Health experts from AIR will present at the AcademyHealth's Annual Research Meeting on June 27 – 29, 2010 at the Hynes Veterans Memorial Convention Center in Boston, MA. AcademyHealth is a professional community of health services researchers and policy analysts who commit to using the best health research to improve ...
Linda Lin is a researcher at AIR with experience in designing and conducting education research and evaluation studies. Dr. Lin specializes in experimental and quasi-experimental study design and quantitative methodology, with a particular interest in casual inference methods, multilevel modeling and data mining. She also has extensive experience in developing ...
Kyle Neering is an economist in the Workforce Development program at AIR. As an applied microeconomist and mixed methods researcher, he relies on a wide variety of analytical techniques to better understand the implementation and effects of programs and policies in training and education. He has extensive experience applying these ...
The Plan, Do, Study, Act Process is central to the improvement of instructional routines. Watch one of the Better Math Teaching Network members in real time and in a real classroom setting introduce the Plan, Do, Study, Act, or PDSA, process.
Jennie Jiang is a senior researcher at AIR. She has led several large mixed-method studies on accountability, assessment policy, organizational practices, and data use. She has also designed and led several qualitative studies to understand participant experiences with and implementation of policies and programs. Jiang is the project director of ...
Cindy Van is a senior researcher in the Health Division at AIR. Her primary responsibilities include guiding performance improvement, providing technical leadership on learning system strategies, and developing creative solutions to address client needs. Van leads and contributes to tasks on federally funded projects. She has extensive experience in leading ...
Kamal Middlebrook is a research associate at AIR. His primary responsibilities include supporting evidence synthesis and measurement equity across education research. Middlebrook also focuses on equity in the workforce, among other systems across health and human development. He has extensive experience in survey research methods, along with other quantitative methods ...
Peter Mabli is a senior technical assistance consultant in the Education Statistics division at AIR, with over fifteen years of experience in public history and social studies education. His primary responsibilities include supporting and leading standards revision and professional development projects for state and local education agencies, with a focus ...
Roddy Theobald is a managing researcher in the Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER) at AIR. His primary responsibilities include overseeing eight externally-funded research projects related to the teacher labor market and its implications for student outcomes. He has extensive experience using large administrative datasets to ...
Jill Bowdon is a principal researcher at AIR. Dr. Bowdon has extensive training in statistical methods appropriate for making causal inferences, including experimental design and quasi-experimental methods. Altogether, she has 10 years of experience performing education research. Dr. Bowdon is a lead analyst for the Regional Educational Laboratory (REL) Midwest ...