AERA - Relating Research to Practice Award

Organization: American Educational Research Association

Established to recognize outstanding contributions toward increasing the understanding and proliferation of links between education research and enhanced education practice, this award is granted for excellence in each of two categories:Interpretive Scholarship-This category recognizes published works from sources other than peer-reviewed journals or books. Such works include interpretive articles, essays, or testimonies that relate research to practice. Professional Service-This category recognizes an individual who has effectively established a strong, beneficial relationship between education research and practice through direct involvement with the education community. This would include, for example, working with a school district or state department of education to implement promising and/or alternative solutions derived directly from research findings and applied to locally identified issues.