ANNUAL _REPORT

1987-1988

T he official year of the Association and the terms of the officers correspond to the Annual Meeting. This account of events of the Association year 1987-1988,

which concluded April 15, 1988, is drawn from minutes of the Council and Executive Board meetings and reports of committees, editors, divisional vice presidents, and staff. Financial reports published here are for Fiscal Year 1988 (July 1,1987-June 30,1988), which closed during the year covered in this annual report.

1987-1988 AERA Officers and Committees

This listing includes officers for the year of the report. Terms of office conclude with the Association's official year, or at the end of the Annual Meeting of the year given, except editors, whose terms correspond to volumes.

Association Council President Richard J. Shavelson President-Elect Nancy S. Cole Immediate Past President Lauren B. Resnick Members-at-Large Richard Snow Merlin C. Wittrock James W. Pellegrino Divisional Vice Presidents Λ-Frank Brown ß-Herbert Kliebard C-Joel R. Levin D-Jason Millman £-Susan J. Thomas F-Wayne Urban G-Frederick Erickson ií-Floraline Stevens /-Lynn Curry /-Patricia H. Crosson K-Walter Doyle Student Representative Joseph Barrett Executive Officer William J. Russell

Executive Board Richard Shavelson Nancy S. Cole Lauren B. Resnick Richard Snow Merlin C. Wittrock Walter Doyle Joel Levin

Divisional Secretaries Λ-Catherine Marshall ß-Catherine Cornbleth C-Lyn Corno D-Richard Lomax £-Sharon Robinson F-Richard Altenbaugh G-Sandra Bowman Damico H-June Bland 7-Ilene B. Harris /-John Weidman K-James Raths

Standing Committees AERA Historian Steve Schlossman

Publications Lorrie Shepard, Chair Leigh Burstein Gaea Leinhardt Joan Burstyn James Pellegrino Professional Development and Training Noreen Webb, Chair Jeri Benson Richard Duran Anthony Nitko John Ogbu Jeannie Oakes Special Interest Group Grace Pung Guthrie, Chair C. Delgado-Gaitan Thomas Carpenter Alvin D. Rivera William Geeslin

Freedom of Inquiry and Human Rights Michael M. Ravitch, Chair Leonard Beckum Lloyd Bond Harris Cooper Judith Torney-Purta

Governmental and Professional Liaison Committee Willis D. Hawley, Chair Andrew Porter Jerome T. Murphy Linda Darling-Hammond Susan Goldman Howard Mehlinger

Role and Status of Minorities in Educational R&D Edmund Gordon, Chair Shitala Mishra Martha Montera Sieburgh Frederick Erickson Karen Swisher Sharon Nelson Barber Gustavo Gonzales

Role and Status of Women in Educational R&D Jacqueline Eccles, Chair Gladys S. Johnston Marsha Lakes Matyas David Tyack Cathy Stasz International Relations Luis Moll, Chair Beverly Lindsay Judith Torney-Purta Jack Schwille Marlaine Lockheed Philippe Duchastel Graduate Student Committee Joseph Barrett

Nominations (1987J Marshall Smith, Chair Bernard Gifford Luis Laosa Carol Tittle Geraldine Clifford

JES Management Committee Ingram Olkin, Chair Susan Embretson William H. Schmidt Larry Hedges Neil W. Henry Bengt Muthen Herbert Weisburg K. Ruben Gabriel

Palmer O. Johnson Memorial Award Scott Paris, Chair Thomas Carpenter Diane Scott-Jones Mary Rohrkemper Edward Haertel

£.F. Lindquist Award Edgar Epps, Chair Gerry Johnston Larry Hubert Maxine Greene Gerald Gillmore

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AERA Distinguished Award Raymond Nickerson, Chair Hüda Borko Jere Confrey John Taylor Barak Rosenshine Sandra Wilson-Pessano Research Review Award Ellen Gagne, Chair Oscar Uribe Sharon Nelson-LeGall Arthur Applebee Mary Lee Smith Arthur Wise Outstanding Dissertation Award Amado Padilla, Chair Kathy Carter Harold Levine Louis Castenell Edward Kifer Outstanding Book Award Steven Koziol, Chair Michael Sedlak Joyce Epstein David Ericsson Lorraine McDonnell Relating Research to Practice Awards Margaret Wang, Chair Joan Herman Alex Law Richard White Floraline Stevens Raymond B. Cattell Early Career Award Carl Bereiter, Chair Greta Morine-Dershimer Thomas Shuell Herbert Ginsburg William H. Schmidt

Ad Hoc Committees ER Evaluation Committee Marvin Alkin Milbrey McLaughlin Gene Glass

Annual Committees 1988 Annual Meeting Program Committee Leigh Burstein, Chair .4-Stephen Lawton ß-Philip L. Smith, Chair C-Elizabeth Ghatala D-Jennifer Greene £-Carole Ames, Chair

Terence Tracey, Co-Chair F-Joseph Newman, Chair

Jeffrey Mirel, Co-Chair

G-Jeffrey Schultz, Chair Joan Talbert, Co-Chair

ií-Paul LeMahieu /-Jon F. Wergin /-Sheila Slaughter K-Thomas Lasley, Chair

Nancy Zimpher, Co-Chair Student Program Lola Aagaard Geoff Mills.

