This award recognizes early career scholars whose work has advanced rigorous research relevant to educational practice.
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 recipient(s) will be recognized at the SREE 2021 Conference and will receive a plaque. The recipient(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.
2021 JREE Outstanding Article Award Recipients: Mengli Song, Andrew J. Wayne, Michael S. Garet, Seth Brown & Jordan Rickles for Impact of Providing Teachers and Principals with Performance Feedback on Their Practice and Student Achievement: Evidence from a Large-Scale Randomized Experiment, Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 14:2, 353-378, DOI: 10.1080/19345747.2020.1868030
2020 JREE Outstanding Article Award Recipients: Dan Goldhaber, John M. Krieg & Roddy Theobald for Exploring the Impact of Student Teaching Apprenticeships on Student Achievement and Mentor Teachers, Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 13:2, DOI: 10.1080/19345747.2019.1698087
2019 JREE Outstanding Article Award Recipients: Sharon Wolf, J. Lawrence Aber, Jere R. Behrman & Edward Tsinigo for Experimental Impacts of the 'Quality Preschool for Ghana' Interventions on Teacher Professional Well-Being, Classroom Quality, and Children’s School Readiness, Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 12:1, DOI: 10.1080/19345747.2018.1517199
2018 JREE Outstanding Article Award Recipients: Luke Miratrix, Jane Furey, Avi Feller, Todd Grindal & Lindsay C. Page 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 JREE Outstanding Article Award Recipients: Julie A. Edmunds, Fatih Unlu, Elizabeth Glennie, Lawrence Bernstein, Lily Fesler, Jane Furey & Nina Arshavsky for Smoothing the Transition to Postsecondary Education: The Impact of the Early College Model, Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 10:2, 297-325, DOI: 10.1080/19345747.2016.1191574
Howard S. Bloom, Stephen W. Raudenbush, Michael J. Weiss & 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, Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 10:4, 817-842, DOI: 10.1080/19345747.2016.1264518
HEDGES LECTURER
The Hedges Lecture is a much-anticipated highlight of the yearly SREE conference. Offered by an individual who has made notable contributions to methods in education research, the lecture challenges the audience to think more critically, deeply, and expansively about the methods we use. The lecture bears the name of Larry Hedges to honor his work in advancing research methods in education and social science and his part in founding the Society, which supports continuous improvement in the field.
2022 Hedges Lecturer: Barbara Schneider, Michigan State University, Observing Equity and Inclusion in Effectiveness Research
2021 Hedges Lecturer: David Francis, University of Houston, Are We There Yet? Reflections on 35 Years of Statistical Journeys into the Science of Reading, Language, Learning, and Education
2020 Hedges Lecturer: Stephen Raudenbush, University of Chicago, Mobilizing Evidence to Reduce Educational Inequality: A Life-Course Perspective
2019 Hedges Lecturer: Judith Singer, Harvard University, Shaping the Arc of Educational Research
2018 Hedges Lecturer: Andrew Gelman, Columbia University, Evidence-Based Practice Is a Two-Way Street
2017 Hedges Lecturer: Esther Duflo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, From Research to Policy: The Tortuous Process of Mainstreaming an Effective Education Intervention
2016 Hedges Lecturer: Larry V. Hedges, Northwestern University, Challenges in Building Usable Knowledge in Education