Special Interest Groups (SIGs) 2026-2027
This directory of AERA SIGs is in alphabetical order. Websites & email addresses, when available, are listed. Although we check this page for errors frequently if you should notice a non-working link please let us know. If your SIG is interested in creating or moving its webpage to the AERA website, please let us know.
SIGs: | A–G | H–Q | R–Z
A–G
| Abolition and Carceral Studies in Education (SIG #191) |
| Dues: |
$10 for students; $15 for non-students |
| Access, Detracking, and Tracking (SIG #163) |
| Purpose: |
To engage teachers, administrators, teacher educators, researchers, policymakers, and community members in dialogue about K-12 student access to educational opportunities, college and career preparation, and the tracking and detracking practices that perpetuate or address educational inequities. We aim to serve as a clearinghouse to disseminate relevant research that addresses the structures that perpetuate educational inequities as well as to exchange ideas and information on strategies and best practices for detracking schools. Our vision for K-12 schools ensures that all students, regardless of background, have access to high-quality educational opportunities and the structural supports needed to succeed. |
| Contact: |
Constance Clark, Rutgers University - Newark, Bloomfield, NJ, constance.m.clark@rutgers.edu |
| Dues: |
$5.00 (1 yr) |
| Website: |
Access, Detracking, and Tracking |
| YouTube: |
https://www.youtube.com/@AccessDetrackTrackSIG |
| BlueSky: |
https://bsky.app/profile/accessdetracktrack.bsky.social |
| Accreditation, Assessment, and Program Evaluation in Education Preparation (SIG #174) |
| Purpose: |
The purpose of the SIG is to accumulate and interpret research associated with accreditation, state review processes, or assessment and evaluation of educator preparation programs. |
| Contact: |
Todd McCardle, Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, KY, todd.mccardle@eku.edu |
| Dues: |
$5.00 (1 yr) |
| Website: |
Accreditation, Assessment, and Program Evaluation in Education Preparation |
| Action Research (SIG #2) |
| Purpose: |
The Action Research SIG builds community among those who are engaged in action research and those who teach others to do action research. This is accomplished through dialog about professional development strategies, educational practices and theory, and methods of action research. |
| Contact: |
Grace Huang, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH, g.h.huang@csuohio.edu |
| Dues: |
$10.00 (1 yr) |
| Website: |
Action Research |
| Adolescence and Youth Development (SIG #3) |
| Purpose: |
To bring together educators, researchers, and youth advocates interested in examining ways to improve upon the experiences, behaviors, and perceptions of adolescence and youth as they develop over time. This SIG includes a cross section of researchers interested in diverse topics associated with adolescence and youth development. |
| Contact: |
Marie-Anne Suizzo, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, msuizzo@austin.utexas.edu |
| Dues: |
$10.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr) |
| Website: |
Adolescence and Youth Development |
| Adult Literacy and Adult Education (SIG #4) |
| Purpose: |
Dedicated to research development, policy, and practice in adult literacy and adult education. This SIG takes an interdisciplinary, lifespan perspective on learning and instruction among diverse populations. |
| Contact: |
Amy Pickard, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, pickard@iu.edu |
| Dues: |
$10.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr) |
| Website: |
Adult Literacy and Adult Education |
| Advanced Studies of National Databases (SIG #6) |
| Purpose: |
To advance knowledge of the contexts and practices of education through facilitating awareness and understanding of the rigorous research methods required for valid and reliable analysis of national and state level databases. |
| Contact: |
Anica G. Bowe, Rutgers University - Newark, Newark, NJ, anica.bowe@rutgers.edu |
| Dues: |
$6.00 (1 yr) |
| Website: |
Advanced Studies of National Databases |
| Advanced Technologies for Learning (SIG #7) |
| Purpose: |
To design new technologies that structure educational environments and transform educational practice, and to help the AERA community understand and influence the use of advanced technologies. |
| Contact: |
Candace Walkington, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, cwalkington@smu.edu |
| Dues: |
$15.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr) |
| Website: |
Advanced Technologies for Learning |
| Facebook: |
https://www.facebook.com/SIGATL |
| Arts and Learning (SIG #8) |
| Purpose: |
Recent themes include: arts performance and process in curriculum; arts integration, assessment, and criticism; cultural issues; semiotics creative process; aesthetic education; alternative research methodologies; and constructivism. |
| Contact: |
Sarah Travis, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, stravis2@illinois.edu |
| Dues: |
$15.00 (1 yr); students $10.00 (1 yr) |
| Website: |
Arts and Learning |
| Biographical and Documentary Research (SIG #13) |
| Purpose: |
To explore methodological issues in biographical and documentary research. |
| Contact: |
Margaret-Mary Sulentic Dowell, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, sdowell@lsu.edu |
| Dues: |
$5.00 (1 yr) |
| Website: |
Biographical and Documentary Research |
| Bourdieu in Educational Research (SIG #185) |
| Purpose: |
To provide a space for those interested in Bourdieu’s oeuvre where we explore and reflect on the use of his theories and concepts. |
| Contact: |
Dan Cui, Brock University, Mawson Lakes, St. Catharines, Canada, dcui@brocku.ca; Frederick de Moll, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany, frederick.demoll@uni-bielefeld.de |
| Dues: |
$5.00 (1 yr) |
| Website: |
Bourdieu in Educational Research |
| Career & Technical Education and Workplace Learning (SIG #187) |
| Purpose: |
