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.
In recent decades, most school systems have not prioritized civic learning in policy and practice. In this brief, we discuss the need for action in two inter-related areas to help address the current state of democracy through the promotion of K–12 civic learning: measurement and causal research.
Saida Mamedova is a senior psychometrician/statistician with experience in complex survey and assessment data analysis, survey questionnaire and sampling design, technical writing, and disclosure risk analysis. Since joining AIR in 2009, she has supported a number of administrative, longitudinal, and household surveys in analyst and survey design capacities. Mamedova's experience with ...
This study aims to understand the role that reading motivation plays in middle school reading achievement (including achievement gaps) by analyzing the 2015 grade 8 NAEP reading data. The study focuses on identifying the unique effects of student-level reading motivation and aggregated school-level mean reading motivation on reading achievement. ...
Approximately 28 percent of U.S. adults have several of the risk factors for pre-diabetes but only one out of six are aware of it, according to an AIR study that found providing services that would prevent or delay the onset of the disease could generate savings for the federal government ...
Soo Lee is a senior researcher/psychometrician at AIR. Dr. Lee works on research projects focused on analyzing data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 2010-2011 Cohort (ECLS-K: 2011), and quantitative methodology. Dr. Lee has extensive technical and practical expertise in ...