This paper serves as a response from the NVS Panel to the Trial Urban District Assessment (TUDA) reanalysis study conducted by Dogan (2019) that was designed to explore whether content misalignment might be a possible reason for the mismatched results for the TUDAs on the National Assessment of Education Progress ...
Jessica Heppen, a nationally recognized expert in education research, policy, and practice, is the president & CEO of AIR. Dr. Heppen been with AIR for 20 years and, in that time, has held several key roles during her tenure.
Dr. George Bohrnstedt is a senior vice president and AIR Institute Fellow and a leading expert in measurement, statistical methods, education policy, and social psychology. His early work at AIR focused on leading or co-leading large-scale evaluations including the Congressionally-mandated evaluation of Trial State NAEP, the California K-3 class size ...
AIR experts will present at several sessions during the 2020 spring conference of the Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, being held March 11-14, 2020, in Arlington, Virginia. The conference will bring together education researchers, policy leaders, and professionals from around the country and is built around the theme, Practical ...
To advance the production of high-quality information on the economic costs and benefits of implementing educational and other social programs, experts from AIR, the University of Pennsylvania, and Columbia University convened a panel of experts in designing and conducting economic evaluations of educational and social programs to develop the Standards ...
Will Tad Johnston is a senior technical assistance consultant at AIR specializing in mathematics education. He works with the AIR District and School Improvement Team as a mathematics instructional coach working with teachers, building instructional coaches, and administrators in high poverty schools with high percentages of students of color and/or ...
AIR Institute Fellows Doug Fuchs and Lynn Fuchs have been awarded the 2021 Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Prize in Education from the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education and the McGraw Family Foundation. The prize was established in 1988 to celebrate innovation in education by recognizing individuals who have ...
Douglas Fuchs is an Institute Fellow at AIR. He is also Professor of Special Education and Nicholas Hobbs Chair of Special Education and Human Development and Professor Pediatrics in the Vanderbilt University Medical School, Department of Special Education. At Vanderbilt, Fuchs has been principal investigator of 50 federally-sponsored research grants. ...
The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) benchmarks educational progress of students across the U.S. In this Q&A, Markus Broer explains how NAEP allows for apples-to-apples comparisons across states and districts, how AIR helps validate NAEP's results, and important trends in educational outcomes. ...
The Regional Educational Laboratory Midwest (REL Midwest) helps states, districts, and schools systematically use their data systems; conducts and supports high-quality research and evaluation; and assists educational practitioners and policymakers to incorporate data-based inquiry practices into their decision making. ...