American Educational Research Association

The American Educational Research Association ( AERA ), headquartered in Washington, DC is the trade association founded in 1916, the educational sciences in America. It represents the equivalent of the German DGfE

The AREA has over 26,000 active members in research and teaching. Your goal is to improve educational processes, by promoting scientific research, their teaching, evaluation and utilization for practice.

The AREA is the editor of the academic journal American Educational Research Journal.