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.

Tracy Costigan, Ph.D.

Senior Research Scientist

Tracy Costigan, a Senior Research Scientist at AIR, applies her expertise in quantitative analysis, statistical methodology, survey design, and program evaluation to a variety of projects. Her research efforts include measurement and test development, education/instructional processes, child mental health, and modeling and prediction of human behavior in high-risk scenarios. She is currently Project Director of Teacher Knowledge of Instructional Processes, a project with the National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES) that is working to design an instrument to measure teacher knowledge of a new framework for instructional processes, student content engagement (SCE). Dr. Costigan is also Project Director of the Federal Interagency Coordinating Council (FICC) Support Task Order, which provides general support to the FICC, an advising body that serves to facilitate coordination of federal resources to ensure that young children with, or at risk for, disabilities and their families get needed services.

Dr. Costigan received her Ph.D. and M.A. from the Medical College of Pennsylvania/Hahnemann University in Clinical Psychology and her B.S. from Tufts University in Biology and Psychology.