Over the last five decades, the United States has experienced the second largest wave of immigration in its history. This paper presents the first comprehensive look at the relative performance of immigrants; findings suggest early-arriving first generation immigrants perform better than do second generation immigrants, and second generation immigrants perform ...
ICAAT is an online program that seeks to improve accessible technology for people who are Deaf or have hearing loss by putting them at the center of product design and development. ICAAT provides an easy, structured way for industry and consumers to connect, work together, and inspire better technology from ...
Soft skills, the employability skills that speak to a worker's interpersonal skills and character, rose to prominence in the early 1990s as a critical component of worker productivity with the Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills (SCANS). Today, the need to coach new hires about soft skills is an accepted ...
Evaluations of implementation are essential because they help identify problems with program implementation before the program ends, so that changes in programs or interventions can still have an impact. The purpose of this guide is to provide school, district, and state personnel with an overview of the evaluation process. The ...
Researchers from AIR will address a wide range of workplace and career issues during presentations at the 26th annual conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP), which is being held April 14-16, 2011 in Chicago, IL.
As a longtime leader in quality and performance measurement, AIR supports payers, purchasers and providers in developing and deploying quality improvement tools that reward greater value and equity rather than higher volume.
Dr. Gary W. Phillips, a chief scientist at the American Institutes for Research (AIR), will participate in a forum on "Remaining Competitive in a Flat World: The Crisis in American Education and Its Implications for the Economy." The Friday, June 27, 2008 event is made possible by The Library of ...
The Early College (EC) and Innovation Career Pathways (ICP) programs in Massachusetts aim to increase opportunities for all students to be college and career ready. Each year, the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) designates high school EC and ICP programs aligned with a set of guiding principles ...
Darren Woodruff, a senior research analyst at AIR, is an invited panelist at a convening hosted by the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. and African-American Male Achievement Group, Inc. from September 29 to October 1, 2011.
Experts from the American Institutes for Research (AIR) will discuss a variety of research topics and findings during the Society for Research on Education Effectiveness (SREE) conference March 7-9, 2013, in Washington, D.C.