Individuals must be AEFA members to apply for and receive the doctoral scholar awards.
Any individual can receive only one award in each category.
Further, if there are multiple investigators on a project, all must be eligible for one or the other award, and the award category must be that for the most senior investigator. In these cases, a single award will be made in the name of all investigators. While applicants are not required to use NCES data, preference is given to proposals that incorporate NCES databases in the research. Applications for the 2001 New Scholars Program must be received by November 30, 2000. Successful applicants enter into a contract with NCES to complete the proposed work and present a paper at the subsequent AEFA conference.