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.

After its founding in 1946, AIR worked on assessments for personnel selection and maintained the national Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) clearinghouse on educational testing.

In the 1980s, we began work on NAEP by staffing the congressionally mandated evaluation of the Trial State Assessment. Since then, we have developed a variety of assessments for agencies at the local, state, and national levels. For several states, we have developed achievement tests in mathematics, reading, English language arts, writing, science, and social studies. We have developed high-quality and legally defensible high school exit examinations and end-of-course exams.

All of our achievement- and diagnostic-testing work is customized—responding directly to the specific needs of clients. Among the strengths we bring to our assessment efforts is the collective experience of our professional staff. Most of our principal scientists and senior analysts possess more than two decades of individual educational administration, teaching, or large-scale test development experience, and many of our project directors have managed state assessment programs.

The K–12 assessment programs we have developed for state clients (including California, Ohio, and South Carolina) have enabled those states to comply with the assessment and Adequate Yearly Progress requirements of No Child Left Behind. We work extensively with assessment, accountability, management, and curriculum staff in the states to ensure this compliance. Our large-scale assessment work is distinguished by quality, responsiveness, and technical innovation, and is interlinked with AIR’s education research, policy, and program improvement efforts. As testimony to our success, unbiased, external evaluators review AIR’s programs—with consistently favorable results.

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