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.

Our staff assists NCES in planning, designing, implementing, analyzing, reviewing and disseminating an array of educational information products.

Our areas of work include:

• Survey Design and Management. We assist NCES with various operational and technical aspects of survey research, including overall design, instrument development, and data collection monitoring. We design and implement data documentation and quality control measures. We write reports analyzing NCES data collection and survey results.
• Analysis. Our experts analyze NCES and other education data and information to monitor and report on continuing and emerging education-policy priorities, trends, and phenomena. Results are reported in NCES reports and web products. In addition, we work to develop new ways to define and measure concepts in education statistics.
• Assessment. We support the design, development, analysis, reporting, and dissemination of findings from large-scale educational assessment surveys, including the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), the National Assessment of Adult Literacy, and other national and international surveys that include educational assessment components.
• Outreach, Input, and Dissemination. Our experts facilitate a wide range of NCES efforts that reach out to the broad community of education practitioners, managers, researchers, and the public to collect input and feedback about its work and also to communicate its findings through reports, presentations, and Web sites.
• Statistics and Technical Review. We are working to identify and use new statistical and methodological techniques, which would facilitate the use of NCES data and the production of reliable and valid estimates, findings, and conclusions.  We also assist with technical review of NCES reports for statistical quality and accuracy, and adherence to NCES statistical standards.