Organization of Institutional Affiliates

Executive Committee

Howard Mehlinger, Chair Frank Murray Guilbert Hentschke Leslie Salmon-Cox B. Dean Bowles Mary Shann James M. Cooper

Delegates and Representatives

Consortium of Social Sciences Associations William J. Russell Federation of Behavioral, Cognitive, and Psychological Sciences Merlin Witrrock Thomas Shuell Joint Committee on Testing Practices Richard Duran Robert Solomon John Bergan Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation Linda Winfield

Editors Educational Researcher William Russell Robert Glaser Review of Educational Research Penelope Peterson American Educational Research Journal Virginia Richardson-Koehler Review of Research in Education Ernst Z. Rothkopf

Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis James W. Guthrie Journal of Educational Statistics Juliet P. Shaffer Handbook of Research on Administration Norman J. Boy an

State and Regional Associations The Association for Educational and Psychological

Research in Kansas The Association of Educational Research Officers of

Ontario California Educational Research Association Delaware Educational Research Association Florida Educational Research Association Georgia Educational Research Association Hawaii Educational Research Association Louisiana Educational Research Association Michigan State Educational Research Association Mid-South Educational Research Association Mid-Western Educational Research Association New England Educational Research Association North Carolina Association for Research in Education Northeastern Educational Research Association Northern Rocky Mountain Educational Research

Association Ontario Educational Research Council Pennsylvania Educational Research Association Southeastern Association for Community College

Research Washington Educational Research Association

Report to the Membership

I am pleased to have this traditional opportunity to high­light the activities of the Association during the past year.

Once again, I believe it has been a banner year for AERA.

Publications

Two Programs received the Governing Board's extended attention during the year: Publications and Governmental and Professional Liaison. The first experimental issue of the new-format Educational Researcher was published in 1987. This tangible product reflecting the considerable planning efforts by the Publications Committee and the Council over a period of two or three years is particularly noteworthy. The lion's share of the credit for the redesigned issues of the ER belong to Editor Robert Glaser; Book Review Editor Richard Snow; and the News and Managing Editor, Michelle von Koch. The trio deserve a special note of ap­preciation for their dedicated efforts to redesign the flagship journal for the Association.

A divisional publication experiment (Issues in Education) was begun a few years ago to provide an outlet for a broader range of scholarship than was common in AERJ. As a result, the decision was made to expand AERJ to include a new sec­tion, "Social and Institutional Analysis." (The older section is "Teaching, Learning, and Development"). The current

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year focused on providing guidelines to delineate the sec­tions and to appoint an editor for the new section.

The first Handbook of Research on Administration was pub­lished the past year. Norman Boyan did a splendid job as editor. The decision was made this year to create a new Handbook of Research on Cumculum; Philip Jackson was re­cently appointed editor. Finally, the decision was made to publish the fifth edition of the Encyclopedia of Educational Re­search (target publication date 1992). Marvin Alkin was ap­pointed to edit the Encyclopedia.

Governmental and Professional Liaison

GPL was the other major AERA program that commanded considerable attention from the GPL Committee, Council, and Executive Board the past year. As Rich Shavelson stated in an ER president's column (May): "The days are long gone when AERA could concern itself exclusively with its scholar­ly mission.. .AERA, then, has come of age. We've no place to hide, not even in our ivory towers. Increasingly, multi­ple publics are turning to AERA for intellectual and political support." An ongoing dialogue ensued; the consensus emerged that the GPL program must expand its purview well beyond OERI to include other agencies with education-related research programs, continue to improve a liaison with other education associations, and be alert to oppor­tunities to educate policymakers on education issues. The Executive Board recognized that it would have to under­take a very active role in establishing policies and monitor­ing the activities of the Program. The rethinking of the pro­gram comes at a propitious time, with the appointment of a talented, experienced, and energetic director, Dr. Gerald Sroufe.

The year also marked an unusual amount of day-to-day activity. To illustrate: congressional appropriations and authorization questions required AERA involvement; issues of peer review in the awarding of grants and contracts were

scrutinized; a position statement was formulated on pro­curement mechanisms; comments were offered on proposed federal priorities for an R & D agenda; popular policy forum luncheons on the Hill were cosponsored with the Institute for Educational Leadership; detailed comments were sub­mitted on potential legislation to fund teacher assessment R&D; and, through AERA's involvement with the Organ­ization of Research Centers, systematic attention was de­voted to the development of the National Research Centers.

Membership and Finances

Membership continues its modest incremental growth to nearly 15,000 researchers. Tables I and provide a member­ship profile and report women and minority participation in the Association. Demographic characteristics have re­mained remarkably stable over the years.

Financially, AERA remains strong with a cumulative gen­eral reserve fund of two million dollars, buttressed by the ownership of a townhouse-office and the adjacent town-house purchased for investment and/or expansion. The As­sociation's assets, which are considerable relative to its size, not only provide stability and enable experimental programs to be launched without regard to funding constraints (i.e., the new ER and the added section of AERJ), but enable dues to remain very modest (relative to benefits) as a result of the interest derived from the investment of funds.

