Awards


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Best Paper Award

This award highlights excellence, creativity, and innovation in research in the lives of teachers. Papers should reflect critical study on the lives of teachers from preschool teachers to graduate school and beyond.

Eligibility criteria: 

To be considered for an award, the potential nominations should meet the following eligibility criteria: 

  • to be a fully developed paper on the topic of lives of teachers; 
  • to be submitted to the Best Paper Award Committee by an established deadline;
  • to be 8,000 words or less and in APA format; and
  • to be unpublished and completed; 
  • should be substantively different from what was previously presented if the paper was presented at past AERA or other than AERA meetings; and  
  • the papers accepted for an upcoming AERA meeting are eligible to be considered for an award.    
  • and substantively different from what has been previously presented at other conferences.