Education - All Reports and Products
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Monday, November 21, 2011
Service: International Activities
AIR provides support to National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) staff in the International Activities Program and is committed to the goals of collecting and reporting data on education in the United States and other nations, and providing valuable comparative information about U.S. educational performance in an international context.
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Monday, November 21, 2011
Report: Highlights from PISA 2006: Performance of U.S. 15-Year-Old Students in Science and Mathematics Literacy in an International Context
This report uses data from the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), and summarizes the performance of U.S. students in the year 2006. It also compares the scores of U.S. 15-year-old students in science and mathematics literacy to the scores of their peers internationally.
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Thursday, November 17, 2011
Service: Statistical Standards Program
AIR’s support of the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Statistical Standards Program is technical, methodological, and statistical. AIR staff work to support the development of standards that ensure the quality of statistical surveys, analyses and products for NCES projects.
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Thursday, November 17, 2011
Report: NCES Handbook of Survey Methods
The publication aims to provide users of NCES data with the information necessary to evaluate the suitability of the statistics for their needs, with a focus on the methodologies for survey design, data collection, and data processing.
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Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Service: Rural Education in America and Urban Education in America
AIR’s Federal Statistics Program provides support for statistical tables on NCES’ Rural Education in America and Urban Education in America websites
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Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Service: United States Education Dashboard
The Federal Statistics Program has provided support for the United States Education Dashboard since its inception in 2011.
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Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Service: NCES Fast Facts Website
The NCES Fast Facts website originated from a list of questions frequently asked of NCES and was started as a resource for the general public for brief, yet up-to-date, education facts.
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Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Service: Statistical Abstract of the United States
AIR’s Federal Statistics Program provides support for the Statistical Abstract updates from NCES for the Census Bureau.
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Monday, November 7, 2011
Report: Condition of Education Reports
The Condition of Education is a congressionally mandated annual report that provides a definitive look at developments and trends in U.S. education.
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Thursday, October 20, 2011
Report: The Hidden Costs of Community Colleges
This report focuses on the high costs of the low retention and completion rates that are far too typical of community colleges.
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Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Report: The Impact of Indiana’s System of Benchmark Assessments on Mathematics Achievement
The authors of this report use high quality data from a large-scale school-level cluster randomized experiment to examine the effects of mClass and Acuity benchmark assessments on mathematics achievement in 59 schools in the State of Indiana.
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Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Presentation: SREE Fall 2011 Presentation: Impact of Indiana’s Diagnostic Assessment Tools on Mathematics Achievement
This PowerPoint presentation, prepared for the Fall 2011 Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness conference, accompanies the research paper, The Impact of Indiana’s System of Benchmark Assessments on Mathematics Achievement. The objectives of the study described include the following.
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Saturday, October 1, 2011
Report: Making the Move: Transition Strategies at California Schools with High Graduation Rates
AIR, as a partner in the California Comprehensive Center at WestEd, worked with the K-12 Innovation and Improvement Office (formerly the Middle Grades Improvement Office) at the California Department of Education to conduct a study on student transitions from the middle grades to high school.
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Thursday, September 1, 2011
Report: Wisconsin Culturally Responsive Education for All (CREATE) Initiative - Training and Enhancement Initiative
The Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction contracted with AIR to provide a comprehensive evaluation of its Culturally Responsive Education for All: Training and Enhancement (CREATE) initiative during its first three years of implementation. AIR employed a qualitative case study design to assess program implementation and to determine the effect participation in the CREATE initiative had on districts’ capacities to provide culturally responsive education and to implement policies and practices designed to close achievement gaps and reduce disproportionality in special education.