To explore career and technical/vocational education, workplace learning, career development, human resource development, career issues in the schools (Grades K-12), postsecondary education, adult and lifelong learning, and workforce education at schools and workplaces with the intention to strengthen educational policy and to transform work-based learning. |
| Contact: |
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| Dues: |
$15.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr) |
| Website: |
Career & Technical Education and Workplace Learning |
| Caribbean and African Studies in Education (SIG #86) |
| Purpose: |
To encourage, conduct, coordinate, and disseminate research on education within and between Caribbean and African countries. |
| Contact: |
Laurette Maria Stacy Bristol, University of the West Indies - Cave Hill, St Michael , Barbados, laurette.bristol@uwi.edu; Mercy Agyepong, New York University, New York, NY, mercy.agyepong@nyu.edu |
| Dues: |
$15.00 (1 yr); students $10.00 (1 yr) |
| Website: |
Caribbean and African Studies in Education |
| Facebook: |
https://www.facebook.com/aeraCASE/ |
| LinkedIn: |
https://www.linkedin.com/company/54098197/admin/ |
| Catholic Education (SIG #175) |
| Purpose: |
To support, promote, and disseminate information, research, and evaluation of Catholic education written from a diverse set of perspectives, including interdisciplinary and international issues. |
| Contact: |
Antonio Felix, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA, antonio.felix@lmu.edu |
| Dues: |
$10.00 (1 yr) |
| Website: |
Catholic Education |
| Charters & School Choice (SIG #142) |
| Purpose: |
To promote and disseminate information, research, and evaluation of charter schools written from a diverse set of perspectives. |
| Contact: |
Charisse A. Gulosino, University of Memphis, Aptos, CA, cglosino@memphis.edu |
| Dues: |
$15.00 (1 yr); students $10.00 (1 yr) |
| Website: |
Charters & School Choice |
| Classroom Assessment (SIG #18) |
| Purpose: |
The purposes of the SIG are to promote student learning through improved classroom assessment practices; to assist teachers in improving their classroom assessment practices and understand why it is essential to do so. To achieve these purposes, the SIG includes among its goals the promotion of quality research into classroom assessment practices, using all legitimate research approaches and methods, and the active collaboration with other SIGs and AERA divisions who share an interest in promoting research into classroom assessment. |
| Contact: |
Erin Riley-Lepo, The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ, rileylee@tcnj.edu |
| Dues: |
$10.00 (1 yr); students $7.00 (1 yr) |
| Website: |
Classroom Assessment |
| Cognition and Assessment (SIG #167) |
| Purpose: |
To promote research on educational assessment merging two traditionally distinct fields - cognition and psychometrics |
| Contact: |
Kaiwen Man, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, Mankaiwen@hotmail.com |
| Dues: |
$10.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr) |
| Website: |
Cognition and Assessment |
| Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism and Education (SIG #171) |
| Purpose: |
The purpose of the SIG is to bring together individuals who share a common interest in in-depth, cross-cultural, international dialogue on how Confucianism and Taoism in both classical and contemporary schools of thought can inform educational theory and practice. |
| Contact: |
Jin Jr Shi, Dharma Realm Buddhist University, Ukiah, CA, shijinjr@gmail.com |
| Dues: |
$5.00 (1 yr) |
| Website: |
Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism and Education |
| Facebook: |
https://www.facebook.com/groups/410128165526933/?rdid=vfHuSCs8PlgCLTUW&share_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fshare%2Fg%2F19LJ1CtPqe%2F |
| Critical Educators for Social Justice (SIG #144) |
| Purpose: |
Critical Educators for Social Justice (CESJ) is committed to the struggle for social justice, human rights and democracy for diverse communities. We promote research, teaching, and activism centered on cultural, racial, linguistic, political, and economic self-determination within our classrooms, schools, and communities. A significant objective of CESJ is to promote communication and collaboration among critical educators and researchers working in public schools, universities, and community education programs. We believe that education, as a form of critical understanding, plays a crucial role in transforming society. |
| Contact: |
Shamaine Bertrand, The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ, bertrans@tcnj.edu; LeAnne Salazar Montoya, eeanntoya@gmail.com |
| Dues: |
$15.00 (1 yr) |
| Website: |
Critical Educators for Social Justice |
| Facebook: |
https://www.facebook.com/groups/CESJSIG |
| Critical Examination of Race, Ethnicity, Class and Gender in Education (SIG #27) |
| Purpose: |
To promote the integrated study of race, ethnicity, social class, and gender as lenses for performing critical analyses and evaluations of prevailing theory and practice on education. |
| Contact: |
Janice A. Byrd, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, byrdjanice91@gmail.com |
| Dues: |
$20.00 (1 yr); students $15.00 (1 yr) |
| Website: |
Critical Examination of Race, Ethnicity, Class and Gender in Education |
| Facebook: |
https://www.facebook.com/groups/120611961292065/ |
| Critical Peace Education (SIG #74) |
| Purpose: |
To create a global forum for scholars from diverse backgrounds and with varied perspectives to report and critically explore educational research and promote constructive changes in the areas of peace keeping, peace making, peace building, peace education, nonviolent conflict resolution, reconciliation, mediation, and more. |
| Contact: |
Candice Carter, dr.carter@me.com |
| Dues: |
$15.00 (1 yr); students $10.00 (1 yr) |
| Website: |
Critical Peace Education |
| Facebook: |
https://www.facebook.com/Peace-Education-SIG-AERA-401061593955408/ |
| Critical Perspectives in Early Childhood Education (SIG #29) |
| Purpose: |
The purpose of this SIG is to foster research on and critical analyses of issues in early childhood education and childhood studies and to encourage the development of alternative perspectives and curriculum in early childhood education. |
