Research Note: Changes in Institutional Participation at AERA Annual Meetings
Abstract
Research Note Changes in Institutional Participation at AERA Annual Meetings TERRY M. WILDMAN HAROLD J. FLETCHER KRISTEN PRENTISS ach year several thousand individuals come together at the AERA annual meeting, representing universities, schools, government agencies, private corporations, and a great variety of other organizations not easily categorized. The record of their current work in education and educational research is contained in the convention program, and each year the program serves as one important way of defining participation in the profession. Patterns of participation, however, are understandably lost within the immense scope and complexity of recent meeting programs. This report provides an analysis showing trends in institutional participation for recent AERA meetings in San Francisco (1986) and Washington, DC (1987). Based on an earlier report of the 1974 Chicago meeting (see Fletcher, Beagles, Dodd, & Wildman, 1974) the present analysis includes information about the contribution of different types of institutions, their participation across AERA divisions, and a rank ordering of the 40 most frequently cited institutions. When combined with the E 1974 data, the present analysis reveals 5 changes in institutional participation i that have occurred over the past 12 orr 13 years. Procedurally, each citation in each i