This award recognizes early career scholars whose work has advanced rigorous research relevant to educational practice.
Eligibility: In March 2021, the recipient must be within seven years of earning the doctoral degree (i.e., must have received his/her degree in 2014 or later).
Recognition: The honoree(s) will be recognized at the SREE 2021 Meeting and will receive a $1000 award, a plaque, and an opportunity to organize a panel or symposium session at the Conference. The honoree(s) will be notified by December 15.
Nominations: Both self-nominations and nominations of others will be accepted.
Nominations must include an up-to-date CV, a one-page summary of contributions written by the nominee, and a 1-2 page letter of support provided by an advisor or colleague. The summary of contributions and the letter of support together would ideally address the following domains: (1) quality of research; (2) relevance / contributions of research to educational practice; and (3) contributions to / participation in SREE. All materials should be sent to [email protected] in one email, with the exception of the letter of support, which may be sent separately if desired. Materials must be received by 11:59 PM PT, November 15, 2020.
Criteria for selection: (1) quality of research; (2) relevance / contributions of research to educational practice; and (3) contributions to / participation in SREE.
Eligibility: For the award given in March, author(s) of a paper published in JREE in the preceding year.
Selection Committee: The selection process will be conducted by the JREE editorial team. There is no application or external nomination process.
Recognition: The winner(s) will be recognized at the 2021 SREE Conference and will receive a plaque. The winner(s) will be notified by January 31, 2021.
Criteria for selection: The paper provides a model example of rigorous evaluation of an educational innovation, a particularly important methodological advance, or a thorough and impactful review of theory, contexts, or mechanisms of educational processes.
Past winners:
2019: Sharon Wolf, J. Lawrence Aber, Jere R. Behrman, & Edward Tsinigo (2019) for Experimental Impacts of the 'Quality Preschool for Ghana' Interventions on Teacher Professional Well-Being, Classroom Quality, and Children’s School Readiness, 2:1, DOI: 10.1080/19345747.2018.1517199
2018: Luke Miratrix, Jane Furey, Avi Feller, Todd Grindal & Lindsay C. Page (2018) for Bounding, An Accessible Method for Estimating Principal Causal Effects, Examined and Explained, Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 11:1, 133-162, DOI: 10.1080/19345747.2017.1379576
2017: Julie A. Edmunds, Fatih Unlu, Elizabeth Glennie, Lawrence Bernstein, Lily Fesler, Jane Furey, and Nina Arshavsky for Smoothing the Transition to Postsecondary Education: The Impact of the Early College Model
2017: Howard S. Bloom, Stephen W. Raudenbush, Michael J. Weiss, and Kristin Porter for
Using Multisite Experiments to Study Cross-Site Variation in Treatment Effects: A Hybrid Approach with Fixed Intercepts and a Random Treatment Coefficient
