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.

Kwang Suk Yoon, Ph.D.

Senior Research Scientist

Kwang Suk Yoon, Ph.D., is a Senior Research Scientist with AIR, where his work focuses on project management, research design, statistical data analysis, supervision of data collection, and writing proposals and reports. He currently serves as Project Director for the Longitudinal Design to Measure Effects of MSP Professional Development in Improving Quality of Instruction in Mathematics and Science Education and Examining Social Trust from a Racial Perspective: A Product of Individual Race or Community Diversity? projects.

Dr. Suk Yoon has published and presented extensively on issues pertaining to professional and child development, as well as the role of instructional practices in determining social competence and competence beliefs, early school adjustment, motivation, and goal orientation. Before coming to AIR, he participated in the Ontogeny of Self and Task Concepts and Activity Choice study and the Achievement Goals and Adjustment at Early Adolescence Study, both longitudinal studies, at the University of Michigan. He earned his M.A. in Adult Education from the University of Connecticut and his Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from the University of Michigan.