Annual Meeting

The Annual Meeting is a fitting culmination of the Associa­tion year. Hundreds of members are involved in planning, reviewing, and creating the program. Once again the meet­ing eclipsed the 7,000 registration mark. There were over 1,000 sessions (day and night) with over 3,000 presenters. The pressure to be on the program seems to mount each year, yet the Committee has maintained an average accep­tance rate, across divisions, of approximately 50%. The 1988

TABLE 1 Demographic Characteristics of the AERA Membership (3/88)

Category N % Category N % Category N %

Primary Affiliation Ethnic Background Major Responsibility

University 9,010 68 Black or Afro American 521 4 Student 1,562 12 School system 1,711 13 Asian or Pacific Islander 454 4 Research 2,612 20 State agency 414 3 American Indian/Native Evaluation 875 7 Federal agency Industry *

279 251

2 2

American 48 .4 Development 506 4

R&D organization 637 5 Hispanic 321 3 Teaching 4,373 34

Other 948 7 Caucasian (other than Management &

13,286 Hispanic) 10,987 87 administration Other 230 2 R&D 817 6

Primary Discipline 12,561 Other than R&D 1,574 12 Anthropology Economics Education

85 87

8,212

.7

.7 66

Highest Degree Counseling

Counsulting

106

373

1

3

History 127 1 PhD 7,490 56 12,798 Philosophy 86 .7 EdD 2,246 17

Political science 84 .7 Masters 3,216 24 Sex Psychology 2,280 18 Bachelors 303 2 Female 6,102 46 Sociology 305 2 Other 240 2 Male 7,234 54 Stat., math., or

research methodology 1,143

12,409

9 13,495 13,336

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Meeting, with the theme of Research, Policy, and Practice, produced a rich, diverse program. Kudos are in order for the tremendous work of the Program Committee, chaired by Leigh Burstein.

Thank You

The Association could not function without the conscien­tious effort of its members serving on its 40 standing, ad hoc, and annual committees; editors; reviewers of manu­scripts; and the elected leaders. This report details the ac­complishments of Association programs and the individuals who gave generously of their time and expertise. Again this year AERA has benefited from the election of a group of distinguished scholars to serve on the Governing Board. It is perhaps no better illustrated than in the leadership, tremendous dedication, and intellect of AERA's President Richard J. Shavelson. It is a true pleasure to extend the membership's deepest gratitude to the 1987-88 Council.

Committee Reports Professional Development and

Training Committee

T his year the Professional Development and Training Committee offered Summer and Winter Training In­

stitutes focused on policy and practice concerns, and organ­ized pre- and postsessions and mini-courses at the Annual Meeting on both substantive and methodological topics. The institutes and mini-courses were well attended and en­thusiastically received; however, a continuing problem is the generally low enrollment at presessions and the cancella­tion of presessions due to low advance registration. The Committee is undertaking new efforts to generate increased interest in presessions. Next year we will offer fewer, make them invitational, and seek directors with high visibility. We will expand the mini-course offerings and schedule a few on the morning of the first day of the Annual Meeting, be­fore the program begins. As in the past, these will be drawn from submitted proposals. Two institutes will be held this summer, and a third is planned for the winter. One will test whether methodological sessions offered away from the Annual Meeting will draw interest.

Annual Meeting Program Committee

The meeting was a resounding success, judging from the response of the membership and the field. Due to increased proposal submissions, the meeting was the largest ever in terms of the number of sessions scheduled, yet acceptance rates were actually lower than the previous year. Moreover, parity among divisions in acceptance rates also improved. Divisions whose programs were most theme-oriented ex­perienced the greatest demand and the largest increases in their allocations from the previous year. Approximately 50 sessions of particular interest to policymakers and practi­tioners were identified and highlighted in a list circulated to regional educational officials. At the association level, three special policy-oriented sessions involving federal, state, and local political and educational officials were ar­ranged as were sessions focused on recent developments

TABLE 2 Participation of Women and Minorities in

AERA Activities (1987-88)

in two federal agencies. To obtain the observed level of thematic response required a lot of effort by divisional and SIG program chairs, by the AERA central office, and by in­dividual members, which the Program Chair greatly ap­preciated.

As part of the postmortem on the 1988 program effort, the following matters warrant attention.

1. Ensuńng an Audience for Policymakers. Despite a lot of effort and publicity, the Association-sponsored policy-oriented sessions involving governors, chief state school of­ficers, and federal officials drew embarrassingly small au­diences. It is not likely that firm arrangements can be made with politicians to ever meet the deadlines for the main pro­gram, but if AERA wants to expand its influence on educa­tional policy, policymaker participation in annual meetings will continue to be important. But it has to be worthwhile for policymakers and practitioners to attend the meetings.

