Through our Partnerships for Progress initiative, AIR collaborates with community-based nonprofits to make it possible for everyone to contribute to building a better, more equitable world—starting in their own neighborhoods.
A recent challenge to maintaining NAEP trends has arisen with the exploration of new testing methods and question types that reflect the growing use of technology in education. The purpose of this white paper is to provide a framework for considering device and interface features that may affect student performance ...
This paper serves as a response from the NVS Panel to the Trial Urban District Assessment (TUDA) reanalysis study conducted by Dogan (2019) that was designed to explore whether content misalignment might be a possible reason for the mismatched results for the TUDAs on the National Assessment of Education Progress ...
This paper provides the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), National Assessment Governing Board (NAGB), and the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) community with information that may help maintain the validity and utility of the NAEP assessments for civics and U.S. history as revisions are planned to the NAEP ...
This study addresses the threat to the validity of scores arising from differential and changing participation rates of schools and students in NAEP testing.
This report outlines a number of critical issues that should be addressed in order to allow states to explore and understand relationships between the performance of English language learning students on NAEP and on state assessments in this policy context.
This 2007 report is the result of a request by the National Center for Education Statistics to the NVS panel to undertake a validity study of the current National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) mathematics assessment.
To support elementary teachers in developing the content and pedagogical knowledge they need to earn the computer science micro-credentials, AIR developed, piloted, and implemented a series of self-paced courses in the Canvas platform.
This is the second of two conversations by current and former colleagues Robert “Bob” Kim and Terris Ross. Kim, an AIR Institute Fellow, served as deputy assistant secretary in the Office for Civil Rights of the U.S. Department of Education during the Obama administration. Their first conversation focused on policy ...
The purpose of this study on early grade reading and English language learning in primary education in Ethiopia was to explore current policies and practice and make evidence-based recommendations to improve early grade reading and English language learning in Ethiopia.