questionnaire design
            andtesting".///

            
            Four papers will be accepted for the 90 minute session. You
            will be

            notified in early February 2011 regarding the status of your
            submission.

            
            Please forward this request for submissions to others who
            may be

            interested in this session.

            
            Please see the conference website for additional
            information:

            _http://www.surveymethodology.eu/conferences/_.

            Please see

_http://surveymethodology.eu/conferences/lausanne-2011/sessions/296/_

            <
http://www.surveymethodology.eu/conferences/lausanne-2011/sessions/256/%22
>for

            background information on this session.

            
            We welcome your submission and look forward to the
            opportunity of making

            the ESRA 2011 conference a success!

            
            Kind regards

            
            Beatrice Rammstedt, GESIS Mannheim Germany
            (beatrice.rammstedt@gesis.org)

            Jürgen Schupp, SOEP/DIW Berlin Germany (jschupp@diw.de)