Astronomy Education Review (AER) is a web-based journal and magazine for everyone who works in astronomy and space science education. Published by the American Astronomical Society, the journal welcomes research papers, short articles on innovative work, comparative reviews of educational resources, op-ed pieces, letters to the editor, news items, and announcements of opportunities related to education and outreach. All papers and articles are refereed. See Submissions above for guidelines. If you still have questions, click on Contact

What's New at AER?

The International Year of Astronomy [IYA] was a remarkable event. AER wants to provide a venue for those who undertook IYA-related education projects in 2009 and wish to share their research results with the broader community. To that end, the editors welcome and encourage submissions to AER summarizing lessons learned from the IYA.

The ten most recent additions to AER:

• Survey of the Goals and Beliefs of Planetarium Professionals Regarding Program Design
  By Kim J. Small and Julia D. Plumier
• Call for Co-Operation in the Development of a Stack Exchange Site on Science Teacher Professional Development in Astronomy
  By David McKinnon and Michael Fitzgerald
• Catching Cosmic Rays with a DSLR
  By Kendra Sibbernsen
• Covering the Standards: Astronomy Teachers' Preparation and Beliefs
  By Julia D. Plummer and Valerie M. Zahm
• Primary School Students' Ideas Concerning the Apparent Movement of the Moon
  By John Starakis and Krystallia Halkia
• Student Ideas about Kepler's Laws and Planetary Orbital Motions
  By Ka Chun Yu, Kamran Sahami, and Grant Denn
• Good Reading from Other Sources on Astronomy Education and Outreach (Published in 2009)
  By Andrew Fraknoi
• Book Review---A Question and Answer Guide to Astronomyby Pierre-Yves Bely, Carol Christian, and Jean-Rene Roy
  By Sidney Wolff, Reviewer
• A National Study Assessing the Teaching and Learning of Introductory Astronomy Part II: The Connection between Student Demographics and Learning
  By Alexander L. Rudolph, Edward E. Prather, Gina Brissenden, David Consiglio, and Vicente Gonzaga
• The Pulsar Search Collaboratory
  By R. Rosen, S. Heatherly, M. A. McLaughlin, R. Lynch, V. I. Kondratiev, J. R. Boyles, M. Wilson, D. R. Lorimer, and S. Ransom

See the Latest Issue for the full table of contents.