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SIGs: | A–G | H–Q | R–Z | All |

A–G

Academic Audit Research in Teacher Education (SIG #174)
Purpose:	The purpose of the SIG is the accumulation and interpretation of research findings from audits associated with the TEAC, NCATE, or state review processes and used in the evaluation of the competence of the graduates of teacher education programs and the quality of the programs themselves.
Contact:	Joyce E. Many, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, jmany@gsu.edu
Dues:	$15.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr)
Website:	Academic Audit Research in Teacher Education

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:	Craig Alan Mertler, Arizona State University - West, Phoenix, AZ, Craig.Mertler@asu.edu
Dues:	$5.00 (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:	Tanner LeBaron Wallace, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, twallace@pitt.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:	Aydin Durgunoglu, University of Minnesota - Duluth, Duluth, MN, adurguno@d.umn.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:	Carolyn Elizabeth Barber, University of Missouri - Kansas City, Kansas City, MO, barberce@umkc.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:	Nathan Holbert, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY, nrh2118@tc.columbia.edu
Dues:	$10.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr)
Website:	https://www.facebook.com/SIGATL

Applied Research in Immersive Environments for Learning (SIG #173)
Purpose:	To steward a robust community of educators, scholars, and practitioners dedicated toward research in and on immersive environments. Using a variety of research methods, we support a diverse approach to understanding the optimal use of digitally-enhanced immersive worlds and environments, such as (but not limited to), virtual reality, virtual worlds, augmented reality and immersive educational games. We are interested in developing a comprehensive research agenda intended to encompass the breadth and scope of learning potentialities, affordances, challenges, and shortcomings of immersive learning environments.
Contact:	Krista Terry, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC, terrykp@appstate.edu
Dues:	$10.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr)
Website:	http://www.arielsig.net

Arts and Inquiry in the Visual and Performing Arts in Education (SIG #53)
Purpose:	This international inter-disciplinary SIG offers a space for visual artworks, live performance and theoretical/conceptual praxis, facilitating a platform for artistic researchers and practitioners.
Contact:	Mary Beth Cancienne, James Madison University, Charlottesville, VA, cancieme@jmu.edu
Dues:	$10.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr)

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:	Jen Katz-Buonincontro, Drexel University, Media, PA, jlk333@drexel.edu
Dues:	$10.00 (1 yr); students $7.00 (1 yr)
Website:	Arts and Learning

Arts-Based Educational Research (SIG #9)
Purpose:	To provide a community for those who view education through artistic lenses, who use a variety of arts-based methodologies, and who communicate understandings through diverse genres.
Contact:	Richard E. Siegesmund, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL, richard.siegesmund@gmail.com
Dues:	$10.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr)
Website:	http://www.abersig.com
Facebook:	https://www.facebook.com/groups/arts.cacs?ap=1

Bilingual Education Research (SIG #12)
Purpose:	To promote research in bilingual education and to provide a forum for innovative approaches in this field of inquiry. This SIG addresses all ethnoliguistically diverse groups.
Contact:	Susan Hopewell, University of Colorado - Boulder, Longmont, CO, susan.hopewell@colorado.edu
Dues:	$15.00 (1 yr)
Website:	Bilingual Education Research

Biographical and Documentary Research (SIG #13)
Purpose:	To explore methodological issues in biographical and documentary research.
Contact:	Lucy E. Bailey, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, lucy.bailey@okstate.edu
Dues:	$5.00 (1 yr)
Website:	Biographical and Documentary Research

Brain, Neurosciences, and Education (SIG #14)
Purpose:	Provides a venue for research in the neurosciences that may inform and inspire educational research, and for rigorous educational research thus informed.
Contact:	Bruce McCandliss, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, Brucemc@stanford.edu
Dues:	$10.00 (1 yr)
Website:	http://www.aera-brain-education.org/

Career and Technical Education (SIG #134)
Purpose:	To discuss topics in vocational/career and technical education, career development, human resource development, career issues in the schools (Grades K-12), postsecondary education, adult and lifelong learning, and workforce education.
Contact:	James E. Bartlett, II, North Carolina State University, Cary, NC, james_bartlett@ncsu.edu
Dues:	$5.00 (1 yr)

Caribbean and African Studies in Education (Formerly "Research Focus on Education in the Caribbean and Africa") (SIG #86)
Purpose:	To encourage, conduct, coordinate, and disseminate research on education within and between Caribbean and African countries.
Contact:	Berte Van Wyk, Stellenbosch University, Matieland, South Africa, bwyk@sun.ac.za
Dues:	$15.00 (1 yr); students $10.00 (1 yr)
Website:	Caribbean and African Studies in Education (Formerly "Research Focus on Education in the Caribbean and Africa")

