The American Educational Research Association (AERA), founded in 1916, is concerned with improving the educational process by encouraging scholarly inquiry related to education and evaluation and, by promoting the dissemination and practical application of research results.
AERA is the most prominent international professional organization, with the primary goal of advancing educational research and its practical application. Its 25,000 members are educators; administrators; directors of research; persons working with testing or evaluation in federal, state and local agencies; counselors; evaluators; graduate students; and behavioral scientists.
The broad range of disciplines represented by the membership includes education, psychology, statistics, sociology, history, economics, philosophy, anthropology, and political science.
Here you will find the subset of journals published by AERA which use Open Journal Systems for electronic manuscript submission and peer review.
For a complete list of all AERA journals currently in publication please visit http://www.aera.net/publications/?id=308.
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Over the course of the next few weeks, OJS will be phased out and all manuscripts submitted to AERA journals will be managed through ScholarOne’s Manuscript Central system. If you currently have a manuscript under review in OJS, you may continue to monitor its progress in OJS until a decision is reached. Currently, AERJ/SIA, EEPA, JEBS, and RER are live. Any new or revised manuscripts should be submitted to:
AERJ/SIA: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/aera-sia
EEPA: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/eepa
JEBS: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jebstats
RER: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/rer
Educational Researcher
Educational Researcher (ER, begun in 1971; 432 pp./yr.) is published nine times per year and is received by all members of AERA. It contains scholarly articles that come from a wide range of disciplines and are of general significance to the educational research community.
Features Section
ER's Features section publishes articles that report, synthesize, review, or analyze scholarly inquiry, with emphasis placed on articles that focus on the interpretation, implication, or significance to research work in education. Manuscripts should be of interest to the broad community of educational researchers. Manuscripts that speak only to scholars in particular subfields should be submitted to more specialized journals. Articles should run from 5,000 to 7,500 words and should be accompanied by an abstract of 75-120 words. Manuscripts should be typewritten and double-spaced. It is particularly important that manuscripts be suitable for blind review.
Research News and Comment Section
The Research News and Comment section seeks manuscripts that analyze trends, policies, utilization, and controversies concerning educational research. The section also provides an outlet for researchers and others summarizing policies, taking points of view, and suggesting ways to increase support, quality, visibility, and utilization of educational research. Research News and Comment does not publish single studies or narrow topics because the ER audience spans a broad and diverse readership of disciplines, methods, and methodologies. Manuscripts should be in APA format and no longer than 6,000 words (not including the required under-250-word abstract).
Reviews Section
ER will regularly publish reviews, scholarly essays, and critiques of written works and other media of those engaged in disciplined inquiry. Reviews are solicited by the book review editor. Essay reviews critically link several books across a topic; short reviews cover a single book of broad interest for a line of work. In addition, reviews of contemporary films, music, and other media are also appreciated. Reviews typically range from 1,000 to 4,000 words; the length of the review is arranged in consultation with the book review editor. All reviews should be written in APA format.
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Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics
Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics provides an outlet for papers that develop original statistical methods useful for the applied statistician working in educational or behavioral research. Typical papers will present new methods of analysis. In addition, critical reviews of current practice, tutorial presentations of less well-known methods, and novel applications of already known methods will be published. Papers discussing statistical techniques without specific educational or behavioral interest will have lower priority, as will papers consisting mainly of Monte Carlo calculations evaluating existing techniques or practices. Papers that present empirical results about teaching are generally not acceptable.
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Review of Educational Research (RER)
The Review of Educational Research is a forum for reviews of previously published work in a field that is populated by scholars from diverse traditions. Because of the increasing complexity of issues facing education and the varied perspectives that can be used to examine them, it is important that we develop tools that help scholars, policymakers, and others to make decisions and take action. We believe a review is this kind of a tool.