Saida Mamedova is a senior psychometrician/statistician with experience in complex survey and assessment data analysis, survey questionnaire and sampling design, technical writing, and disclosure risk analysis. Since joining AIR in 2009, she has supported a number of administrative, longitudinal, and household surveys in analyst and survey design capacities. Mamedova's experience with ...
Hannah Acheson-Field is a senior researcher at AIR, where she designs, conducts, and leads mixed-methods, quasi-experimental, and experimental research and evaluations. Dr. Acheson-Field’s research focuses on evaluating programs and policies that help students transition into, succeed in, and afford college and the pathways and policies to help them succeed in ...
Anne Tillema Seguin is a senior technical assistance consultant in the Workforce Program Area at AIR. Her primary responsibilities include providing leadership for a remote, cross-functional team of 50 to implement complex solutions while managing a national project. Seguin independently establishes goals, objectives, strategies, and budget requirements for successful completion ...
A national evaluation of 10 CMS demonstration grants designed to improve the recruitment and retention of the direct service workforce (DSWs) who provide home- and community-based services to the elderly and people with disabilities found confirmation of high turnover and difficulty in hiring primarily due to low pay relative to ...
The Department of Labor (DOL) and Department of Defense (DoD) contracted with AIR to provide technical assistance to grantees during the first year implementation of the Military Spouse Career Advancement Account (CAA) demonstration.
AIR contributed to the development of National Disability Policy: A Progress Report, released on October 31, 2011 by the National Council on Disability. This annual progress report describes the current state of people with disabilities in America.
Lauren Focarazzo is vice president of business development at AIR. In this role, she works closely with program and infrastructure leadership to ensure seamless collaboration across the institution. Focarazzo oversees business development operations, market and competitive intelligence, proposal management, pricing, and pre-award functions. As the leader of the business development ...
Zach Miller is a principal TA consultant at AIR where he supports projects in the International Labor and Workforce and Workforce Policy and Programs practice areas and serves as a staff manager. He has over 15 years of experience providing TA, evaluating programs, and building organizational capacities with clients across ...
The initiatives to enhance adult learning program accountability and assessment systems of the following states are described in this paper: Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Kentucky, Oregon, Texas, Washington, West Virginia.
This brief highlights findings from the Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) in an effort to obtain a clear understanding of the ability of adults to undertake digital problem solving. This brief uses data gathered from a sample of 5,000 adults across different socio-demographic groups in the ...