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:	Karie Huchting, Ph.D., Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA, khuchtin@lmu.edu
Dues:	$10.00 (1 yr)
Website:	Catholic Education

Chaos and Complexity Theories (SIG #17)
Purpose:	To apply, advance, and extend chaos and complexity theories to inquiry, research, and theory related to educational contexts.
Contact:	Donald L. Gilstrap, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, dlgilstrap@ua.edu
Dues:	$12.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr)
Website:	http://chaoscomplexityineducation.wikidot.com/

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:	Priscilla Wohlstetter, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY, wohlstetter@exchange.tc.columbia.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:	Heidi L. Andrade, University at Albany - SUNY, Albany, NY, handrade@albany.edu
Dues:	$8.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr)
Website:	Classroom Assessment

Classroom Management (SIG #19)
Purpose:	To promote research on classroom organization and management, alternative discipline models, group and learner social interactions, and approaches to teacher education.
Contact:	Sandee G. McClowry, Ph.D., RN, FAAN, New York University, New York, NY, sandee.mcclowry@nyu.edu
Dues:	$15.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr)
Website:	https://sites.google.com/site/aeratest2012/home

Classroom Observation (SIG #20)
Purpose:	The purpose of the Classroom Observation SIG is to provide members access to current research in observation techniques in educational settings.
Contact:	Nancy Dubinski Weber, Texas A&M University - College Station, Cypress, TX, ndweber@tamu.edu
Dues:	$10.00 (1 yr)
Website:	Classroom Observation

Cognition and Assessment (SIG #167)
Purpose:	To promote research on educational assessment merging two traditionally distinct fields - cognition and psychometrics
Contact:	Laine Bradshaw, University of Georgia - Athens, Athens, GA, laineb@uga.edu
Dues:	$10.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr)
Website:	Cognition and Assessment

Computer and Internet Applications in Education (SIG #22)
Purpose:	To promote research and evaluation on the use of computer-based information and communications resources and software for learning, instruction, assessment, and accomplishment by students, teachers, and administrators.
Contact:	James Hatten, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, jameshatten@usf.edu
Dues:	$10.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr)
Website:	Computer and Internet Applications in Education

Conflict Resolution and Violence Prevention (SIG #23)
Purpose:	To provide a forum to discuss conflict resolution, peer mediation, and violence prevention, focusing on research, theory, and improvements in implementation in schools.
Contact:	Cary J. Roseth, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, croseth@msu.edu
Dues:	$5.00 (1 yr)

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:	Jing Lin, University of Maryland - College Park, College Park, MD, jinglin@umd.edu
Dues:	$5.00 (1 yr)
Website:	Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism and Education
Facebook:	https://www.facebook.com/pages/Confucianism-Taoism-and-Education/602503046456159

Constructivist Theory, Research and Practice (SIG #25)
Purpose:	To facilitate communication and to promote theory, research and improvement in practices of educators at all levels from a constructivist or developmental perspective.
Contact:	Violeta Vainer, FLACSO Argentina, Buenos Aires, Argentina, jacaranda@infovia.com.ar
Dues:	$5.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr)
Website:	http://constructsig.wikispaces.com/

Cooperative Learning: Theory, Research and Practice (SIG #26)
Purpose:	To exchange information about current research, theory, and improvements in implementation of cooperative learning procedures; to provide a structured forum for discussions related to cooperative learning.
Contact:	David W. Johnson, University of Minnesota, Edina, MN, dwj@visi.com
Dues:	$5.00 (1 yr)

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:	Katy Swalwell, Iowa State University, Des Moines, IA, katyswalwell@gmail.com
Dues:	$15.00 (1 yr)
Website:	http://www.cesjsig.org/

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:	Norvella P. Carter, Texas A&M University, Cypress, TX, ncarter@tamu.edu
Dues:	$20.00 (1 yr); students $15.00 (1 yr)
Website:	Critical Examination of Race, Ethnicity, Class and Gender in Education

Critical Issues in Curriculum and Cultural Studies (SIG #28)
Purpose:	To support and promote transdisciplinary research of education as experience. The SIG de-stabilizes commonly held boundaries of educational research beyond contemporary curriculum discourses. Members pursue curriculum inquiry using critical perspectives, and performative, auto-ethnographic and conceptual approaches to ask sociocultural, political, and theoretical questions.
Contact:	Julie C. Garlen, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA, jgarlen@georgiasouthern.edu
Dues:	$7.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr)
Website:	Critical Issues in Curriculum and Cultural Studies

Critical Perspectives on 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:	Will Parnell, EdD, Portland State University, Portland, OR, parnellw@pdx.edu
Dues:	$15.00 (1 yr)
Website:	https://sites.google.com/site/cpecesig/home

