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Education Assessment

AIR offers a full range of assessment services, collaborating with our state and district clients, to develop and deploy customized, criterion-referenced assessment programs to help students learn, teachers teach, and parents know what is happening at school. More information about the full range of assessment activities is provided on the Education Assessment Web page.

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Recent Reports

• Psychometric Advances in Alternate Assessment

  This report provides the technical details of an alternate assessment design that has resulted from a long-term research and development effort at AIR.

• Measures and Methods for the National Reporting System for Adult Education

  For more than 15 years, AIR has led the National Reporting System for Adult Education for the Office of Vocational and Adult Education (OVAE). AIR developed the adult education accountability system—the NRS—and from its inception developed a parallel line of technical assistance activities to ensure its effective implementation and use.

• Achievement Gaps: How Black and White Students in Public Schools Perform in Math and Reading

  

  Detailed information on the size of the achievement gaps between Black and White students at both the national and state level and how those achievement gaps have changed over time.

Recent Projects

• Egypt’s Education Reform Program

  

  The Education Reform Program in Egypt is a USAID-funded cooperative agreement with AIR, introducing innovations in school reform across seven governorates on the Nile River: Alexandria, Cairo, Fayoum, Beni Suef, Qena, Minia, and Aswan.

• Center for Special Education Finance (CSEF)

  Since 1992, the Center for Special Education Finance (CSEF) has addressed fiscal policy issues related to the delivery and support of special education services throughout the United States.

• Special Education Expenditure Project (SEEP)

  The Special Education Expenditure Project (SEEP)—conducted by the Center for Special Education Finance (CSEF)—is the fourth project sponsored by the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) and its predecessor to examine the nation’s spending on special education and related services in the past 40 years.