2. Session Formats. Panel discussions were encouraged as an alternative format to traditional symposia and certain

Category Total Number of

Women Number of Minorities

Council Standing Committees Ad hoc Committees Annual Committees Special Interest Groups (Chairs only)

SIG Chairpersons SIG Program Chairs

Editors (includes book editors)

18 71 4

54

71 72

7

6 27

2 17

36 32

3

2 18 0 8

6 5

0

Editorial Boards

Editorial Board—ER Editorial Board—RER Editorial Board—EEPA Editorial Board—JES Editorial Board—RRE

Total Editorial Boards

12 31 9

24 7_

83

7 11 3 3 2

4 2 1 3 1

Editorial Board—ER Editorial Board—RER Editorial Board—EEPA Editorial Board—JES Editorial Board—RRE

Total Editorial Boards

12 31 9

24 7_

83 26 11

Authors Publ ished

AERJ Journal EEPA Journal RER Journal JES Journal RRE Journal ER Journal

Total Journal Authors

70 45 31 54 16 28

244

27 9 7 4 6 4

3 3 2 2 0 1

AERJ Journal EEPA Journal RER Journal JES Journal RRE Journal ER Journal

Total Journal Authors

70 45 31 54 16 28

244 57 11

1988 Annual Meet ing

Total Number of

Women

Primary Speakers* Critics/Discussants/ Session Chairs/Reactors Invited Speakers

2,554

1,092 21

1,165 (46%)

419 (38%) 6 (29%)

NOTE: Because of the inability to discern the gender of some of the participants, this tally is not completed. *Only first authors are included as primary speakers.

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divisions continued to encourage or require poster sessions as alternatives to paper sessions. Although no systematic data was gathered at the association level, there are indica­tions that panel discussions were well-received while poster sessions engendered mixed reactions.

3. Co-Sponsorship and Redirections of Submissions. Improve­ment is needed in mechanisms for redirecting proposals that don't fit the division/SIG focus and for facilitating jointly sponsored sessions. The AERA Program Chair can help but the membership and divisional/SIG chairs have to initiate the dialogue.

4. Appeals of Program Decisions. There is virtually no ex­isting policy about whether and when appeals to program decisions should be considered. An explicit policy should be established.

It might be advisable to form an Ad Hoc committee whose intent would be to provide more guidance for future pro­gram committees, and hence the membership, about ways of improving the planning and functioning of the annual meeting program.

Special Interest Groups Committee

The primary purpose of the Standing Committee on SIGs is to serve as a liaison between the SIGs and the AERA ad­ministration. During 1987-88, the Committee met only at the 1988 AERA Annual Meeting. Drs. Thomas P. Carpenter, William E. Geeslin, and Grace Pung Guthrie, the Chair, met three times (including the SIG Committee Open Meeting) at New Orleans. The Open Meeting was well attended by the officers of the SIGs. Four key issues emerged.

First, SIGs wanted representation along with ''taxation." An impromptu motion on that unanimously carried and it was recommended that the Committee Chair represent the SIGs at the AERA Council. Second, the demand for the Handbook of Policies and Procedures for SIGs and other infor­mation on SIG operation was so great that it was suggested that the Committee help the Central Office revise the Hand­book to assist all officers, not just the chair. Third, the Com­mittee was asked to survey the SIGs and report to them and Council the state of the SIGs within AERA. After the Committee pointed out past difficulties in getting the Coun­cil's approval to mount a survey, the possibility of revising and expanding Form C as a regular means to gather infor­mation was discussed. Fourth, it was proposed that at least the Committee Chair should review the forms and report to the SIGs either via the Open Meeting or writeups in the ER.

Women's Committee

Work on the Biographical Dictionary continued under the name of Women in Educational Research: A Legacy of a Century. Charol Shakeshaft continues in the role of editor-in-chief.

Jacquelynne Eccles served as the Committee represen­tative to the Willystine Goodsell Award selection commit­tee. The awardee this year is Saari Biklin. Charol Shakeshaft presented the award on behalf of the three sponsoring organizations at the Annual Meeting. The award was made an official AERA award. Charol Shakeshaft, the 1987 award recipient, gave her address at the Annual Meeting. The Committee co-sponsored the annual reception for the award. This was a great success and we continue to see par­ticipation in the award process and the reception as one of

our major activities. The Committee sponsored, or co-sponsored, nine sessions

at the Annual Meeting. The Committee, in conjunction with the SIG-Research on Women in Education sponsored a cof­fee room three afternoons during the Annual Meeting. The Committee evaluated the success of this activity and all reports were positive. We plan to continue this activity next year.

Once again, we had to cancel our mid-year meeting but we still believe these meetings are critical for our 1989 agen­da, and we plan to have one this coming year. We have scheduled it in conjunction with the SIG-RWE's mid-year research conference.

Publications Committee

T he Publications Committee serves AERA by (a) monitor­ing the editorial policies and practices of its publications

and (b) making recommendations to the Council regarding the overall publications program, especially on its respon­siveness to the membership. The Committee met twice dur­ing the year and conducted the following business:

• Monitored the status and operations of each AERA jour­nal and the progress on the redesigned pilot issues of the new Educational Researcher and its evaluation.

• Provided nominations for editors of journals and books. • Discussed implementation of the addition of a new sec­

tion to the Ameńcan Educational Research Journal and provided nominations for each section.

• Nominated Philip Jackson as editor of the Handbook of Research on Curriculum (appointed by Richard Shavelson). There will be 30-40 chapters in the Handbook, each offering a thorough, up-to-date perspective on its topic. Although the volume will be aimed primarily at researchers and graduate students in education, it should also serve as a reference for other interested specialists.

• Attended to the representativeness of publications in several contexts. The Divisions within AERA provide various perspectives of substance and methodology that should be represented in the full range of association publications, both in their contents and in their Editorial Boards. The list of potential article reviewers and Editorial Board members prepared by Division H Vice President Stevens was welcomed by the Committee as a step in the right direction; it is hoped that other Divisions that have been seen as underrepresented will also prepare such lists for consideration.

• Responded to a grievance from an author and discussed suggestions from authors and readers.

• Considered a proposal for an occasional publication on statistical packages.

Governmental and Professional Liaison Committee

T he GPL Committee works with the Council to provide opportunities for more and better education research

and to provide a better understanding of the role of research in the education profession.

The Committee works with the Congress and various de­partments of the Executive Branch, often in concert with

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other groups, and directly with the professional associations. The resources of the Committee include its Chair and mem­bers (appointed by the Council President), its staff, and the Organization of Research Centers (ORC) and the Organiza­tion of Institutional Affiliates (OIA).

Members of the GPL Committee meet three times a year to review federal education policies or procedures that im­pact on the quantity or quality of research; to consider strategies appropriate to the AERA agenda which might in­fluence federal research policies; to review and support the work of the GPL staff; to formulate policy issues for con­sideration of the Council; and to undertake activities to stimulate interest in research among associations represent­ing practitioners. Recent meetings have focused on the roles of the Committee and the staff, and the relation of the Com­mittee to the Council.

Activities during the year included: • review of HR 5 and success in working with others to

insure that the longitudinal study of Chapter I be subject to open competition rather than assigned to NAEP

• continued work on the ' 'Research Agenda" with leading professional associations

• continued work in assisting the Centers to establish a viable organization

• adoption of a policy regarding "mini centers" • creation of pre-annual meeting session with targeted

professional clientele such as the Associate or Deputy Chief State School Officers

• active involvement in oversight hearings of OERI • efforts to support the proposed budget of OERI, includ­

ing the 100% increase for field-initiated research • providing testimony before House and Senate Appro­

priations Committees • assisting OERI with planning for 1990 competitions of

new centers • working with Council on an investigation of peer review

issue in awarding of a center award The OIA met in Washington for an intensive Fall Policy

Meeting. The session included meetings with administra­tion officials and legislative leaders and featured a workshop on "effective congressional relations." The Executive Board of OIA met during the Annual Meeting to plan the agenda for the Fall 1988 meeting which will focus on the transition between administrations, new opportunities for schools of education in education research policy, and ways of achiev­ing closer articulation between research, policy, and legisla­tion.

The ORC met during the Annual Meeting. It prepared a response to the proposed guidelines for center competi­tion, subsequently presented to the administration; pro­posed a more equitable financial structure; and made ten­tative plans for a meeting of Directors. It is providing com­mentary on the planning and timing "guidelines" put out for the new competition at the request of OERI.

GPL plans for 1988-89 focus on the opportunities provided the research community by the transition of presidential ad­ministrations, by the competitions for new centers and labs, and by the reauthorization of OERI. The liaison established with the Chief State School Officers will be pursued, and efforts will be made to re-invigorate the "Working Coali­tion for Educational Research." A major activity of the GPL Committee will be to work with the new Director in prepar­ing his strategic plan for the Council.

Divisions Division A

Administration

T he Division's program at the Annual Meeting was sup­plemented by a visiting symposium on our Handbook

of Research in Educational Administration and the Vice Presidential address by Frank Brown. The Division, with the cooperation of University Council on Educational Ad­ministration, continues to sponsor our Annual Graduate Students Research Seminar.

Division committees on Affirmative Action and Research and Publications were chaired by Michael LaMorte and James W. Guthrie, respectively; our Program Committee was co-chaired by Stephen Lawton and Donald Musella. The Division voted to elevate the Research and Publications Committee from ad hoc status to a standing committee. These committees met at the Annual Meeting and were well attended. The Vice President hosted a working and social meeting for the Affirmative Action Committee with the Vice President-elect James Guthrie and Program Chair-elect Rodney Reed. Our newly elected Secretary, Leonard Valverde, authored the Division Newsletter. We welcome our new Vice President James W. Guthrie and Program Committee Chair Rodney J. Reed. We look forward to a con­tinuation of the Division's research focus on educational ad­ministration, organizations, and policy analysis. The Divi­sion met all of its objectives for the year.

Division B Curriculum Studies

T he Division's Annual Meeting Program with Philip L. Smith serving as Program Chair and Linda M. McNeil

as Co-Chair consisted of 83 papers and 29 symposia (not including sessions co-sponsored with other divisions or SIGs.) The Program Committee accepted 79% of the papers and 74% of the symposia submitted. The invited speaker was Dr. Amy Gutmann, Mellon Professor of Politics at Princeton University; she spoke on "Democratic Education in Troubled Times." Bill Schubert was elected secretary of the division. The Nominating Committee was chaired by Elizabeth Vallance; Geraldine Brownlee, Jean A. King, and Paul Robinson served as the other members.

Awards for Distinguished Contributions in Curriculum Studies were given to Dwayne Huebner, Paul Klohr, and J. Harlan Shores. The Awards Committee was headed by co-chairs Ann L. Lopez Schubert and William H. Schubert. Also serving on this committee were Louise Berman, Frances Bolin, Craig Kridel, Janet Miller, Edmund Short, William Watkins, and George Willis.

Josĕ Rosario (chair) and William H. Watkins made up the Division's Affirmative Action Committee. Division B's Graduate Student Committee, Kate Cruikshank and Amy McAninch, were responsible for arranging this year's Fireside Chat. Professor Maxine Greene of Teachers Col­lege, Columbia University was the special invited guest.

