In partnership with the Campbell Collaboration and Makerere University, AIR is conducting a scoping review to examine the evidence base and evidence gaps on women’s groups in Uganda.
For the Bay Area Youth Participatory Evaluation Project, AIR collaborated with Youth Participatory Evaluation (YPE) experts from Alliance for Girls, who guided a group of three young people affected by the justice system to support research on diversion programming. The goal was to find ways to further humanize young people's ...
The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) is the long-time barometer of the nation's academic achievement. In this video interview, Fran Stancavage, AIR managing researcher, talks about the relationship between NAEP and the Common Core State Standards and the challenges of measuring academic progress over time as instruction changes. ...
The authors of this paper provide a summary overview of what is already known and what is needed to learn about item types for future NAEP assessments.
Dr. Deborah Moroney specializes in bridging research and practice, having worked as a staff member for out-of-school programs early in her career. She’s written practitioner and organizational guides; co-authored the fourth edition of “Beyond the Bell®, A Toolkit for Creating High-Quality Afterschool and Expanded Learning Programs,” a seminal afterschool resource; ...
AIR developed a systematic, transparent, evidence-based protocol to review and translate the extant research about juvenile drug courts and related interventions into comprehensive, reasonable, actionable, understandable, and measurable guidelines.
The reading and mathematics measures of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) have been, and continue to be, reported on scales that appear to have the properties of “cross-grade” scales. The conclusion of this essay will be that evidence can and should be assembled to support, and make more ...
This report resulted from the systematic analysis undertaken by the NAEP Validity Studies Panel in 2001 to consider the domain of validity threats to NAEP and to identify the most urgent validity research priorities as that time.
The California Budget Act of 2012 included significant reforms to California’s Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program known as CalWORKs (California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids). AIR is partnering with the RAND Corporation to evaluate whether or not the reforms are achieving their objectives and if there are any ...
Years of research show that students from low-income families are more likely to forget previously learned material over the summer than students from wealthier families. Over time, these losses add up, widening the socioeconomic disparity in academic performances. Carol McElvain explains how high quality summer opportunities for low-income students can ...