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 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.

Program Assessment & Evaluation

AIR provides clients with assistance on a range of program assessment and evaluation tasks, including: developing evaluation plans; training; technical assistance; formative research; survey design and analysis; and conducting process and outcome evaluations. AIR's assessments and evaluations for NIH (NHLBI, NCI), the National Eye Health Education Partnership (NEHEP), State governments and others clients addressed programs related to asthma, cancer, crisis management, diabetes, eye health, heart health, nutrition, substance abuse and prevention, and tobacco control. In this last area, for example, AIR is responsible for coordinating, implementing, and evaluating Indiana Tobacco Prevention and Cessation (ITPC) programs.