Issues of the Division B Newsletter were prepared and

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distributed by Barry Franklin, Editor and William F. Lynch, Associate Editor. The Handbook for Research on Curriculum will be edited by Philip Jackson, a former vice-president of Divi­sion B and president-elect of AERA.

Division C Learning and Instruction

D ivision C's Executive Committee consisted of Joel Levin (Vice President), Lyn Corno (Secretary), Jim

Pellegrino, Richard Snow, and Merlin Wittrock (AERA Members at Large), Sandra Graham (Affirmative Action Representative), Elizabeth Ghatala (Program Chair), David Merrill and Anita Woolfolk (Appointed Representatives), and Martin Rosenheck and Barbara Snyder (Student Repre­sentatives). For the upcoming year, Penelope Peterson was elected Vice President and Annemarie Palincsar and Taffy Raphael were appointed Program Co-Chairs.

An Awards Committee (Mike Royer, Ch., David Salis­bury, and Karen Wixson) recommended the establishment of two divisional awards: Student Research Recognitions, for outstanding student papers presented at the annual meeting; and Outstanding Journal Article Award, for em­pirical scholarship that appeared in a professional journal during the previous calendar year. The criteria associated with both awards were spelled out in an Awards Commit­tee document, and were modified and approved by the Divi­sional Executive Committee.

Nine students were recognized this year (with a plaque and $200 for travel to the 1988 Convention): Marilyn Chi, Idaho State University; Mary Finch, University of Wiscon­sin, Madison; Jane Gradwohl, Ohio University; Sharon Klet-zien, Temple University; Ruth Knudson, University of Cali­fornia, Riverside; Michael Orey, Virginia Polytechnic Insti­tute and State University; Patricia Pokay, University of Michigan; Karen Swan, Teachers College, Columbia Univer­sity; and Paula Wadill, Purdue University. Next year, fewer student recognitions will be given, but with an increase in travel money to $300. Foreign students are especially en­couraged to apply for this award.

The first Outstanding Journal Article Award will be given at the 1989 Convention. The deadline for submitting articles (on either a self- or other-nomination basis) will be at least 10 weeks prior to the annual meeting. A committee will be formed to review the nominated articles. Eligible articles are those published in journals focusing on learning and instruc­tional issues, and they must be empirical pieces presenting original data.

A comprehensive 1988 Convention Report was prepared by Elizabeth Ghatala. In sum, 484 paper proposals were re­ceived, 57% of which were accepted; 75 symposium pro­posals were received, 69% of which were accepted. Several steps were taken to ensure greater representation of minorities at the assistant chair, reviewer, and paper presenter levels.

One change in the poster session format was incorporated this year: Session chairs were asked to prepare an “over­view poster/' which summarizes, critiques, and extracts common themes in the posters included in the session. This elevated the session chair's role, and was viewed very positively by poster-session attendees. It was decided that

Division C will not continue the mandatory poster session format for papers submitted to the 1989 annual meeting. Posters will continue to be an option that submitters may select, however, with modifications that have been sug­gested by Division C members. (Data collected by Joe Cam-pione at the 1987 annual meeting revealed that about 50% of poster presenters felt that posters were superior to other formats, another 20-30% felt that the poster format was equally good, and 70% of poster attendees felt that the poster format was superior to other formats.)

Official divisional business was dealt with at both Ex­ecutive Committee and general membership meetings held at the 1988 annual convention. Complete minutes of those meetings are available from either Secretary Corno or Vice President Peterson.

Division D Measurement and Research

D uring the previous year, Division D Vice-President Jason Millman was greatly aided by the program com­

mittee (Chair Jennifer Greene, Beverly Anderson, Timothy Ansley, Stephen Dunbar, and Lee Wolfle); the secretary (Richard Lomax); the nomination committee (Chair Robert Brennan, W. James Popham, and Herbert Walberg); and the affirmative action committee (Sylvia Johnson). The con­tribution of the approximately 200 readers of papers and symposia proposals is also greatly appreciated.

In 1988, 117 papers and roundtables and 25 symposia were accepted, representing acceptance rates of 53% and 63%, respectively. The corresponding figures for 1987 are 124 and 20 acceptances and rates of 53% and 71%.

In my view, the principal issue soon to be facing Divi­sion D is the extent to which it shall remain principally a vehicle for creating the Annual Meeting program on mea­surement, statistics, and research methods and the extent to which it should act more like SIGS and smaller divisions by having its own newsletter, awards, and group identity.

Division E Counseling and Human Development

C arole Ames (University of Illinois) Program Chair, and Terrence Tracey (University of Illinois) Program Co-

Chair, submitted the following report on papers submitted and accepted. Counseling: 63 papers submitted, 29 accepted; 5 symposia submitted, 3 accepted. Development: 54 papers submitted, 25 accepted; 6 symposia submitted, 3 accepted.

A total of 117 papers was submitted, representing a 28% increase in submissions over 1987. The acceptance rate was 47%. There was a total of 12 symposia submitted, represent­ing a 40% increase from 1987. The acceptance rate was 58%. In addition, there were 6 invited sessions, 1 conversation hour, 1 Division business meeting, and 2 sessions co-sponsored with SIGs.

