As prospective college students and their parents pore over the Department of Education’s College Navigator and College Scorecard, Andrew Gillen suggests in this blog that they pay close attention to the financial implications of their choice. Ensuring that college is affordable should be high on the list of policy priorities, ...
Under a grant funded by Walmart, AIR conducted a scan of free college tuition program websites in spring 2021. This scan culminated in a report, a downloadable database of programs, a webinar, and this interactive map that explores how free college tuition programs for adults might better leverage employers in ...
Experts with AIR will present a variety of education research and finance sessions during the 46th annual Association for Education Finance and Policy (AEFP) conference, taking place virtually March 17-20, 2021. This year’s conference theme is “Promoting Equity and Opportunity Through Education Policy Research,” and is designed to facilitate collaborations ...
Getting Started with Evaluation is the first in a four-part series designed to help institutions use data to demonstrate the value of competency-based education (CBE) programs for their students and continuously improve program quality.
In the hour-long webinar based on these slides, participants learned how to build powerful and compelling research ...
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 ...
Dr. Mark Schneider, a vice president with the American Institutes for Research (AIR) and an authority on higher education issues and their economic implications, will participate in the 2011 National Forum on Education Policy hosted by the Education Commission of the States in Denver, Colo., on July 6-8, 2011. ...
The study uses nationally representative data to investigate how high school STEM motivation, STEM course taking, STEM achievement and social networks are associated with the decision of students who go on to enroll in 4-year colleges to choose a STEM major or not. The study findings highlight the important role ...
Although English language learners (ELLs) have an increasing presence in postsecondary education, their unique needs are often unmet by institutions of higher education. Technology-mediated English language instruction may be a solution to the pressing challenges that postsecondary institutions face in providing personalized instruction to ELLs, because it allows instruction to ...
As higher education policymakers and advocates consider new federal measures of student persistence and completion, how do these measures “stack up” when data from actual institutions—particularly those that serve “post-traditional” students—are used to calculate them? This technical report uses data from 11 institutions to demonstrate the importance of including all ...
Jonathan A. Simonetta is Vice President, International Development at AIR. As Vice President, he mentors researchers, oversees projects, monitors overall project performance, and leads business development for our International Development Division.