Brandy Farrar uses mixed methods to identify evidence-based best practices for health care policies and services. As a trained sociologist, she is particularly interested in the intersection between individual-level social psychology and system-level structures and processes.
At least half of states administer or are developing kindergarten entry assessments. In fall 2017 the Illinois State Board of Education began requiring teachers to report data on every child’s skills at kindergarten entry using the Kindergarten Individual Development Survey.
Providing educators with additional feedback on their performance had a positive effect on student achievement in mathematics, but no statistically significant effect on reading/English language arts, finds a new study report examining the effects and implementation of a two-year intervention led by AIR on behalf of the U.S. Department of ...
The National Adequate Yearly Progress and Identification (NAYPI) database was created by AIR to facilitate analyses for two studies funded by the U.S. Department of Education's Policy and Program Studies Service: the State Study of the Implementation of Accountability and Teacher Quality Under No Child Left Behind (SSI-NCLB) and the ...
Although women’s employment possibilities have improved with the rise of globalization, women in low- and middle-income countries often perform jobs that have low skill requirements and frequently choose occupations that are highly feminized, tend to be less socially valued, and pay lower wages. This systematic review will be the first ...
The development of ASCQ-Me measures used a wide range of qualitative and quantitative research methods. View the user's manual and learn about computer adaptive versions and translations.
Education leaders have expressed concern about educators’ moving to different schools—within the same state or in another state—because these moves create costs for the home district and have potential impacts on the equitable distribution of effective educators among schools. This study's findings provide initial insights into the intrastate and interstate ...
Jane Hannaway, a vice president at the American Institutes for Research (AIR) and director of the National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER), participated in a panel discussion on trends in student achievement that began an event announcing the winner of the 2011 Broad Prize for ...
Through our Meet the Expert feature, get to know some of AIR’s key staff, learning what drives and keeps them going, the work they find most meaningful, and even a little bit about how they spend their personal time.
AIR is a sponsor of the revealing film, American Teacher, which features AIR teacher effectiveness expert Dr. Sabrina Laine and footage from our National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality.