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 officials.

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.

Kerstin Le Floch, Ph.D.

Senior Research Analyst

Dr. Kerstin Le Floch is a Senior Research Analyst with AIR, whose work focuses on accountability and school reform. At present, Dr. Le Floch directs the Study of States’ Implementation of Accountability and Teacher Quality under NCLB (SSI-NCLB) and is Deputy Director on the National Longitudinal Study of No Child Left Behind (NLS-NCLB). Together these studies constitute important sources of information for the Congressionally-mandated National Assessment of Title I. On these studies, Dr. Le Floch is responsible for tasks related to the study design, development of data collection instruments and analysis plans, as well as general project management, staffing, and budgeting.

At AIR, Dr. Le Floch has been involved with several projects related to school improvement and accountability, for which she played a leadership role in the development of survey instruments. Dr. Le Floch has acquired expertise in developing and piloting survey items that measure standards-based reform, accountability systems, and professional development. Recently, Dr. Le Floch was Task Leader for survey development for the evaluation of the Public Schools Accountability Act (PSAA) in California, a study which examines the effectiveness of accountability mechanisms associated with the Immediate Intervention/Underperforming Schools (II/USP) program.

Dr. Le Floch has a Ph.D. in Education Organization and Policy Studies and an M.A. in Political Science, both from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.