Provides services and technical assistance for students so they benefit from research-based curricula taught in safe environments.

Produces and disseminates information to provide motivation and tools to enable individuals to make informed decisions about health issues.

Develops and implements education testing programs that benefit students, parents and public officals.

Works with the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), the government's primary source for collecting and analyzing data about public education.

Helps to provide all children with access to a quality education, and empowers people, organizations, and communities to bring about social change.

Is committed to helping clients improve the effectiveness of their workforce through a wide range of management, organizational, and business improvement efforts.

Produces, maintains and disseminates systematic reviews of the effects of social and behavioral interventions.

The Computer and Statistical Sciences practice supports the Assessment program through software design and development and applied statistics specific to educational assessment. It consists of a staff of over twenty computer scientists, programmers, and statisticians. The CSS practice area has developed a sophisticated Item Tracking System that is used by all assessment projects to control and monitor the progress of each test item through its life cycle. This helps to assure quality items for assessment projects. The Lighthouse and Performance Beacon products provide online aggregate reports from statistical data. These software products, developed entirely by AIR, give clients the ability to dynamically construct completely customizable reports over the Web in real time.

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