2016 Recipient
Michelene T. H. Chi Arizona State University
Dr. Michelene (Micki) T. H. Chi, Dorothy Bray Endowed Professor of Science and Teaching at Arizona State University, is an internationally renowned cognitive scientist and one of the founding figures of the modern learning sciences. She has published in leading journals in cognitive psychology, experimental psychology, child development, and educational psychology, among other areas. Her scholarship has created a unique and influential line of theory and research that has spanned nearly 40 years. Dr. Chi’s groundbreaking work has changed the way we think about how children develop and use knowledge, through the development of a comprehensive theory of instruction, major empirical findings, and seminal implications for educational practice.
From 1964 through 1973 the award was given jointly with Phi Delta Kappa (PDK) and was known as the AERA-PDK Awards. After 1974 AERA took sole responsibility for making the selection.
2015 - Michelene T.H. Chi 2014 - Douglas Fuchs 2014 - Lynn S. Fuchs 2014 - Adam Gamoran 2013 - Alan H. Schoenfeld 2012 - Guadalupe Valdés 2011 - Catherine Snow 2010 - P. David Pearson 2009 - Linda Darling-Hammond 2008 - David Wolcott Johnson 2007 - Milbrey Wallin McLaughlin 2006 - Stephen W. Raudenbush 2005 - Gene V. Glass 2004 - Lorrie A. Shepard 2003 - Anthony S. Bryk 2002 - Shirley Brice Heath 2001 - Robert LeVine 2000 - Edmund Gordon 1999 - David K. Cohen 1998 - John Ogbu 1997 - Robert Linn 1996 - David C. Berliner 1995 - Maxine Greene 1994 - Richard C. Anderson 1993 - John I. Goodlad 1992 - David Tyack 1991 - Ann L. Brown 1990 - Lauren Resnick 1989 - Lee S. Shulman 1988 - N. L. Gage 1987 - Michael Cole 1986 - Courtney B. Cazden 1985 - Jerome S. Bruner 1984 - Eleanor Maccoby 1983 - Anne Anastasi 1982 - Jeanne S. Chall 1981 - Donald T. Campbell 1980 - Julian C. Stanley 1979 - John Bissell Carroll 1978 - B. F. Skinner 1977 - Lee J. Cronbach 1976 - Robert Glaser 1975 - Urie Bronfenbrenner 1974 - James S. Coleman 1973 - Robert J. Havighurst 1972 - Robert M. Gagne 1971 - Patrick Suppes 1970 - Benjamin S. Bloom 1969 - Lawrence A. Cremin 1968 - Jean Piaget & Barbel Inhelder 1967 - E. F. Lindquist 1966 - T. R. McConnell 1965 - Ralph W. Tyler 1964 - Arthur I. Gates