UC Santa Barbara Gevirtz School Associate Professor Michael Gottfried has been selected as part of the prestigious editorial board for the American Educational Research Journal (AERJ), the flagship journal of the American Educational Research Association. The journal features articles that span all aspects and forms of education and learning and analyze these topics through an empirical methodology. In 2013, the American Educational Research Journal was ranked 15 out of 219 out of international education research journals in terms of impact and citations.
In its acceptance letter to Dr. Gottfried AERJ wrote: “We are thrilled with both the expertise and diversity of our new board and greatly look forward to working with you on manuscripts submitted to AERJ. With your help, we hope not only to maintain the highest standards of educational scholarship that AERJ represents, but also to innovate. We count on you to be our ‘eyes and ears’ in the world of scholarship. We are eager to hear from you about emerging topics, methodologies and theoretical developments that AERJ might bring to the world of educational research. Please contact us with your information and ideas about cutting-edge research so that AERJ can remain the pre-eminent source for the very best educational research. Your commitment to reviewing several manuscripts a year will certainly help us to accomplish that goal.”
Dr. Gottfried has had an accomplished year leading up to his position on the editorial board. He has published articles on chronic absenteeism, presented on truancy, and developed truancy reduction programs.
Dr. Gottfried’s research focuses on the economics of education and education policy. Using the analytic tools from these disciplines, he has examined issues pertaining to peer effects, classroom context, and STEM. His research extends across the K-16 pipeline. Dr. Gottfried has published numerous articles in these areas, with multiple publications in Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, American Educational Research Journal, Teachers College Record, American Journal of Education, Journal of Educational Research, and Elementary School Journal, among others. He is/has been the Principal Investigator on multiple funded research grants from the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health (NICHD), American Educational Research Association, and the Haynes Foundation. He has won multiple scholarly awards for his research, including the Outstanding Publication in Methodology Award in both 2010 and in 2012 given by AERA Division H and the Highest Reviewed Paper Award in 2013 given by AERA SIG: School Effectiveness and School Improvement. He is a member of the Department of Education.