AERA 2024 Annual Meeting 2.5

The AERA Annual Meeting is the world's largest gathering of education researchers and a showcase for groundbreaking, innovative studies in an array of areas. The 2024 Annual Meeting is a dual-component conference. The place-based component will be held in Chicago, IL, April 13-16. The virtual component will be held online May 4-5.

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• Sync your Online Program Schedule to the mobile app by tapping the Gear icon, and then Online Program Schedule Sync.
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• Receive important real-time communications from AERA.
• Find attendees, schedule meetings, and chat with colleagues.
• Interactively locate sessions and exhibitors on the venue maps.
• Visit the Virtual Exhibit Hall.
• Stay in-the-know through the Social Wall.
• Post your event photos and share your experiences on the Activity Feed.
• Find Chicago Local Places.
• And much, much more!

Meeting Theme: Interrogating Consequential Education Research in Pursuit of Truth

"What is 'truth' and who decides? From what evidence, if any, do people construct their positions about truth as they make decisions concerning education? Education research is too often absent, underrepresented, misinterpreted, under-nuanced, and decontextualized in broader societal and public conversations about educational issues in pursuit of truth...

Read more about this year's theme on AERA's website.

Meeting Highlights:

• Opening Keynote Lecture featuring Cornel West
• AERA Presidential Address featuring 2024 AERA President Rich Milner
• AERA Distinguished Lecture featuring Arnetha Ball
• Wallace Foundation Distinguished Lecture featuring Linda C. Tillman
• AERA Awards Ceremony and Celebration

The Research and Science Policy Forum will offer a series of sessions focusing on important issues like innovation in education research, federal research funding, gender and equity in educational measurement, role of education research in national STEM education priorities, and use of geospatial and poverty estimate data to inform education policy. Presenters include policy leaders from key federal science offices and agencies, foundation heads, and leading scholars.

In addition to major lectures and high-profile AERA-wide sessions, hundreds of paper, roundtable, and poster sessions and symposia will be held by AERA divisions, SIGs, and committees. Be sure to explore the sessions offered by those AERA units as well as Professional Development Courses that align with your research interests.

Note: The 2024 Annual Meeting of the National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME) will take place on April 12-15 alongside the AERA Annual Meeting in Chicago, IL.