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General Information American Educational Research Association 1430 K Street, NW, Suite 1200 Washington, DC 20005 http://www.aera.net/
Mission AERA, a national research society, strives to advance knowledge about education, to encourage scholarly inquiry related to education, and to promote the use of research to improve education and serve the public good.
Founded 1916 to strengthen education through research.
Members Approximately 25,000 educational researchers in the United States and abroad, including college and university professors, leaders in school systems, federal, state and local agencies, foundations and the private sector.
Divisions Each of AERA’s 12 Divisions focuses on a substantive professional area. Divisions include Administration, Organization, and Leadership (A), Curriculum Studies (B), Learning and Instruction (C), Measurement and Research Methodology (D), Counseling and Human Development (E), History and Historiography (F), Social Context of Education (G), Research, Evaluation, and Assessment in Schools (H), Education in the Professions (I), Postsecondary Education (J), Teaching and Teacher Education (K), and Educational Policy and Politics (L).
Special Interest Groups (SIGs) More than 160 topics, ranging from literacy to technology in the classroom, command AERA members’ attention through SIGs. Learn more
Publications AERA publishes peer-reviewed journals, including the Educational Researcher (available free online); American Educational Research Journal, Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, Review of Educational Research, and an annual Review of Research in Education. The Association publishes important books, such as Studying Diversity in Teacher Education; the Handbook of Education Policy Research; Studying Teacher Education; Black Education; the Handbook of Research on Teaching; Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing (a joint publication with the American Psychological Association and National Council on Measurement in Education); Handbook of Complementary Methods in Education Research; and Estimating Causal Effects Using Experimental and Observational Designs.
Leadership Joyce E. King, AERA President Professor, Georgia State University
Felice J. Levine, Executive Director 1430 K Street, NW, Suite 1200, Washington, DC 20005 Annual Meeting 2014, Thursday, April 3 – Monday, April 7, Philadelphia, PA Some 14,000 educational researchers attend, and 2,000 scholarly papers, posters, and roundtables are presented.