| Contact: |
Nathaniel Bryan, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, nathaniel.bryan@austin.utexas.edu |
| Dues: |
$15.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr) |
| Website: |
https://sites.google.com/site/cpecesig/home |
| Critical Quantitative Methodologies (SIG #186) |
| Purpose: |
To promote new approaches and foster best practices for conducting and evaluating critical quantitative research; train quantitative researchers how to use these innovative, equity-centered perspectives and research methods to question models, measures, and analysis techniques; and build a scholarship community for critical quantitative researchers. |
| Contact: |
Christen Priddie, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, cpriddie@iu.edu |
| Dues: |
$8.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr) |
| Website: |
Critical Quantitative Methodologies |
| BlueSky: |
https://bsky.app/profile/criticalquant.bsky.social |
| Cultural Historical Research (SIG #30) |
| Purpose: |
Focuses on human action, agency, and development as mediated by culture, history, and activity in the tradition of Vygotsky, Luria, Leont’ev, Bakhtin, Mead, and others. |
| Contact: |
Peter Hick, Edge Hill University, Lancashire, United Kingdom, peter.hick@edgehill.ac.uk |
| Dues: |
$14.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr) |
| Website: |
Cultural Historical Research |
| Facebook: |
https://www.facebook.com/groups/156178274407466/ |
| Data-Driven Decision Making in Education (SIG #179) |
| Purpose: |
Data-Driven Decision Making in Education SIG #179 |
| Contact: |
Kara Lasater, University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, Lockwood, MO, klasater@uark.edu |
| Dues: |
$12.50 (1 yr); students $7.50 (1 yr) |
| Website: |
Data-Driven Decision Making in Education |
| Democratic Citizenship in Education (SIG #150) |
| Purpose: |
To promote democratic citizenship-development research in K-12 classrooms, and to foster an interdependence among citizenship-democratic researchers. |
| Contact: |
Ellen Middaugh, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA, ellen.middaugh@sjsu.edu |
| Dues: |
$10.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr) |
| Website: |
Democratic Citizenship in Education |
| Disability Studies in Education (SIG #143) |
| Purpose: |
Supports the development of disability studies, a series of interdisciplinary modes of critical advocacy scholarship, among educational researchers. |
| Contact: |
Phillandra Samantha Smith, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, psmith06@pitt.edu; Lauren Shallish, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, Lauren.Shallish@rutgers.edu |
| Dues: |
$15.00 (1 yr); students $10.00 (1 yr) |
| Website: |
Disability Studies in Education |
| Facebook: |
https://www.facebook.com/groups/356215848207216 |
| Instagram: |
@aera_ds |
| Districts in Research and Reform (SIG #156) |
| Purpose: |
To bring together researchers, central office administrators, reform support organization leaders, and others interested in key questions of system-wide improvement and leadership. |
| Contact: |
Jennifer R. Cowhy, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, jcowhy@uark.edu; Simone Fried, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, sfried@buffalo.edu |
| Dues: |
$15.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr) |
| Website: |
Districts in Research and Reform |
| Educational Statisticians (SIG #37) |
| Purpose: |
To increase interaction among educational researchers interested in the theory, applications, and teaching of statistics in the social sciences. |
| Contact: |
Jian Li, Kent State University, Kent, OH, jli42@kent.edu |
| Dues: |
$10.00 (1 yr) |
| Website: |
Educational Statisticians |
| Elliot Eisner (SIG #177) |
| Purpose: |
The purpose of the Elliot Eisner SIG is to promote scholarship that applies, extends, critiques, and reinvents Eisner’s scholarship. The SIG will act as a catalyst for the development, implementation, and evaluation of curriculum built upon the foundation that Eisner established. The SIG will provide the opportunity to continue conceptualizing educational criticism and connoisseurship with an eye towards various forms of representation; will encourage new forms of evaluation based on Eisner’s ideas; will provide a home for the continuation of research into discipline-based art education and arts-integration; will continue to look at ways to conceptualize schooling (formal and informal) from arts-based perspectives; and will be a place of mentorship for young scholars of curriculum, school evaluation, qualitative research, the arts, and/or school reform. |
| Contact: |
Todd Hodgkinson, Drake University, Des Moines, IA, todd.hodgkinson@drake.edu |
| Dues: |
$5.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr) |
| Website: |
Elliot Eisner |
| Facebook: |
https://www.facebook.com/Eisner-SIG-488895484598608 |
| Instagram: |
https://www.instagram.com/eisnersig/ |
| Faculty Teaching, Evaluation and Development (SIG #42) |
| Purpose: |
To investigate, promote, and support research and development on college teaching and learning, issues related to faculty evaluation and development, and student ratings of teaching. |
| Contact: |
Lisa A. Lambert Snodgrass, Purdue University, Lafayette, IN, lsnodgra@purdue.edu |
| Dues: |
$12.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr) |
| Website: |
Faculty Teaching, Evaluation and Development |
| LinkedIn: |
https://www.linkedin.com/groups/10024017/ |
| Family, School, Community Partnerships (SIG #43) |
| Purpose: |
To engage with and promote rigorous and innovative research exploring the nature and impact of partnerships between families, schools, and diverse communities, and to encourage evidence-based practices and policies that influence children's learning and development. |
| Contact: |
Lori Delale-O'Connor, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, loridoc@pitt.edu |
| Dues: |
$15.00 (1 yr); students $10.00 (1 yr) |
| Website: |
Family, School, Community Partnerships |
| Fiscal Issues, Policy and Education Finance (SIG #44) |
| Purpose: |
