AIR today announced the promotions of six senior executives – Jon Cohen, Mark Kutner, Marilyn Moon, Laura Salganik, Steve Kromer, and Sabrina Laine – effective January 1, 2011.
The launch of end-of-grade tests for about 1.7 million students in Honduras marks a major achievement for the nation’s education system, and the latest milestone for MIDEH (Improving the Impact of Student Development in Honduras). To celebrate and kick off the tests, President Porfirio Lobo Sosa and his cabinet visited ...
Werner Wothke, a principal statistician at AIR, has been awarded the prestigious Bradley Hanson Award for 2011 by the National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME).
Harold Doran, a principal research scientist for the American Institutes for Research (AIR), is one of 16 assessment and accountability experts chosen by Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings to serve on the National Technical Advisory Council (NTAC). The council will advise the U.S. Department of Education on state implementation of ...
Staff from AIR will discuss a wide range of education issues, from implementing standards and assessment in countries like Honduras, Egypt and Nicaragua to community empowerment and teacher professional development during presentations at the annual conference of the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) May 1-5, 2011, in Montreal, Quebec, ...
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Experts with the American Institutes for Research (AIR) will give a series of presentations during AcademyHealth’s Annual Research Meeting June 13-16, 2014 in Minneapolis, including a panel presentation on the use of public deliberation to assess the public’s use of evidence in health care decision making. ...
Dr. Gary Phillips, a nationally known expert on educational assessments and a vice president with the American Institutes for Research (AIR), will offer his insights on "The Past and Future of Reading in America: The Big Picture" during his keynote address November 22nd at the West Virginia Reading Association's annual ...
A new study of the alignment between the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), adopted by most states, and the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), the longtime barometer of academic achievement among the nation’s students, found “reasonable agreement” overall but also some areas of 4th and 8th grade math where ...
Darren Cambridge, an expert in education technology and online communities of practice at the American Institutes for Research (AIR), has been awarded the Faculty Writing Prize for his "innovative and groundbreaking" book, Eportfolios for Lifelong Learning and Assessment.