The Indiana Department of Education requested the Great Lakes Comprehensive Center (GLCC) assistance in conducting the academic standards and assessments study and preparing a proposal to the Indiana State Board of Education. GLCC identified and facilitated the department review of valuable resources for developing new standards for English language arts ...
California students who had attended Transitional Kindergarten were more advanced than their peers in language, literacy, mathematics and executive function, early results of a study by AIR show. The differences amount to as much as a five-month head start in kindergarten. Transitional Kindergarten grew out of California’s Kindergarten Readiness Act, ...
Ethiopia hosts more than 900,000 registered refugees and asylum seekers. To help displaced populations build sustainable livelihoods, UNICEF implemented the Building Self-Reliance for Refugees and Vulnerable Host Communities by Improved Sustainable Basic Social Service Delivery (BSRP) in five refugee-hosting regions of Ethiopia. AIR provided an impact evaluation of a BSRP ...
Contributing and working alongside Native Nations, AIR has a deep commitment to engaging communities, fostering shared vision and values, building capacity, and developing strategic alliances to achieve sustainable systems change in Indian Country.
This report compares three mathematics assessments conducted in 2003, and aims to provide information useful for interpreting and comparing results from the three assessments, based on an in-depth look at the content of the frameworks and items.
While the quality and completeness of Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) data have improved over time, many datasets do not meet expected standards. The DataConnect project seeks to improve and make better use of existing Medicaid and CHIP data by supporting the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services ...
AIR is working on two projects funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation focused on how to use measurement to drive transformative, meaningful, and sustainable change.
Jessica Heppen, a nationally recognized expert in education research, policy, and practice, is the president & CEO of AIR. Dr. Heppen been with AIR for 20 years and, in that time, has held several key roles during her tenure.
Robert Nathenson is a senior researcher at AIR. He has over 10 years of experience in the execution of rigorous econometric and behavioral science techniques to applied policy questions in the postsecondary education, pre-k-12 education, and health fields. Dr. Nathenson regularly conducts research using both experimental and quasi-experimental designs. His ...