To provide a forum for research in educational finance and its impact on policy for all levels and aspects of education. |
| Contact: |
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| Dues: |
$10.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr) |
| Website: |
Fiscal Issues, Policy and Education Finance |
| Graduate and Postdoctoral Education across the Disciplines (SIG #168) |
| Purpose: |
To identify and support doctoral education as a distinct area of research in higher education; questions to be addressed include the following: How is "doctoral education" or "research education" conceived? What key changes are occurring in doctoral and research education? What opportunities do these changes present for challenging previous pedagogies and developing new ones?; |
| Contact: |
Kelly Hall, Texas A&M University-Kingsville, Kingsville, TX, kelly.hall@tamuk.edu |
| Dues: |
$20.00 (1 yr); students $10.00 (1 yr) |
| Website: |
Graduate and Postdoctoral Education across the Disciplines |
| Instagram: |
https://www.instagram.com/aerasig168/ |
| Grassroots Community and Youth Organizing for Educational Justice (SIG #172) |
| Purpose: |
To advance research on community and youth organizing, particularly in low income communities and communities of color. We will work to build a research community that engages with practitioners in organizing groups, educational institutions and policy-making circles. We seek to foster research that examines the ways in which organizing efforts affect school improvement and educational equity, youth development, community/democratic revitalization and social justice. |
| Contact: |
Julissa Ventura, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, julissa.ventura@marquette.edu |
| Dues: |
$15.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr) |
| Website: |
Grassroots Community and Youth Organizing for Educational Justice |
H–Q
| Hip Hop Theories, Praxis & Pedagogies (SIG #178) |
| Purpose: |
Hip Hop Theories, Praxis & Pedagogies |
| Contact: |
Edmund S. Adjapong, Seton Hall University, Bronx, NY, edmund.adjapong@shu.edu; Stevie D. Johnson, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, thedrview@gmail.com |
| Dues: |
$10.00 (1 yr) |
| Website: |
Hip Hop Theories, Praxis & Pedagogies |
| Instagram: |
https://www.instagram.com/aerahiphopsig/ |
| Indigenous Peoples of the Americas (SIG #48) |
| Purpose: |
Formally the American Indian and Alaska Native SIG, we have evolved in name and focus to promote a better understanding of theoretical-, policy-, and practice-related issues that influence the quality of traditional and contemporary education among indigenous peoples. |
| Contact: |
Theresa J. Stewart-Ambo, University of California - Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, tjambo@UCLA.edu; Kelly Leah Stewart, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, kleahstew@g.ucla.edu |
| Dues: |
$15.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr) |
| Website: |
Indigenous Peoples of the Americas |
| Facebook: |
https://www.facebook.com/groups/AERAIPASIG/ |
| Indigenous Peoples of the Pacific and Beyond (SIG #146) |
| Purpose: |
To research Indigenous education related to the peoples of the Pacific and Pacific Rim, Asia, Africa, and Europe. This research includes Indigenous knowledge and practices that uplift the health and wellbeing of Indigenous peoples. |
| Contact: |
Huia Jahnke, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand, h.t.jahnke@massey.ac.nz |
| Dues: |
$15.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr) |
| Website: |
Indigenous Peoples of the Pacific and Beyond |
| Innovative School Transformation and Reform (SIG #154) |
| Purpose: |
To generate, analyze, interpret, and disseminate research findings related to the implementation and impact of comprehensive school reform. |
| Contact: |
Kerstin Carlson Le Floch, American Institutes for Research, Washington, DC, klefloch@air.org |
| Dues: |
$10.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr) |
| Website: |
Innovative School Transformation and Reform |
| Instructional Technology (SIG #52) |
| Purpose: |
To encourage, promote, and support research on the design and development of instruction and the computer-based, electronic, and non-electronic media technologies that are used for its delivery. |
| Contact: |
Hentao Tang, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, htang@mailbox.sc.edu |
| Dues: |
$10.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr) |
| Website: |
Instructional Technology |
| Facebook: |
https://www.facebook.com/groups/aerasigit |
| International Studies (SIG #54) |
| Purpose: |
To provide a forum for exchanging information among educators involved in research, planning, development, implementation, and evaluation of international studies. |
| Contact: |
Keanen McKinley, William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA, kmckinl1@gmail.com; Madhu Narayanan, Florida International University, Miami, FL, mnarayan@fiu.edu |
| Dues: |
$15.00 (1 yr); students $10.00 (1 yr) |
| Website: |
International Studies |
| Language and Social Processes (SIG #58) |
| Purpose: |
To explore directions in and issues of language and discourse practices, literacy, and learning processes and social contexts through studies grounded in sociocultural, constructivist and constructionist perspectives. |
| Contact: |
Laura A Taylor, Rhodes College, Memphis, TN, taylorl@rhodes.edu |
| Dues: |
$15.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr) |
| Website: |
Language and Social Processes |
| Facebook: |
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1423636351209251/ |
| Large Scale Assessment (SIG #141) |
| Purpose: |
To provide a forum for discussion of the status, issues, and concerns related to large-scale assessment, including practices and innovations in state assessment programs. |
| Contact: |
Judy Tang, Westat, Bethesda, MD, JudyTang@Westat.com |
| Dues: |
$5.00 (1 yr) |
| Website: |
Large Scale Assessment |
| Law and Education (SIG #59) |
| Purpose: |
To focus on legal issues affecting K-12 public and private education, as well as post-secondary education. |
| Contact: |
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| Dues: |
