Hilda Borko, a professor of education at the University of Colorado at Boulder, has been named president-elect of the 20,000-member American Educational Research Association, the world's largest organization of educational researchers.
She is the fourth CU-Boulder School of Education faculty member to hold the presidency of the highly regarded organization.
Borko's one-year term as president will begin in spring 2003 following incumbent President Robert Linn, a distinguished professor in CU-Boulder's School of Education. Lorrie Shepard, dean of the School of Education, served as AERA president in 1999, and former CU-Boulder faculty member Gene Glass was president in 1975.
Borko is chair of the educational psychology program at CU-Boulder, and focuses her research on teacher cognition and how teachers learn to teach. She is currently involved in three separate research projects with faculty and graduate students from CU and other institutions.
In one project she is studying the effects of standards-based assessment on schools and classrooms, while another focuses on how teachers learn to teach secondary mathematics. In a third project, she and her colleagues are examining the way students learn and are taught algebra.
Borko joined the CU-Boulder School of Education faculty in August 1991. She received her doctorate in educational psychology from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1978.
AERA, a professional association based in Washington, D.C., includes educators, behavioral scientists, administrators, and directors of research, testing and evaluation in federal, state and local agencies. Members come from disciplines including psychology, sociology, history, education, economics, philosophy, anthropology, statistics and political science.