Provides research, evaluation, consulting, and technical assistance services that contribute to the lifelong process of learning and improving personal performance.

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

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Develops new and innovative ways to measure student achievement and provide customized tools to improve student learning.

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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.

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

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AIR is a national leader in identifying and evaluating education environments and systems both locally and nationally. We help policy makers and practitioners determine which policies and practices are most effective in their schools and communities.

Our work includes compiling quantitative data from different sources to create indicators that can describe and measure various aspects of education systems, including key outcomes such as student achievement. 

AIR applies rigorous standards to the review and synthesis of research to determine what approaches to education are based on high quality evidence. Through the What Works Clearinghouse and other ongoing projects, we are developing the standards and  practices needed to assess the quality of evidence in research studies in order to identify the most effective approaches to providing education.

Our work focuses on:

• Developing and applying standards of evidence to identify research in education that meets rigorous standards of quality  
• Evaluating and synthesizing available research to provide summary information to policy makers and practitioners on individual programs and practices to help guide practical decisions
• Identifying sources of data that can be used to inform decision making and creating databases that users can readily use to access these data with the assurance the data are as comprehensive and complete as possible
• Creating environmental and performance indicators from diverse sources that policymakers at all levels can use to examine their own education systems and make comparisons with other systems
• Providing various tools, including online data analysis and reporting systems, that provide users with easy-to-use means to access data and produce reports that summarize information required for decision making

People

Kwang Suk Yoon, Principal Research Scientist Maria Stephens, Senior Research Analyst Stephanie Cronen, Senior Research Analyst Rebecca Herman, Principal Research Scientist Fiona Helsel, Senior Research Analyst

Recent Projects & Clients

What Works Clearinghouse (WWC)
National Center on Student Progress Monitoring (NCSPM)

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