Factors influencing graduate student membership in the Association of Educational Communication and Technology (AECT)

The purpose of this study is to investigate factors influencing membership in the Association of Educational Communication & Technology (AECT). This study seeks to understand what factors influence graduate students' decisions of whether or not to maintain membership in AECT. Participants include current and former members of AECT drawn from the organization's membership database. Invitations to participate were be sent via email. The instruments used for this study include surveys created by both the leadership of AECT and the investigator in order to meet the purposes of this study. Additionally, semi-structured interviews were conducted via phone with a subset of participants from each of the three subgroups who volunteered to provide further information. Data analysis used to investigate research questions and hypotheses included descriptive statistics and a qualitative analysis focusing on identifying themes from semi-structured interviews.