The Plan, Do, Study, Act Process is central to the improvement of instructional routines. Watch one of the Better Math Teaching Network members in real time and in a real classroom setting introduce the Plan, Do, Study, Act, or PDSA, process.
Teachers' use of education technology in their classrooms and schools report examines the availability of this technology in their classrooms and schools, their training and preparation for using it, and the barriers to technology use they encounter.
Jing Dong is a senior health economist in the Health Division at AIR. She has over 15 years of experience studying health- and health system-related issues and has extensive training in using quasi-experimental designs (such as instrumental variable, difference in differences, and propensity score methods) to answer causal questions relevant ...
The AIR National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) research team has conducted four studies focused on relating student motivational variables to NAEP achievement in reading, mathematics, and science across different grade levels in three of the studies and exploring its relationship to students’ choice of a science, technology, engineering, and ...
Michaela Gulemetova is a senior economist at AIR who specializes in methods for program evaluation in education research. With over 15 years of professional experience, Dr. Gulemetova possesses a wealth of expertise and deep knowledge of education evaluation studies. She has often served as principal investigator and senior technical lead ...
More than 70 members of the American Institutes for Research will be participating in this year's American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting, discussing a wide range of topics, including the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), school bullying and high school reform. The AERA conference will be held on ...
Alex Bishop is a senior researcher at AIR and project director for Higher Ground’s Restart SMART Initiative Evaluation. In this role, she manages the assessment of Higher Ground’s data collection and reporting infrastructure and processes and the implementation evaluation of their community school’s model. She also serves as the qualitative ...
In this brief, we discuss the introduction of interchangeable biosimilars, a generic form of biologics, as well as efforts to encourage their use, particularly in the Medicare program.
Linda Lin is a researcher at AIR with experience in designing and conducting education research and evaluation studies. Dr. Lin specializes in experimental and quasi-experimental study design and quantitative methodology, with a particular interest in casual inference methods, multilevel modeling and data mining. She also has extensive experience in developing ...
Michael S. Garet is a vice president and institute fellow at AIR. His areas of specialization include teacher development and methodological issues in evaluating the impacts of educational interventions. He is currently co-leading two projects for the Institute of Education Sciences: a study of the impact of multi-tiered systems of ...