The Awards Committee was chaired by John Gaa (Univer­sity of Houston), and included Gail Hackett (University of California—Santa Barbara) and Bruce Thompson (Univer­sity of New Orleans). The winning paper was a two-part

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study conducted by John Snarey, Joseph Reimer, and Lawrence Kohlberg, entitled "The development of social-moral reasoning among Kibbutz adolescents: A longitudinal cross-cultural study" and "The Kibbutz as a model for moral education: A longitudinal study."

Sharon Robinson (Arizona State University), Division E Secretary and Newsletter Editor, published two editions of the newsletter during the year. Heidi Zetzer (University of California—Santa Barbara), the Division E student represen­tative, invited Anne Petersen (Pennsylvania State Univer­sity) as the Division's guest for the Graduate Student Fire­side Chat, wrote an article for the newsletter which ap­peared in the fall edition, and provided several suggestions for increasing the participation of graduate students in the Division Activities. Teresa LaFromboise (Stanford Univer­sity) chaired the Division's Affirmative Action Committee, working with members Pedro Portes (University of Louis­ville), Sharon Nelson-LeGall (University of Pittsburgh), and Diane Scott-Jones (University of Illinois). Marilyn Haring-Hidore (University of North Carolina-Greensboro) chaired the Mentoring Task Force, and reported on a study of men­toring activities of Division E members.

Division F History and Historiography

T he 1988 Division F program sessions at New Orleans were highly successful. Credit for this goes to the par­

ticipants, to the members of the Division program commit­tee, and particularly to the Program Chair, Joe Newman and Co-Chair, Jeff Mirel.

Work continues on Don Warren's edited volume on the history of teaching, teachers, and teacher education, which will be published by Macmillan under AERA auspices some­time in 1989.

Division F members are interested in the implementation of plans for the new section of the Ameńcan Educational Research Journal, which will commence operation during this year. Ellen Lagemann, Division F member, was chosen as editor for this section last fall. After some rumination on her part, she declined the editorship. Division members hope that the new editor will bring the same strengths to the position that Ellen did.

Steven Schlossman, AERA historian, is proceeding with work on a 75th anniversary history of AERA. He is assisted by a graduate research assistant at Carnegie Mellon Univer­sity, Tanjam Narasimhan, and by the work of two Uni-versity-of-Wisconsin-trained educational historians, Barry Teicher and John Jenkins, who have interviewed past AERA officials.

Division members owe thanks to their retiring secretary, Richard Altenbaugh, for the work he has put in for the last two years. We will continue to benefit from Altenbaugh's editorship of the Division F newsletter, The Network. We welcome the new secretary, Linda Perkins.

Finally, thanks to all who have participated in the Divi­sion's activities for the past year and especially to Carl Kaes-tle, former vice president, who has been most helpful in facilitating the work of the current vice president, Wayne Urban.

Division G Social Context of Education

T he main activities of our Division occurred at the an­nual meeting in New Orleans. We sponsored a record

number of 53 scientific sessions in which 236 individuals made presentations. Eight sessions addressed issues of minority equity and four emphasized gender equity and identity. Ten sessions treated general issues of equity, often with a focus on social class. The SIGs Hispanic Research Issues and Research in Bilingual Education co-sponsored sessions with us.

A special symposium and an invited address discussed British qualitative research conducted from the perspective of critical social theory. The invited major speaker was Michael F. D. Young, of the Institute of Education at the University of London. His title was "Curriculum and Democracy: Lessons from a Critique of the 'New Sociology of Education.' “ The discussant for that session was Michael Apple, of the University of Wisconsin.

At our Division G business meeting, attended by 75 peo­ple, a "sense of the meeting" resolution was adopted that criticized the federal government's Office of Educational Research and Evaluation's abrupt closing of a center for research on language and bilingual education. OERI was also criticized for not adhering to professional standards of fairness, peer review, and professional consultation in awarding its grants and contracts. This sense of the meeting was communicated in a letter to Congressman Major Owens, the chair of a congressional committee of oversight for OERI, and also to the AERA president and the AERA staff member concerned with governmental relations.

In 1988 Division G elected a new secretary, Evelyn Jacob, of George Mason University. Nominations for the Vice Presidency for the 1989-1991 term are being sought by the chair of the Nominations Committee, Roger Collins, of the College of Education at the University of Cincinnati, Cin­cinnati, OH 45221. Program co-chairs for the 1989 annual meeting are Concha Delgado-Gaitan and Russel Rumberger. Inquiries and offers to review proposals for papers and sym­posia should be addressed to them at the College of Educa­tion, University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Bar­bara, CA 93106 (805-961-4864).

In conclusion, I am pleased to report that our focus on minority concerns was also reflected in appointments to various of our standing committees and other appointive offices. I want to thank all of those who volunteered time for Division G activities during the past year. Special thanks are due to the 1988 annual meeting co-chairs, Jeffrey Shultz of Beaver College, and Joan Talbert of Stanford University.

Division H School Evaluation and Program Development

D ivision H had its planning meeting for 1987-88 at the annual meeting in Washington, DC. Emerging issues

were identified: (a) how to involve all segments of our mem­bership and capitalize on the diversity of the Division H membership, (b) how to recruit more ethnic minority mem­bers and involve them in leadership roles and responsibili-

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ties, (c) how to publish the work of our award-winning school-based reports, and (d) how to involve our members in the work of the various AERA journals and have articles accepted for publication.

