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.

Andrea Berger

Senior Research Analyst

Andrea Berger, Ph.D., a Senior Research Analyst at AIR, focuses her research in the areas of secondary and postsecondary education. Although she primarily utilizes quantitative methodologies, she is also adept at qualitative approaches. Since coming to AIR, Dr. Berger has overseen several projects. Currently, she is project director of the Evaluation of the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education, being conducted for the Policy and Program Studies Service. She is also co-director of a national evaluation of early college high schools for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. For several years, she has been the deputy director of a national assessment of college student literacy using NCES’ NAAL assessment materials (funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts). As part of these projects she has authored several reports. Dr. Berger recently co-authored a report on state funded program that link professional work to financial aid. She was the primary author of two NCES reports based on the 1999 National Study of Postsecondary Faculty (NSOPF: 99). Dr. Berger received a Ph.D. in Social and Personality Psychology with a concentration in quantitative data analysis from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.