Provides services and technical assistance for students so they benefit from research-based curricula taught in safe environments.

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.

Roger Levine, Ph.D.

Managing Research Scientist

Dr. Roger Levine has been actively involved with social science data collection and analysis for over 30 years. He established the American Institutes for Research’s Cognitive Survey Laboratory and is director of the Palo Alto Cognitive Survey/Usability Laboratory. In addition to pilot testing survey items, this facility has been used to investigate the questionnaire response process in Spanish language speakers, fourth and eighth grade students, teachers, school administrators, and members of the general population and to inform and validate self-administered data collection instruments, Web-based surveys, and telephone interviews. This facility has also been used for usability studies of Web sites, medical equipment, electronic devices, and documents and reports.

Dr. Levine is AIR's Task Leader for Instrument Development for the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality (AHRQ) CAHPS II Project. In this role, he played a key role in the development and cognitive testing of surveys for ambulatory care patients, health plan members, recipients of in-center hemodialysis, nursing home residents, hospital patients, and people with mobility impairments. He has conducted a cognitive interviewing project for Kaiser Permanente, investigating anomalous responses to health survey items and testing the efficacy of electronic patient pre-visit questionnaires. Dr. Levine designed a longitudinal, panel study of Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs) for the National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians. He is also responsible for developing and revising the study’s sampling plan, calculating survey weights, conducting analyses, maintaining the data file, and dealing with data usage requests. Over a dozen papers and presentations have resulted from this project.

Dr. Levine has also been involved with diversity research for several decades. He is directing a project in which AIR is providing technical evaluation assistance for the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Directorate for Opportunities for Enhancing Diversity in the Geosciences (OEDG) Program. This program is designed to increase the number of underrepresented minorities in the geosciences. He is also the principal investigator for a project to evaluate AHRQ's programs to increase diversity among its grant recipients (the Minority Research Infrastructure Program and the Building Research Infrastructure Capacity Program). He has conducted and trained staff in the conduct of critical incident studies, to identify barriers to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) career choice and development in individuals with disabilities. He also conducted a critical incident study to identify the ways in which sickle cell disease influences an individual's quality of life, as part of a study to develop a health related quality of life instrument for adults with sickle cell disease, for the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.

He is a member of the Steering Committee for a NHTSA-sponsored National Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Workforce Assessment, a member of the Technical Working Group for the U.S. Department of Education's Western Regional Educational Laboratory, and a member of an expert panel advising NSF's Advisory Committee on Environmental Research and Education.