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.

Christine Paulsen, Ph.D.

Principal Research Scientist

Christine Andrews Paulsen, Ph.D., is a Principal Research Scientist at AIR. She holds a Ph.D. in education research, evaluation and measurement from the University of Pennsylvania, an M.A. in applied social psychology from George Washington University, and a B.A. in psychology from Clark University. Dr. Paulsen’s research interests include evaluating the effectiveness of educational media and health education programs. She is especially interested in using cross-disciplinary research methods and in efforts that focus on reaching typically underserved populations, including individuals with low health literacy. Her methodological areas of expertise include: program evaluation, cognitive lab research, measurement, survey research and development, assessment validation and development, and usability testing.

At AIR, she directs qualitative and quantitative evaluation research. Her health-related research has evolved into studying how to better design information and health information technology so that patients and healthcare consumers may make informed medical decisions. Her contributions include directing an evaluation of several National Library of Medicine web sites as well as studying the impact of an interactive software application designed to provide patients, including those with low health literacy, with important drug information. In addition, she served as an expert reviewer of an online system designed to help patients manage their diabetes as well as a survey designed to capture health information from breast cancer patients. In addition, she recently studied the effectiveness of medical instructions that accompany a heart defibrillator for at-home use. Dr. Paulsen also serves as a member of the Health Advisory Board for the New England Business and Technology Association.