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

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.

AIR conducts several types of work in the area of school reform. Our work involves the full toolkit available to social scientists, from quantitative to qualitative methods and surveys, to case studies, to direct observation.

Our work includes research on core school reform issues, such as designing and testing professional development strategies through a randomized field trial and the role of systemic approaches to school reform.

AIR also conducts research on, and evaluations of, specific reform programs and strategies, such as the Network Grants Program, the National Longitudinal Study of No Child Left Behind, and the National Longitudinal Evaluation of Comprehensive School Reform. 

We apply state-of–the-art methods to the analysis of data, including data on student achievement.

Finally we provide direct technical assistance on research-driven school reform through a variety of centers