2024 Award Recipient 

Kris D. Gutiérrez
University of California, Berkeley

Dr. Kris D. Gutiérrez, the Carol Liu Chair and Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, is the recipient of the 2024 Distinguished Contributions to Research in Education Award. Prof. Gutiérrez is a learning scientist and qualitative methodologist who has produced significant transformational research. Dr. Gutiérrez has made seminal contributions in the learning sciences through a cultural-historical theoretical approach to learning and development, expanding our understanding of culture in learning. Her most influential methodological contributions include multi-sited utopian methodologies described as social design-based experiments. Her highest recognitions from professional and scientific organizations include election as AERA President and election to the National Academy of Education, the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, and the British Academy.

The Distinguished Contributions to Research in Education Award is the premier acknowledgment of outstanding achievement and success in education research. Its purpose is to publicize, motivate, encourage, and suggest models for education research at its best. The winner of the award will be invited to give the Distinguished Contributions to Research in Education Award Lecture at the following Annual Meeting.

Past Recipients

2023 - James A. Banks
2022 - William H. Schmidt
2021 - Carol D. Lee
2020 - Howard Gardner
2019 - Robert Slavin
2018 - Gloria J. Ladson-Billings
2017 - Henry M. Levin
2016 - Michelene T. H. Chi
2015 - Andrew C. Porter
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