AIR and Rutgers University leveraged empirical cost modeling to understand the costs of achieving desired outcomes (e.g., on-time graduation, transfer to a four-year institution) for community college students.
The Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) is a system of international assessments that focuses on 15-year-olds' capabilities in reading literacy, mathematics literacy and science literacy.
Early Colleges are designed to support traditionally underserved students through higher education, allowing students to take college courses during high school at little or no cost and provide support for their transition into college. We compared educational outcomes for Early College students with their peers who were not in the ...
This report begins by sharing data and research on the problem of minority male achievement and the narrow pipeline to STEM careers, and discusses the Model Institutions for Excellence Program and why it is ideally poised to lead the Expanding the K–16 Pool effort.
AIR supports the Postsecondary, Adult, and Career Education Division (PACE) program in measuring participation in education and training for work, and in quantifying the outcomes of postsecondary education and student indebtedness.
Dr. Gary Phillips, a vice president and chief scientist at AIR, was selected by the U.S. Department of Education to participate in a Race to the Top "input meeting" designed to assist states in developing the next generation of student assessment tests.
Improving the quality of instruction through the development of content standards is a critical step in developing effective curriculum and meaningful assessment to enhance student learning. In adult education, many programs do not use standards to guide their programs. The Adult Education Standards and Assessment Warehouse initiative was created in ...
The ACCELL approach includes methods, resources, and tools to help teachers across the subject areas scaffold core content for ELs. ACCELL was strategically developed from the ground up to align with college and career ready standards.
This report provides the technical details of an alternate assessment design that has resulted from a long-term research and development effort at AIR.
A decade ago, the U.S. Department of Education began reporting “Student Right To Know” graduation rates for America’s colleges and universities. While this federally mandated measure is flawed, it still captures the completion statistics of one of the nation’s largest groups of students. As this blog post shows, the news ...