The Adult Education Research and Technical Assistance Center (AERTAC) at AIR conducts research and provides technical assistance to states and local programs to improve the adult education system.
The Integrated Skills Training Programme for Disadvantaged Adolescents and Youth in Lebanon (TVET) aims to provide vocational and competence-based training to both Lebanese and refugee youth, increase their access to employment and income generating activities, and enhance their personal and life skills. The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) contracted AIR ...
Apprentice retention is a dynamic process that is affected by multiple factors that change over time. This brief, Improving Apprenticeship Completion Rates, summarizes the findings of our review of studies on apprentice retention and provides recommended strategies to mitigate factors negatively affecting attrition. ...
AIR supported the Federal Aviation Administration’s Aviation Safety Action Program—the voluntary safety reporting program—for over 10 years. Our work was geared primarily toward assisting participating air carriers with evaluating the voluminous data that result from the reports that their employees submit that identify threats to safety. ...
CLEAR's mission is to make research on labor topics more accessible to practitioners, policymakers, researchers, and the public more broadly so that it can inform their decisions about labor policies and programs.
Legislation in the early 1990’s reflected renewed focus on the role adult education served in preparing adults for postsecondary education and the workforce and recognition that a professionalized system of teacher education and training was essential to achieve these ends. PRO-NET 2000 focused on the development and dissemination of competencies ...
Between 2015 to 2018, AIR evaluated the impacts of 2SCALE on farm income and food security for participating farmers. The impact evaluation studies were carried out in five countries: Kenya, Uganda, Ghana, Benin, and Mali to determine to what extent observed benefits can be attributed to program interventions. ...
Since 1989, the Government of Côte d’Ivoire has been implementing a school feeding program in partnership with the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) to improve food security and access to quality education. To continue supporting the school feeding program in seven priority regions, WFP mobilized McGovern-Dole funds from the ...
In collaboration with our partners, government leaders, and field experts, AIR has worked to strengthen the evidence base, provide evidence-backed equity resources, and support equal access to programs that can help people and communities thrive.
Computer games have the capacity to engage the player, are inexpensive, and are readily available. These three qualities suggest possible value as a training medium, even though existing aviation game software has not been designed specifically for training or crew interactions. Reactions of pilots participating in this research indicated that ...