Jordan Rickles is a principal researcher at AIR. Dr. Rickles has fifteen years of education research and evaluation experience, including work within the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) and the University of California National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST). He specializes in research design ...
Martyna Citkowicz is a principal researcher at AIR with expertise in quantitative methodology, particularly in the areas of program evaluation and meta-analysis. Dr. Citkowicz currently serves as the Principal Investigator of two residency program evaluations funded by the Supporting Effective Educator Development (SEED) Grants Program and is leading several meta-analyses ...
A recent ACT report offers new perspectives on the achievement gap between White and Asian students and their African-American, Hispanic, and Native American peers. In this blog post, Courtney Tanenbaum discusses how to address the fact that the academic achievement gap that exists in general for ethnically diverse students is ...
Thomas Snyder is a managing director at AIR, with over 40 years of experience in working with the federal statistical system. He serves as a project advisor and reviewer for the Data Analytic and Evaluation Studies project for the Department of Education Office of the Chief Data Officer and directs ...
Lisa White is a senior researcher at AIR in the early childhood practice area. Her areas of expertise include dual language learners (DLLs), including their development and culturally and linguistically sensitive classroom instruction; executive functioning development; early science teaching and learning; measurement of child learning (including computerized assessments); teacher professional ...
The motivation for the present study was to obtain more systematic information about how decisions are made at the local school level so as to better understand the causes of the observed variation and to suggest modifications in NAEP procedures that could reduce variation.
New research is again highlighting the wide variation in states’ student performance standards and overly optimistic reports of student proficiency. Alicia Garcia argues that, going forward, states must adopt evidence-based methods of standard setting that prepare students to compete in the global marketplace. ...
Jonathan A. Simonetta is Vice President, International Development at AIR. As Vice President, he mentors researchers, oversees projects, monitors overall project performance, and leads business development for our International Development Division.
Bobbi Newman is a principal researcher and director of AIR’s practice area for standards and assessments. She has more than 15 years of experience in research and evaluation of school reform efforts. Dr. Newman has worked at every level of the education system, from the classroom to the state. As ...
Nearly 60 education experts from AIR will present current research findings during the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, being held virtually April 8-12, 2021. This year’s meeting theme is “Accepting Educational Responsibility,” and encourages attendees, as citizens and scholars, to do more with evidence to educate the ...