$10.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr) |
| Website: |
Law and Education |
| Leadership for School Improvement (SIG #101) |
| Purpose: |
To examine how leadership of teachers, principals, and superintendents influences instructional capacity resulting in improved student outcomes and how policy guides this collaborative effort. |
| Contact: |
Samantha Viano, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, sviano@gmu.edu |
| Dues: |
$15.00 (1 yr); students $10.00 (1 yr) |
| Website: |
Leadership for School Improvement |
| Leadership for Social Justice (SIG #165) |
| Purpose: |
To promote social justice teaching, research, service, and policymaking agendas, with the corollary aim of seeking to proactively improve educational leadership as a means of addressing equity concerns for underrepresented populations throughout P-20 education; also to share innovative, promising, and research-based programs, policies, and teaching strategies and proactively advocate on behalf of underrepresented populations in educational leadership. |
| Contact: |
Nakia Gray-Nicolas, Queens College, Queens, NY, nakia.graynicolas@qc.cuny.edu |
| Dues: |
$15.00 (1 yr); students $10.00 (1 yr) |
| Website: |
Leadership for Social Justice |
| Facebook: |
https://www.facebook.com/groups/150822794956627 |
| Learning and Teaching in Educational Leadership (SIG #129) |
| Purpose: |
The LTEL SIG brings together professors and graduate students of educational leadership and administration, discipline specialists, educational theorists, curriculum developers, instructional technology specialists, learning specialists, educational researchers, classroom experts, practitioners, policymakers, and others concerned with Learning and Teaching in Educational Leadership. The LTEL SIG provides a forum for: A managed conversation on issues related to learning and teaching in Educational Leadership and Administration; the integration of theoretical quantitative and qualitative studies of learning and teaching in Educational Leadership; discussion of investigations conducted in real educational settings, including investigations involving application of technology to learning and instruction; exploration of innovative methodologies; analysis of the implications of research and practice for learning and teaching in Educational Leadership; and assessment of the relationship of learning and teaching in Educational Leadership to policy development at local, state, and national levels. |
| Contact: |
Erin Anderson, University of Denver, Denver, CO, erin.anderson249@du.edu |
| Dues: |
$10.00 (1 yr) |
| Website: |
Learning and Teaching in Educational Leadership |
| Learning Sciences (SIG #39) |
| Purpose: |
Purpose: To bring a variety of disciplinary perspectives and empirical approaches to the study of learning as it occurs in school, online, in the workplace, at home, and in the community, and to the design of novel environments with the potential to facilitate learning more effectively. |
| Contact: |
Yilang Zhao, University of Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, yilangzh@buffalo.edu |
| Dues: |
$10.00 (1 yr); students $7.50 (1 yr) |
| Website: |
Learning Sciences |
| Lives of Teachers (SIG #62) |
| Purpose: |
To promote the interchange of ideas and scholarly activities focused on inquiry into the lives of teachers. Teachers shall be defined as those working with students in classroom and tutorial settings, from pre-school through university. Research shall be viewed as inclusive of methods appropriate to the question of study and topics such as teacher narrative, biography, research on teacher development, including career trajectories, teacher characteristics, beliefs, and attitudes, and teaching as a profession; accounts of teachers lives in different times and in different countries; and portrayal of teachers in written literature, film and television. |
| Contact: |
Lora Bartlett, University of California - Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, lorab@ucsc.edu |
| Dues: |
$10.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr) |
| Website: |
Lives of Teachers |
| Facebook: |
https://www.facebook.com/groups/283212348677268/ |
| Longitudinal Studies (SIG #63) |
| Purpose: |
To support and foster the understanding of longitudinal research designs and analyses in education and the use and dissemination of longitudinal data and substantive findings, including data from national (e.g., NCES), state (e.g., state administrative/tracking systems), and local (e.g., district) sources. |
| Contact: |
Felice Levine, flevine@aera.net |
| Dues: |
$5.00 (1 yr) |
| Website: |
Longitudinal Studies |
| Mentorship and Mentoring Practices (SIG #66) |
| Purpose: |
To foster mentoring programs and experiences, initiating research on the topic and providing networking and support. |
| Contact: |
Robin Brandehoff, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, CO, robin.brandehoff@ucdenver.edu |
| Dues: |
$10.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr) |
| Website: |
Mentorship and Mentoring Practices |
| Middle-Level Education Research (SIG #88) |
| Purpose: |
To improve, promote, and disseminate educational research reflecting early adolescence and middle-level education. |
| Contact: |
Stacie Pettit, George College & State University, Augusta, GA, stacie.pettit@gmail.com |
| Dues: |
$15.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr) |
| Website: |
http://mlersig.net/ |
| Facebook: |
https://www.facebook.com/mlersig/ |
| Mixed Methods Research (SIG #158) |
| Purpose: |
To support, encourage, and increase dialogue and idea exchange among educational researchers utilizing mixed methods and those interested in integrating qualitative and quantitative research approaches. |
| Contact: |
Marcia Gail Headley, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, gheadley@udel.edu |
| Dues: |
$15.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr) |
| Website: |
Mixed Methods Research |
| Facebook: |
https://www.facebook.com/aerammrsig/ |
| Montessori Education (SIG #181) |
| Purpose: |
To support, promote, and disseminate information, research, and evaluation of Montessori education and philosophy, in both the public and private sector, through diverse research approaches and collaborations. |
