Experts with AIR will discuss big data and survey methods at the American Statistical Association’s 2015 Joint Statistical Meeting to be held August 8–13 in Seattle, Wash. The conference is the largest annual gathering of statisticians in North America and will be attended by more than 6,000 participants. ...
AIR provided research support to the Foundation for Excellence in Education to assist in its selection of Florida teachers whose students made the most progress in reading and/or math from one year to the next for three consecutive years.
Gwendolyn Willis-Darpoh, a senior researcher at the American Institutes for Research (AIR), has been elected to the National Board of Directors of the Fulbright Association, which promotes international education and cultural exchange.
Interventions and protections for employees with cancer have increased as their numbers in the workforce have grown. Kathleen Murphy talks about how employees with cancer can access different interventions and protections, such as those in the Americans with Disabilities Act.
In 1983, A Nation at Risk laid bare the state of American education and exposed what that meant for individuals and the country. Here, seven education experts from AIR weigh in on whether the report made a difference and where education is today.
Experts from AIR played a key role in preparing a new report released June 23, 2011, by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). "Achievement Gaps: How Hispanic and White Students in Public Schools Perform in Mathematics and Reading on the National Assessment of Educational Progress" provides detailed information on ...
The Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (Smarter Balanced) today announced that the American Institutes for Research (AIR) has been chosen to partner with the consortium to deliver their initial tests to millions of students in 2013 and 2014. AIR will make available an open-source testing platform to enable all states and ...
College students now expect tuition bills 4 to 6 percent higher than they paid the year before. That often means students in four-year public universities pay several hundred dollars more annually while students at private universities shell out upwards of a thousand dollars more each year. What is all this ...
AIR will release a new report on international benchmarking for 4th and 8th grade math students on June 16, 2009, which will be followed by a panel discussion that includes Massachusetts Commissioner of Education Mitch Chester and senior officials of the National Governors' Association (NGA) and the National Association of ...
Allison Dymnicki, a researcher at AIR, was recently awarded the American Education Research Association’s (AERA) Division H Research, Assessment, and Evaluation 2011 Outstanding Publication Dissertation Award first prize.