This report outlines a number of critical issues that should be addressed in order to allow states to explore and understand relationships between the performance of English language learning students on NAEP and on state assessments in this policy context.
A federal higher education grant program designed to improve postsecondary educational opportunities, particularly for underserved populations, is meeting and sometimes exceeding its goals, according to a study of the program completed by the American Institutes for Research (AIR) for the U.S. Department of Education. ...
The state of Michigan has 10 Great Start to Quality Resource Centers (RCs) across 11 regions. AIR designed and completed a cost study with the Michigan Department of Education to estimate the overall costs for each of its 10 RCs to perform the activities and goals outlined in each RC's ...
The National Assessment of Educational Progress is the largest nationally representative and continuing assessment of what America's students know and can do in various subject areas. This paper describes a feasibility study to determine whether measurement at the lower end of the student distribution, including measurement ...
As NAEP transitions from a paper-based to a digitally based assessment, the question arises: Are all children are ready for the transition—and would any of them would be disadvantaged by it? To investigate these issues, AIR developed a new set of survey items related to digital technology for the 2015 ...
This study addresses the threat to the validity of scores arising from differential and changing participation rates of schools and students in NAEP testing.
The AIR study for the first time uses the standards set by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) - known as the nation's "report card" - to measure how U.S. students compare in mathematics and science with students in foreign countries, based on data in the Third International Mathematics ...
AIR has played a critical role in investigating the use of evidence-based practices in home visiting, early language outcomes, home visiting during the COVID-19 pandemic, and evaluations of the Welcome Baby program sponsored by First 5 LA.
The purpose of this study is to estimate the extent to which state assessment scores can be used to improve the adjustments of NAEP data to remove the biases due to absences.