| Contact: |
Angela Murray, University of Kansas, Eudora, KS, akmurray@ku.edu |
| Dues: |
$5.00 (1 yr) |
| Website: |
Montessori Education |
| Facebook: |
https://www.facebook.com/AERAMontessoriSIG |
| LinkedIn: |
https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8446484/ |
| Moral Development and Education (SIG #67) |
| Purpose: |
To promote discussion about controversies and areas of agreement within the fields of moral development and education, and to provide informal opportunities for social interaction. |
| Contact: |
Brandy P Quinn, Louisville High School, Woodland Hills, CA, brandy.quinn1276@gmail.com |
| Dues: |
$10.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr) |
| Website: |
Moral Development and Education |
| Motivation in Education (SIG #68) |
| Purpose: |
To advance the understanding of motivational processes in education, particularly by promoting research, exchanging ideas and perspectives, and by developing practices and interventions to improve learner motivation. |
| Contact: |
Toni Rogat, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, tkrogat@purdue.edu |
| Dues: |
$20.00 (1 yr); students $10.00 (1 yr) |
| Website: |
http://motsig.org |
| YouTube: |
https://www.youtube.com/@aeramotivationsig7616 |
| Multicultural/Multiethnic Education: Theory, Research, and Practice (SIG #162) |
| Purpose: |
To provide a forum for the introduction, promotion, consideration, interaction of theory, research and practices regarding multicultural and multiethnic education, broadly defined, within all educational, cultural, societal and social settings, contexts, levels and locations. |
| Contact: |
Christopher J.P. Sewell, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO, drchristophersewell@gmail.com |
| Dues: |
$15.00 (1 yr); students $7.00 (1 yr) |
| Website: |
Multicultural/Multiethnic Education: Theory, Research, and Practice |
| Facebook: |
https://www.facebook.com/groups/AERAMulticulturalEducationSIG |
| Instagram: |
https://www.instagram.com/aeramcme/ |
| Narrative Research (SIG #145) |
| Purpose: |
The Narrative Research SIG (Special Interest Group) of AERA is dedicated to supporting conversations about the place of narratives in educational research including but not limited to phenomenological, literary, critical, and performance conceptions of narrative analysis. The purpose of the Narrative Research SIG is to provide a forum for the exchange of information among individuals interested in informing/rethinking narrative research through a variety of narrative research studies in/with participants in a variety of educational settings. |
| Contact: |
Leia Cain, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, LeiaCain@utk.edu |
| Dues: |
$10.00 (1 yr); students $6.00 (1 yr) |
| Website: |
Narrative Research |
| Open Scholarship (SIG #190) |
| Purpose: |
To investigate and promote the effectiveness and use of open scholarship and its application to education research efforts. This SIG will serve as a forum for: 1. ) sharing and developing open scholarship research practices, 2.) methods for teaching open scholarship principles and practices, and 3.) meta-scientific educational research. |
| Contact: |
Matthew C. Makel, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada, matthew.makel@gmail.com |
| Dues: |
$5.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr) |
| Website: |
Open Scholarship |
| Paulo Freire (SIG #159) |
| Purpose: |
To honor Freire’s legacy by promoting scholarship that applies, extends, critiques, and reinvents Freirean pedagogy. Also, to promote historical scholarship that looks at the life of Paulo Freire and the context of his ideas and practices. Finally, to act as a catalyst for the creation of new forms of critical pedagogies that build upon the foundation that Freire established. |
| Contact: |
Roseli Fischmann, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, roselif@usp.br |
| Dues: |
$10.00 (1 yr) |
| Website: |
Paulo Freire |
| Facebook: |
https://www.facebook.com/groups/PauloFreireAERASIG |
| Philosophical Studies in Education (SIG #76) |
| Purpose: |
Dedicated to the philosophical study of education and encourages scholarship within all types of philosophical study. |
| Contact: |
Samantha Deane, University of Notre Dame, North Weymouth, MA, sdeane2@nd.edu |
| Dues: |
$10.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr) |
| Website: |
https://aerasig76.wixsite.com/sig76 |
| Politics of Education (SIG #152) |
| Purpose: |
To foster and support the conduct, dissemination, discussion, and application of research on the political functions and outcomes of education at all levels. |
| Contact: |
Cory Brown, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, brown.2903@osu.edu |
| Dues: |
$20.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr) |
| Website: |
Politics of Education |
| Qualitative Research (SIG #82) |
| Purpose: |
To provide opportunities for discussion related to the philosophy, purposes, and methodological issues surrounding the use of qualitative research in social and educational contexts. |
| Contact: |
Stephanie Shelton, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, sashel@unc.edu |
| Dues: |
$20.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr) |
| Website: |
Qualitative Research |
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| Research Focus on Education and Sport (SIG #164) |
| Purpose: |
To dispel the many myths associated with education and sport over the years, shed light on this undervalued and underresearched area of inquiry, and enrich current research agendas on education and sport by making them more relevant. The continual dialogue with the community of scholars, and the ensuring knowledge and perspectives offered by this kind of engagement would inform us of the realities and concerns of education and sport in general. |
| Contact: |
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| Dues: |
$7.00 (1 yr) |
| Website: |
Research Focus on Education and Sport |
| Facebook: |
https://www.facebook.com/Research-Focus-on-Education-Sport-AERA-SIG-120845847979371/ |
