When approached by a federal agency looking to improve service delivery experiences and outcomes for customers with disabilities, we discovered that while staff on the frontlines understood what the law required of them, they often struggled to put policy into practice when providing customer service. We provided assistance applying key ...
AIR developed a systematic, transparent, evidence-based protocol to review and translate the extant research about juvenile drug courts and related interventions into comprehensive, reasonable, actionable, understandable, and measurable guidelines.
Over a million adults participate in programs each year that are designed to improve their literacy, English proficiency, and other foundational skills that will prepare them for further education and rewarding jobs. The Collaborative Research for Educating Adults with Technology Enhancements (CREATE Adult Skills Network) is designed to facilitate the ...
Experts from AIR will offer presentations on a variety of workplace and training issues at the annual conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) April 23-25, 2015 in Philadelphia. The 30th annual SIOP conference, which will be held at the Philadelphia Downtown Marriot, offers opportunities for experts ...
The purpose of this project is to plan, research, design, and execute the annual Indicators of School Crime and Safety, a flagship report co-sponsored by the National Center for Education Statistics and the Bureau of Justice Statistics.
Youth violence disrupts communities and businesses, increases health care costs, and decreases property values—not to mention the human impact. The Safe and Successful Youth Initiative (SSYI) in Massachusetts combines health and safety approaches to eliminating serious violence among high-risk, urban youth. Does it work? Three new AIR evaluations, ...
Experts from AIR will offer presentations on a variety of workplace and training issues at the annual conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) April 14-16, 2016, in Anaheim, California. The 31st annual SIOP conference offers experts opportunities to network, trade ideas, forge partnerships and keep up ...
Twenty percent of U.S. college students completing 4-year degrees—and 30 percent of students earning 2-year degrees—have only basic quantitative literacy skills, meaning they are unable to estimate if their car has enough gasoline to get to the next gas station or calculate the total cost of ordering office supplies, according ...
Researchers from the American Institutes for Research (AIR) will address a broad range of human performance and workplace issues during the 25th annual conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP), which is being held April 8-10, 2010 in Atlanta.
Reading Apprenticeship is a professional learning program for middle and high school teachers to help students be successful readers in content areas. AIR, as a sub to WestEd, and funded by U.S. Department of Education, is implementing an impact and implementation evaluation of a SEED grant over the course of ...