AIR) experts will present at several sessions during the annual Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) conference, virtually Feb. 14–15, and in-person Feb. 18–22, at the Grand Hyatt Washington in Washington, D.C. The theme for this year’s conference is “Improving Education for a More Equitable World” and aligns with AIR’s ...
The American Institutes for Research (AIR) is one of a select number of research organizations chosen by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, a Public Health Service agency in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, to promote innovation in health care delivery in the United States. ...
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, After School Matters engaged in organization-wide planning and preparation efforts to move in-person programs online. After School Matters reenvisioned its summer 2020 program session to provide 517 remote learning programs to nearly 10,000 teens in the city of Chicago. After School Matters partnered with ...
Researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and funders are increasingly aware of the powerful potential for summertime experiences and the need to design, implement, and continuously improve summertime experiences for all.
AIR has worked with the Massachusetts Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development (EOLWD) to create an Apprenticeship Career Pathways Framework and related resources to provide important support to expand Registered Apprenticeship, pre-apprenticeship, and other work-based learning models as central strategies in the state’s education and workforce development efforts. ...
Approximately 1 in 8 U.S. adults lack basic literacy, numeracy, and digital literacy skills, and another 14 million lack a high school diploma. Most of these individuals are unable to access employment opportunities in high-wage and high-demand occupations and industry sectors. PROMISE researchers are reviewing adult education data from the ...
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.
Incarcerated and formerly incarcerated youth and young adults face unique challenges to furthering their education, acquiring skills for in-demand occupations and industries, and obtaining living-wage employment. With justice-involved individuals facing complex and persistent barriers, the PROMISE Center seeks to identify approaches with the potential to help large numbers of justice-involved ...
Because the development of skill-based coordination training is dependent on the accurate identification of crucial behaviors to be trained, and because there is a need to develop more effective methods to identify these skills, the purpose of this investigation was to identify a psychometrically sound index of team task importance ...
Despite the gaps in research, a number of knowledge-elicitation methods available from research on individual CTA seem adaptable to a team environment. Some of these have been used in the team performance arena, whereas others have not. This section suggests potential methods for the different types of team knowledge described ...