Two reports released today provide new evidence on the educational and labor market outcomes for veterans who did and did not use their education benefits under the Post-9/11 GI Bill (PGIB) and those who used the benefits to attend different types of colleges, including public, nonprofit, and for-profit institutions. ...
Over the years, the FAA has partnered with industry to develop programs for reporting, classifying, and analyzing safety-related data, but none has been able to integrate data from multiple sources. We are developing a generalized Human Factors taxonomy for classifying de-identified Aviation Safety Action Program (ASAP) incident reports, Advanced Qualification ...
President Obama announced in August that the Department of Education would be creating the Postsecondary Institution Rating System (PIRS), a new rating system for colleges. The Department of Education issued a request for ideas on how to design and implement the PIRS. This series of blogs posts is adapted from ...
AIR researchers' presentations will focus on job analysis, applying science in the workplace, perceptions of online social networking systems, applying industrial and organizational psychology principles to the healthcare industry, perspectives on high risk jobs, and employee retention strategies.
Tennessee has a reputation for being a leader in reform efforts to improve education at both the K–12 and postsecondary levels. College Measures’ new EduTrendsTN website, developed in partnership with the state, supports initiatives to increase the number of college graduates in Tennessee by providing prospective students and their families ...
Little is known about the most effective and accessible ways to engage people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) in remote, virtual research. The purpose of this work is to conduct research toward the development of rigorous research methods and approaches that can be used in virtual environments to enable ...
In this blog post, Mark Schneider discusses the disconnect between what students and faculty expect from a college education, and how to reconcile those differences.
The Supreme Court recently held that UT Austin’s race-conscious admissions plan is lawful under the Equal Protection Clause. In this blog post, Ben Backes discusses what this does (and does not) mean.
The Plan, Do, Study, Act Process is central to the improvement of instructional routines. Watch one of the Better Math Teaching Network members in real time and in a real classroom setting introduce the Plan, Do, Study, Act, or PDSA, process.
The Network of Consumer Hearing Assistive Technology Trainers (N-CHATT) is a partnership between AIR, Gallaudet University, and the Hearing Loss Association of America (HLAA). N-CHATT trains people affected by hearing loss to support and empower individuals in their communities to find, evaluate, use, and advocate for hearing assistive technology. ...