| Research in Reading and Literacy (SIG #11) |
| Purpose: |
To stimulate communication and inquiry among researchers, policymakers, and others interested in research in reading and literacy from various disciplines and theoretical perspectives. |
| Contact: |
Emily M. Rodgers, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, rodgers.42@osu.edu |
| Dues: |
$20.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr) |
| Website: |
Research in Reading and Literacy |
| Research on Evaluation (SIG #90) |
| Purpose: |
To create a community of researchers and practitioners interested in research on, dissemination of, and applications of evaluation theory and evaluation methods. |
| Contact: |
DreSha Singleton, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, dreshatsingleton@gmail.com |
| Dues: |
$5.00 (1 yr) |
| Website: |
Research on Evaluation |
| Research on Giftedness, Creativity, and Talent (SIG #91) |
| Purpose: |
The purpose of this SIG is to provide leadership that (1) encourages and promotes high-quality scholarship addressing giftedness, creativity and talent, (2) creates a community of scholars and leaders in the field, (3) facilitates communication and dissemination of research both within and outside the field, (4) nurtures future scholars, and (5) advances research in the field. |
| Contact: |
Michael Matthews, University of North Carolina Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, michael.matthews@uncc.edu |
| Dues: |
$10.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr) |
| Website: |
Research on Giftedness, Creativity, and Talent |
| Facebook: |
https://www.facebook.com/AERA.ROGCT/ |
| Research Use (SIG #100) |
| Purpose: |
To understand how research is used to improve education policy and practice, and to foster improvement of dissemination and use of research findings. |
| Contact: |
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| Dues: |
$5.00 (1 yr) |
| Website: |
https://sigru.org/wp/ |
| School Community, Climate and Culture (SIG #104) |
| Purpose: |
To examine the school in terms of the community, climate, and culture as perceived not only by the researcher but also by students, teachers, administrators, parents, and community members at large. |
| Contact: |
Jennifer R. Renick, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, renickj1@msu.edu |
| Dues: |
$5.00 (1 yr) |
| Website: |
School Community, Climate and Culture |
| School Effectiveness and School Improvement (SIG #105) |
| Purpose: |
To exchange ideas and information and encourage further research and evaluation on theory and practices related to issues of school effectiveness and improvement. |
| Contact: |
Amanda S. Mayeaux, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Saint Martinville, LA, amanda.mayeaux@louisiana.edu |
| Dues: |
$5.00 (1 yr) |
| Website: |
School Effectiveness and School Improvement |
| School-University Partnership Research (SIG #79) |
| Purpose: |
The School-University Partnership Research (SUPR) SIG is committed to exploring the intricacies of school-university collaborations. We offer a context where scholars can exchange insights, forging deeper understanding through collective discussion, while also nurturing an environment of mutual camaraderie and support. At the heart of SUPR SIG's mission is the promotion of comprehensive research — one that draws from a rich mosaic of theoretical frameworks and is armed with a diverse arsenal of investigative techniques. Yet, amidst this diversity, we staunchly uphold the timeless core principles championed by seminal school-university partnership movements, including the likes of the Holmes Group, NNER, Research Practice Partnerships, and NAPDS. Through SUPR SIG, we cultivate a space for introspection, analysis, critique, and, most importantly, collaboration, inviting educators from every corner of the educational spectrum and spanning diverse institutional contexts. |
| Contact: |
Valerie Hill-Jackson, Texas A&M University, Frisco, TX, vhjackson@tamu.edu |
| Dues: |
$10.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr) |
| Website: |
School-University Partnership Research |
| Science Teaching and Learning (SIG #122) |
| Purpose: |
To promote research that advances the understanding and improvement of teaching, learning, and understanding in the natural sciences, including philosophical, psychological, and sociocultural issues. |
| Contact: |
Clausell Mathis, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, mathisc8@msu.edu |
| Dues: |
$15.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr) |
| Website: |
Science Teaching and Learning |
| Social Studies Research (SIG #89) |
| Purpose: |
To initiate, exchange, and advance research relevant to social studies education found in P-12 schools and classrooms with students, teachers, and administrators; teacher education programs with teacher candidates, practicing teachers, school administrators, and teacher educators; and in relationship to active citizenship in families, communities, society, and policymakers. |
| Contact: |
Timothy Monreal, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, tmonreal42@gmail.com |
| Dues: |
$10.00 (1 yr) |
| Website: |
Social Studies Research |
| YouTube: |
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCltKUdiz-gHbyVoWKHpcmiw |
| BlueSky: |
https://bsky.app/profile/ssr-sig.bsky.social |
| Socio-Political Issues in Mathematics and Science Education (SIG #184) |
| Purpose: |
To support and build a research network among critical mathematics and science educators and researchers who generate diverse and new research approaches and focus on sociopolitical dimensions of mathematics and science education. |
| Contact: |
Daniel Morales-Doyle, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL, moralesd@uic.edu |
| Dues: |
$10.00 (1 yr); $10.00 (1 yr) |
| Website: |
Socio-Political Issues in Mathematics and Science Education |
| Facebook: |
https://www.facebook.com/AERASIG184 |
| Special and Inclusive Education Research (SIG #113) |
| Purpose: |
