American Educational Research Association

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 more than 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.


AERA Community Guidelines for Facebook

The American Educational Research Association’s (AERA) Facebook page is a place for members, volunteer leadership, staff, and others interested in education research to participate in an open dialogue. We welcome the exchange of ideas, relevant commentary, and dynamic discussions, but ask that you engage respectfully at all times. *

Comments on this page are moderated to ensure all posts meet the community guidelines. By adhering to the following guidelines, you can help us uphold site values and offer a place where all users feel welcomed to participate.

AERA reserves the right to remove submissions that:

• Are profane, deceptive, defamatory, hateful in nature or off-topic
• Encourage illegal activity or are of a sensitive nature
• Include spam or inappropriate links to other sites (please note - more than 3 posts per week by the same user may be flagged as spam and removed)
• Contain solicitations or advertisements (including links)
• Infringe on copyrights or trademarks
• Violate any local, state or federal laws and/or are otherwise unlawful
• Link to off-topic personal profiles, groups or pages

Comments posted on the AERA Facebook page may not be representative of the opinions of AERA, but reflect the position of individual users. We reserve the right to edit or delete any user submitted content at our sole discretion. We also reserve the right to utilize any user submitted content, photos, dialogue, etc., for proprietary purposes including on and across other AERA social media channels.

* Please note – when you make a request for AERA to share articles or work, AERA may or may not post them based on the relevancy of the content and appropriate timing.

In the spirit of transparency, we make an effort to maintain clear community guidelines. If you have any questions, please contact us directly at communications@