Five Boston College Lynch School of Education faculty and researchers have been selected for the inaugural American Educational Research Association (AERA) Fellows Program. The fellows are being honored for their outstanding national and international contributions to research in education. They will be inducted at AERA's annual meeting in April 2009.
The Lynch School inductees are David Blustein, Henry Braun, Marilyn Cochran-Smith, Joan Lucariello, and George Madaus.
David Blustein, professor in the Department of Counseling, Developmental and Educational Psychology, specializes in school-to-work transition, career development, socioeconomic class issues in psychology, relational perspectives, and group psychotherapy. He earned his M.Phil. and Ph.D. in counseling psychology from Columbia University, and his M.S. in counseling and guidance from Queens College. Blustein is a fellow of Division 17 (Counseling Psychology) of the American Psychological Association (APA) and has received the Division 17 Early Career Scientist-Practitioner Award and the John Holland Award for Outstanding Achievement in Personality and Career Research. His recent book The Psychology of Working: A New Perspective for Career Development, Counseling, and Public Policy was published by Routledge. He has consulted with state and national government agencies on issues pertaining to career development education and the school-to-work transition process.
Henry Braun, Boisi Professor of Education and Public Policy in the Department of Educational Research, Measurement, and Evaluation, has an expertise in testing and education policy, large-scale assessment surveys, achievement gaps, value-added modeling, standard setting, and higher education outcomes. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. in mathematical statistics from Stanford University. Braun has been an elected fellow of the American Statistical Association since 1991. He is a co-recipient of the 1986 Palmer O. Johnson Award of the American Educational Research Association and a co-recipient of the National Council for Measurement in Education's 1999 Award for Outstanding Technical Contribution to the Field of Educational Measurement. He has been invited to give keynote presentations at many conferences both in the United States and abroad and has served on a number of international advisory boards.
Marilyn Cochran-Smith is the John E. Cawthorne Millennium Professor of Teacher Education for Urban Schools and director of the doctoral program in curriculum and instruction. She specializes in teacher education research, policy, and practice; practitioner inquiry and teacher learning across the professional lifespan; and teacher education and issues of equity, diversity, and social justice. She earned her Ph.D. in language and education from the University of Pennsylvania. Cochran-Smith won the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education 2005 Best Publication Award and AERA's 2006 Research to Practice award. Her book, Inquiry as Stance: Practitioner Research in the Next Generation (with Susan Lytle), will be published in the spring of 2009 by Teachers College Press.
Joan Lucariello, professor in the Department of Counseling, Developmental and Educational Psychology, has an expertise in cognitive development and learning in relation to education and sociocultural context. She earned her Ph.D. in developmental psychology from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is a fellow of the APA and of the Association for Psychological Science. She has twice been nationally elected to the Executive Committee of APA's Division of Developmental Psychology, with her new term beginning in January 2009. She is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology and the Editorial Consulting Board of Child Development. Recent publications include a chapter based on her contribution to a Spencer Foundation Conference on "Developmental Science Goes to School" and articles on children's strengths in social cognition.
George Madaus is the Boisi professor emeritus and research professor at the Center for the Study of Testing, Evaluation, and Educational Policy (CSTEEP) at Boston College. He has been a visiting professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and St. Patrick's College, Dublin, a fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences, and is a member of the National Academy of Education. Madaus earned his Ed.D. from Boston College. He was honored by AERA and ACT in 2003 with the E.F. Lindquist Award for his contributions to the field of educational measurement. He is the former director of CSTEEP and the former executive director of the National Commission on Testing and Public Policy. He has been vice president of AERA Division D, and past president of the National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME). He served on the 1974 and 1985 Joint AERA, APA, and NCME Test Standards Committee, and on the 1981 Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation. He was co-chair of the APA, AERA, and NCME Joint Committee on Testing Practices, and served on the subcommittee that drafted the Code of Fair Testing Practices in Education.
AERA is an international professional organization founded in 1916 to advance educational research. The organization encourages scholarly inquiry related to education and evaluation and promotes the dissemination and practical application of research results. Its more than 26,000 members are educators, administrators, research directors, counselors, evaluators, graduate students, behavioral scientists, and persons working with testing or evaluation in federal, state, and local agencies.