This research brief, the second from the Back on Track study, describes the role of in-class mentors in the online classrooms and examines whether students benefited from additional instructional support from their in-class mentors.
Women are underrepresented in science and engineering, with the underrepresentation increasing in career stage. This article, from the May 2016 issue of American Economic Review, analyzes gender differences at critical junctures in the STEM pathway—graduate training and the early career—using UMETRICS administrative data matched to the 2010 Census and W-2s. ...
Iowa launched Every Learner Inquires, a K–12 professional development initiative to promote inquiry-based science instruction, with the goals of improving student learning, building the necessary teacher leadership and content expertise, and establishing a structure for sustained implementation. The AIR evaluation team conducted a formative and summative evaluation—using surveys, interviews, classroom ...
Ruhan Circi is a principal data scientist at AIR. In this role, she participates in National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) research study design, analysis, quality control, and report writing activities. Currently, she is leading a variety of NAEP process data projects, including data management and quality checking, students’ navigation ...