Researchers from the American Institutes for Research will give presentations on a broad range of education research topics during the Society for Research on Education Effectiveness conference March 4-7, 2015 in Washington, D.C. The conference theme, Learning Curves: Creating and Sustaining Gains from Early Childhood through Adulthood, explores the role ...
Since 2010, the Zambian government has been providing 60 kwacha a month ($12 U.S.) to district households with at least one child under the age of five. UNICEF Zambia hired AIR to design and conduct the study of the program’s effectiveness, with funding provided by UNICEF, Irish Aid and Britain’s ...
The armed conflict in Côte d'Ivoire had serious consequences on the country’s education sector. The destruction of thousands of school infrastructure and classroom materials considerably compromised access to quality education. As part of peace-building efforts, AIR implemented a program with the goal of increasing equitable access to education, especially for ...
Despite extensive research on the effectiveness of cash transfer programs, little evidence exists on the extent and ways poor people with intersectional identities have been excluded from these programs and what potential strategies would work to reduce their exclusion. The AIR Equity Initiative awarded funding to the Equity and Cash ...
When teachers learn, students learn. For decades, AIR has conducted studies of teacher professional learning and helped practitioners use evidence to develop, implement, test, and scale professional learning programs.
Andrew Wayne is a managing researcher at AIR. He develops, supervises, and leads work designed to improve K-12 education.
Dr. Wayne’s main line of work focuses on K-12 teacher professional learning. Over the last two decades, he conducted groundbreaking studies of professional learning programs and their impact on teacher and student ...