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.

Learning Outcomes and Assessment

Linking learning outcomes to improving the quality of teaching and learning is an AIR priority AIR has worked for decades to develop and implement effective and methodologically appropriate student assessments. Projects address the challenge of aligning standards with curriculum; designing assessments on a sound framework of what to measure; ensuring that measures are reliable, valid and fair; and presenting results in useful and meaningful formats to intended users. Types of student-based assessments linked to learning include: curriculum mastery; system-level monitoring of educational achievement; continuous assessment and examinations.