In an effort to develop a balanced and valid system, states and districts increasingly have moved toward using multiple measures in educator evaluation. This guidance document focuses on the use of teacher peer-evaluation as an alternative measure, including background information, information on its use in teacher evaluation systems, and recommendations, ...
AIR provides extensive technical expertise in assessing learning outcomes at the national, subnational, and school levels to enhance student achievement. Additionally, AIR enhances the capacity of government counterparts through capacity-building activities in designing and implementing assessments and promotes evidence-based decision-making for reforms. ...
On September 26–28, 2017, the Southeast and Midwest Comprehensive Centers at AIR cohosted a regional institute institute that convened early education teams from various states to collaboratively engage in discussions on research-based information and explore evidence-based early childhood resources. Participants engaged in sessions led by experts in the field to ...
The National Center on Family Homelessness leads an initiative to provide technical assistance to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and communities receiving HUD funding with two partners—the Center for Social Innovation and HomeBase. The focus of this work is implementation of specific federal goals to end homelessness. ...
Creating an alternative compensation system requires a significant investment of states’ and local education agencies’ financial and human resources. This report explores the importance of program integration and financial sustainability, and provide examples of how states and LEAs are addressing sustainability challenges and concludes with recommendations to ensure that systems ...
Schools need to place a greater emphasis on social and emotional skills for students to prepare them for work and for life. In this policy snapshot, we summarize existing research about the effects of education on students’ social and emotional skills and identify important state and district policy considerations for ...
As the number of federal disaster declarations increases, so does the challenge of protecting more than 60,000 youth in residential and correctional facilities from disaster-related injury and trauma. In June 2014, AIR trained representatives from six juvenile justice systems in disaster planning on topics such as preparing to shelter in ...
Results indicating that teacher certification and subject-area expertise were associated with higher mathematics test scores will be among the findings released this week by the American Institutes for Research at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association.
On Wednesday, February 6, 2013, Kristin Carman and Jill Mathews Yegian, co-directors of AIR’s Health Policy and Research Group, participated in a briefing hosted by Health Affairs, a leading journal of health policy thought and research.
AIR experts will explore a variety of education research and finance topics during the 41st annual Association for Education Finance and Policy (AEFP) conference, taking place at the Denver Marriott City Center in Denver, CO, March 17-19.