For the first time in Oregon history, blind students now have access to the state's online adaptive test system. The new OAKS Online Braille Interface, designed by Oregon's test vendor and partner American Institutes for Research, allows Oregon's blind students to access the same online test and the same ...
This series of modules Using CBM in a Response to Intervention Framework, provides information about how student progress monitoring, specifically Curriculum Based Measurement (CBM), can be used to determine a student’s response to an intervention.
Martin Hooper is a principal researcher at AIR. Since joining AIR in October 2018, Dr. Hooper has been involved in researching NAEP (National Assessment of Educational Progress) and international large-scale assessment methodologies with a special focus on context questionnaires and trend analysis. Dr. Hooper also supports the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) in the management of ...
Education and health policy experts from the American Institutes for Research (AIR) are available to the media to discuss the implications of President Barack Obama’s first State of the Union address to the nation on Wednesday, January 27, 2010. AIR, a nonpartisan not-for-profit behavior and social science research organization based ...
Special education experts from the American Institutes for Research (AIR) will participate in a variety of presentations, panel discussions and poster sessions at the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) Convention and Expo occurring March 1-4, 2023, in Louisville, Kentucky.
The recent release of the 2015 NAEP results by the U.S. Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics have been labeled “historic” by some because math scores at both Grades 4 and 8 and reading at Grade 8 have all declined, the first decline since NAEP's framework was put ...
The Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) is a system of international assessments that focuses on 15-year-olds' capabilities in reading literacy, mathematics literacy and science literacy.
The Special Olympics Unified Champion Schools model is a whole-school intervention that aims to promote social inclusion of students with intellectual disabilities in their schools through inclusive activities that occur within the normative contexts of the school. Key inclusive strategies include unified sports, inclusive youth leadership, and whole-school awareness and ...