For more than 25 years, AIR experts provided design and analytic support for large nationally representative longitudinal studies conducted by (NCES. These studies collectively follow cohorts of students from birth through postsecondary education and beyond.
Amanda Ortega, an applied researcher, has more than a decade of experience working to bridge research and practice. She has worked extensively as a monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) professional, embedded in project implementation teams facilitating evidence-based adaptive management. Her work has spanned over 18 countries across the globe and ...
At AIR, we help implement, measure, and assess a variety of skills-based practices that span the talent cycle, from employee attraction and attainment to development and retention.
At AIR, we help clients develop and implement effective talent solutions by conducting job and practice analyses, as well as building competency models that define the skills and behaviors critical for success.
AIR has partnered with Washington State University to test the ADAPT-AI tool, a human-AI collaborative tool designed to help elementary science teachers create and use adaptive formative assessments.
Guided by our mission, here are just some of the ways that AIR drove change, built partnerships, and explored new approaches to expanding opportunities and improving lives in 2025.
AIR supports the NAEP Technical Review project, ensuring that all NAEP publications and products are high quality (i.e., technically accurate and methodologically sound and robust), nonbiased, and accessible and cover a comprehensive range of relevant topics.
The NAEP Validity Panel provides the National Center for Education Statistics with independent evaluations of the quality of NAEP’s operational procedures and the validity of NAEP scores. It builds on AIR’s legacy of maintaining the NAEP Validity Studies Panel and the NAEP Delivery and Technology Panel. ...
