AERA has named Daniel McCaffrey and Li Cai as the new editors for the Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics (JEBS). McCaffrey and Cai will begin reviewing manuscripts on July 1, 2014, and will become editors of record for a three-year term beginning in January 2015. Cosponsored by AERA and the American Statistical Association, JEBS provides an outlet for research papers that develop original statistical methods useful for the applied statistician working in educational or behavioral research.
“We are honored to be the next editorial leaders of the Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics,” said McCaffrey and Cai. “We will maintain and grow JEBS as the first choice of methodologists across the education and behavioral sciences by publishing papers on emerging topics that will help drive research in these fields. This approach will ensure JEBS continues to lead the methodological research agenda.”
McCaffrey and Cai will assume the editorship currently held by Matthew Johnson, associate professor of statistics and education at Columbia University’s Teachers College, and Sandip Sinharay, chief research statistician at CTB/McGraw-Hill.