Counted separately for each of their appearances, 110 faculty members and graduate students from UC Santa Barbara, the overwhelming majority from or affiliated with the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education, will take part in 53 events, panels, poster presentations, and workshops at the 2023 American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting in Chicago, Illinois, April 13 – April 16 and its virtual component May 4-5. Each year, the American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting is the world’s largest gathering of education researchers and a showcase for groundbreaking, innovative studies in an array of areas. The scholars, researchers, and teachers will discuss the latest findings on topics as diverse as “Reframing Education Deserts as Places of Desire: Rural Latinx Students' Pursuit of Higher Education” to “A System of Misfits: How COVID-19 Disrupted Undergraduates' Perceived Belonging in the University Bio-Ecological System,” from “Class Enumeration in Mixture Modeling: A Summary of Recommendations and a Look Forward” to “Agency, Co-Learning, and Belonging: A Three-Pronged Approach for Transforming K–12 Learning.”

The complete list of events with Gevirtz School participants is available on line.

The theme of the 2023 AERA Annual Convention is “Interrogating Consequential Education Research in Pursuit of Truth.” The AmericanEducational 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.

AERA Conference 2023