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:	Carrie L. Lobman, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, carrie.lobman@gse.rutgers.edu
Dues:	$10.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr)
Website:	Cultural Historical Research

Data-Driven Decision Making in Education (SIG #179)
Purpose:	Data-Driven Decision Making in Education SIG #179
Contact:	Ellen B. Mandinach, WestEd, East Windsor, NJ, emandinach@yahoo.com
Dues:	$5.00 (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:	Caroline R. Pryor, Southern Illinois University - Edwardsville, Edwardsville, IL, capryor@siue.edu
Dues:	$10.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr)

Design and Technology (SIG #31)
Purpose:	To foster research, teaching, service and innovation in design education and technology education in formal educational settings and in other learning environments.
Contact:	Kui Xie, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, xie.359@osu.edu
Dues:	$10.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr)
Website:	Design and Technology

Dewey Studies (formerly known John Dewey Society) (SIG #56)
Purpose:	To keep alive Dewey's commitment to the use of critical and reflective intelligence in the search for solutions to problems in education and culture.
Contact:
Dues:	$10.00 (1 yr)
Website:	Dewey Studies (formerly known John Dewey Society)

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:	Elizabeth J. Grace, National Louis University, Chicago, IL, elizabeth.grace@nl.edu; Alicia A. Broderick, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ, brodericka@mail.montclair.edu
Dues:	$15.00 (1 yr); students $10.00 (1 yr)
Website:	Disability Studies in Education

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:	Sarah L. Woulfin, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, sarah.woulfin@uconn.edu; Alex J. Bowers, Ph.D., Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY, Bowers@exchange.tc.columbia.edu
Dues:	$15.00 (1 yr); students $10.00 (1 yr)
Website:	http://districtsig.blogspot.com/

Doctoral 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:	Susan K. Gardner, University of Maine, Orono, ME, susan.k.gardner@maine.edu
Dues:	$20.00 (1 yr); students $10.00 (1 yr)
Website:	Doctoral Education across the Disciplines

Early Education and Child Development (SIG #32)
Purpose:	To promote research that has implications for theory, policy, practice, and teacher development in the diverse contexts serving children from birth to age eight.
Contact:	Nancy K. File, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, nfile@uwm.edu
Dues:	$15.00 (1 yr)
Website:	http://www.aera-eecd-sig.org/

Education and Philanthropy (SIG #148)
Purpose:	To bring together researchers and members of the philanthropic foundation and non-profit communities interested in developing and disseminating knowledge about the role of philanthropy in educational policy and practice.
Contact:	Kathleen P. deMarrais, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, kathleen@uga.edu
Dues:	$10.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr)

Educational Change (SIG #155)
Purpose:	This SIG adopts an interdisciplinary and international approach to understanding many aspects of educational change, including large-scale reform, school-initiated change, school improvement, and classroom-level change.
Contact:	Helen Janc Malone, Institute for Educational Leadership, Potomac, MD, Helen_Malone@mail.harvard.edu
Dues:	$12.00 (1 yr); students $7.00 (1 yr)
Website:	Educational Change
Facebook:	https://www.facebook.com/AERAEducationalChangeSIG155

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:	Walter L. Leite, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, walter.leite@coe.ufl.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:
Dues:	$10.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr)
Website:	Elliot Eisner
Facebook:	https://www.facebook.com/pages/Eisner-SIG/488895484598608

Environmental Education (SIG #33)
Purpose:	To advance and critique environmental education research.
Contact:	Nora Timmerman, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, Nora.Timmerman@nau.edu
Dues:	$10.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr)
Website:	Environmental Education
Facebook:	http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_154479114604736&ap=1

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:	Suzanne Young, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, syoung@uwyo.edu
Dues:	$12.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr)
Website:	Faculty Teaching, Evaluation and Development

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:	Joan M.T. Walker, Pace University, Arlington, VA, jowalker@nsf.gov
Dues:	$10.00 (1 yr); students $8.00 (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:	Tammy Kolbe, The University of Vermont, Warren, VT, tkolbe@uvm.edu
Dues:	$10.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr)
Website:	Fiscal Issues, Policy and Education Finance

Foucault and Contemporary Theory in Education (SIG #45)
Purpose:	Dedicated to the historical/philosophical studies of education that engage the writings of Michel Foucault.
Contact:	David W. Kupferman, University of Hawaii West Oahu, Kapolei, HI, dkupferman@gmail.com
Dues:	$5.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr)
Website:	Foucault and Contemporary Theory in Education

Grassroots Community & Youth Organizing for Education Reform (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:	Jerusha Osberg Conner, Villanova University, Villanova, PA, jerusha.conner@villanova.edu
Dues:	$15.00 (1 yr); students $5.00 (1 yr)
Website:	Grassroots Community & Youth Organizing for Education Reform