To promote the study and dissemination of topics, research-based practices, and research methodologies related to implementation, access, equity, progress, and outcomes in the education of persons with disabilities and their families, advancing equality of opportunity, full participation, independent living, and economic self-sufficiency throughout the lifespan. |
| Contact: |
Chelsea Tracy-Bronson, Stockton University, Galloway Township, NJ, Chelsea.Tracy-Bronson@Stockton.edu; Mallika Scott, California State University, Fullerton, Fullerton, CA, mhscott@fullerton.edu |
| Dues: |
$10.00 (1 yr); students $7.00 (1 yr) |
| Website: |
Special and Inclusive Education Research |
| Facebook: |
https://www.facebook.com/groups/370159613550543 |
| LinkedIn: |
https://www.linkedin.com/in/aera-sier-sig-5b7037318/ |
| Instagram: |
https://www.instagram.com/aerasiersig |
| Stress, Coping, and Resilience (SIG #117) |
| Purpose: |
To act as a clearinghouse to promote research and exchange of ideas and information concerning stress and coping in education and related organizations. |
| Contact: |
Elizabeth F. Levine-Brown, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, ebrown11@gmu.edu |
| Dues: |
$15.00 (1 yr); students $10.00 (1 yr) |
| Website: |
Stress, Coping, and Resilience |
| Structural Equation Modeling and Multilevel Modeling Methods (SIG #189) |
| Purpose: |
To develop, study, and disseminate new and existing analytic approaches and estimation techniques for structural equation models (also known as latent variable modeling and covariance analysis) and/or multilevel data analysis models (also known as random effects models, mixed effects models, and hierarchical models, and with additional historical roots in handling clustering effects such as cluster-robust and bootstrapped standard errors), collectively known as multivariate quantitative methods, that support best practices in education research and related social science disciplines. |
| Contact: |
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| Dues: |
$10.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr) |
| Website: |
Structural Equation Modeling and Multilevel Modeling Methods |
| Studying and Self-Regulated Learning (SIG #121) |
| Purpose: |
The Studying and Self-Regulated Learning (SSRL) SIG is dedicated to promoting the development of theory and research in academic studying and self-regulated learning across the life span. The SIG brings together researchers and practitioners to share expertise in all aspects of self-regulated learning, including motivation, metacognition, learning and studying strategies, and the ways in which learners manage their emotions and environments. |
| Contact: |
Allyson Pitzel, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, aapitzel@ua.edu; Aloysius C. Anyichie, Brandon University, Brandon, Canada, AnyichieA@BrandonU.CA |
| Dues: |
$15.00 (1 yr); students $10.00 (1 yr) |
| Website: |
https://ssrlsig.org |
| Facebook: |
https://www.facebook.com/groups/AERASSRL/ |
| Supervision and Instructional Leadership (SIG #51) |
| Purpose: |
To provide a professional forum for those who are involed in current research, theory, and practice in the supervision of instruction. |
| Contact: |
Megan E. Lynch, Boise State University, Boise, ID, meganlynch@boisestate.edu |
| Dues: |
$10.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr) |
| Website: |
Supervision and Instructional Leadership |
| Survey Research in Education (SIG #123) |
| Purpose: |
To provide a forum for educational researchers interested in improving survey methods, fostering communications among survey researchers, and promoting the development and dissemination of scholarly work. |
| Contact: |
Jeffrey Albrecht, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, jrajr@umich.edu |
| Dues: |
$7.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr) |
| Website: |
Survey Research in Education |
| Systems Thinking in Education (SIG #124) |
| Purpose: |
To focus on applications of systems thinking principles to address various issues in education. |
| Contact: |
Lok-Sze Wong, University of North Texas, Denton, TX, Lok-Sze.Wong@unt.edu |
| Dues: |
$10.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr) |
| Website: |
Systems Thinking in Education |
| Teacher as Researcher (SIG #126) |
| Purpose: |
To support classroom inquiry research and participation in AERA by PK-12 practitioners. |
| Contact: |
Kevin Cataldo, Newark Board of Education/Montclair State University, Newark, NJ, cataldok1@montclair.edu |
| Dues: |
$10.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr) |
| Website: |
Teacher as Researcher |
| Teaching and Learning Research Methods (SIG #81) |
| Purpose: |
To promote dialogue and research on the teaching and proper usage of quantitative and qualitative educational research methods. |
| Contact: |
Vicki Plano Clark, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, planocvi@ucmail.uc.edu |
| Dues: |
$10.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr) |
| Website: |
Teaching and Learning Research Methods |
| Technology, Instruction, Cognition and Learning (SIG #119) |
| Purpose: |
TICL focuses on theoretical foundations, fundamental research and technical advances at the intersection of four disciplines: Technology, Instruction, Cognition & Learning (TICL). TICL also publishes TICL, an interdisciplinary international journal, which publishes many of the presentations at annual TICL sessions. |
| Contact: |
Ayesha Sadaf, University of North Carolina Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, asadaf@charlotte.edu |
| Dues: |
$10.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr) |
| Website: |
Technology, Instruction, Cognition and Learning |
| LinkedIn: |
https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12970186/ |
| Test Validity Research and Evaluation (SIG #72) |
| Purpose: |
Brings together educators and researchers concerned with test validity research in education, evaluation, and psychology, and encourages content analysis methods from traditional to computer-aided analysis. |
| Contact: |
Hao Song, Association of State and Provincial Psychology Boards, Tyrone, GA, hsong@asppb.org |
| Dues: |
$10.00 (1 yr); students $6.00 (1 yr) |
| Website: |
Test Validity Research and Evaluation |
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