Membership (Sharon Johnson-Lewis). School districts, labs and centers, and others were enlisted to identify potential Division H members. The Division H survey of member­ship satisfaction and needs identified a need for a workshop on how to develop journal articles for AERA.

Program (Paul Le Mahieu). Letters were sent to school superintendents (and other supervisors) identifying Divi­sion H program volunteers. In addition, there was equitable representation on the Division H program (symposia and paper sessions) for K-12 school-based participants and par­ticipants from colleges, universities, labs, and centers.

Affirmative Action (John Griffith and Ofelia Halasa). The importance of affirmative action in Division H was re-estab­lished. The vice-president implemented affirmative action by appointing committee chairs representative of the various ethnic groups, all types of professions, and both sexes.

Program (Paul Le Mahieu) and Annual Meeting Activities (Nancy Enell Law). This year the Invited Address and the Business Meeting were combined, proceeded by a buffet breakfast hosted by American Testronics. With almost 300 attendees, it was a resounding success. Sharon Johnson-Lewis of Detroit was elected as Division H secretary. Certif­icates of excellence were given for a variety of school district reports. Recognition was given for the best presentation and for evaluation utilization.

Pre-Post Press (Peirce Hammond). The survey of members indicated appreciation for the Division H newsletter.

Division H Publications (Joe Hansen). An agreement was made with the CRESST at UCLA to produce two publica­tions from those 1987 and 1988 school-based reports that received certificates of excellence.

Joy Frechtling, Division H secretary for 1986-88, was ap­pointed to the Publications Committee, which oversees AERA journal production. A list of Division H members in­terested in serving on editorial boards and review commit­tees was submitted to the Publications Committee. A request has been made to the Professional Development and Train­ing Committee to hold a journal article writing institute for Division H.

Outstanding Division H work was completed by chairper­sons of such committees as Awards Judging (Ray Turner), Exhibits (Glynn Ligon), Students' Representatives (Michael Wallace and Trudy Wasney), Long-Range Planning (Walter Hathaway and Mike Kean), Nominating (Carol Robinson), and Governmental-Professional Liaison (Torch Lytle), and their committee members.

Division I Education in the Professions

C ongratulations and thanks to all those involved in plan­ning and participating in the 1987-88 program chaired

by Sandra Wilson Pessano; the Research Futures Presession before the annual meeting was well-attended as was the follow-up Town Hall meeting. The results of these delibera­tions will be published in the first fall issue of PERN, the divisional newsletter.

Chuck Friedman, chair of the Awards Committee, pre­sented awards for the Best Paper by an Established In­vestigator to Henk Schmidt and for Best Paper by a New Investigator to Allan Smith. The History Project, chaired by Ilene Harris, had a productive series of meetings, and will present their published results at the 1989 Annual Meeting.

The Monograph Series, chaired by Christine McGuire, in­spires considerable interest and effort. Susan Lourenco's monograph on Leadership Development is in the publication process. Sandra Wilson-Pessano's project on Critical Incident Technique in Professions Education has been accepted for development. The project on Assessment of Clinical Skills in Medical Education, organized by Dave Swanson and et al., is under review by the publisher. Two other projects are being developed by the authors at the outline/proposal stage: Computers and Education in the Profession by George Nowacek and Chuck Friedman, and Assessing Readiness for Professional Practice by Bill McGaghie.

The 1989 Program Chairman, Larry Sachs, with assistance from Janine Edwards, treated us and Division J members to a wonderful social evening on the Mississippi River, followed by more food than we could eat, and more music than we could dance to! The 1990 Program Chair, Judy Calhoun, will organize the 1989 social evening in San Francisco.

The Publications Mentoring Committee chaired by R. Rip-py held a session on Getting Your Ideas Published. The ses­sion was well-attended and resulted in many agreements made for follow-up assistance by the Publications Mentor­ing Committee.

All the way around, it was a great annual meeting or­ganized by Jon Wergin and his committee.

Division K Teaching and Teacher Education

D ivision K continues to grow in membership and estab­lish working relationships with other professional

associations involved in teaching and teacher education. A total of 472 proposals (369 for papers and 103 for symposia) were reviewed by Division K for the 1988 annual meeting and approximately 40% were accepted for presentation. Special thanks are due to Thomas Lasley, Program Chair, and Nancy Zimpher, Co-Chair, for their efforts in manag­ing this enormous task with skill and grace. The Division K Award for Outstanding Research Achievement in Teach­ing and Teacher Education was presented this year to Eleanor R. Duckworth for her book, The Having of Wonder­ful Ideas, published in 1987 by Teachers College Press. The members of the Awards Committee (Gary Griffin, chair; Karen Kepler Zumwalt; and Sharon Oja) are commended for their fine work. The Division also benefitted greatly from Renee Cliffs imagination, dedication, and persistence as editor of the Division K newsletter. Congratulations and best wishes are extended to Greta Morine-Dershimer who was elected Vice President for Division K.

From 1986 to 1988, Vice President Walter Doyle made 29 appointments in Division K; of these, 17 were female (1 Hispanic and 0 blacks) and 12 were male (0 Hispanics and 3 blacks). Among chairs and co-chairs, 5 appointees were white females and 6 were white males.

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