A new research brief released by the U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences documents states’ capacity to support school turnaround as of spring 2012 and spring 2013. The brief, the result of a collaboration between experts at AIR and Mathematica Policy Research, found that at least three-quarters of ...
Frank Rider, a specialist in financing mental health services for children and youth with the American Institutes for Research, has been named to an inaugural advisory panel of the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, tasked with disseminating evidence-based research to help patients under the Affordable Care Act. ...
CBAM is a conceptual framework that provides tools and techniques for facilitating and assessing the implementation of new innovations or reform initiatives. Since its development in the 1970s and 1980s, it has been used to help leaders, evaluators, and researchers understand, monitor, and guide the complex process of implementing new ...
This webinar provides an overview of the process of using the Concerns-Based Adoption Model for managing the implementation and impact of reform initiatives. During the webinar, center staff introduce you to the CBAM tools and their uses. You will also hear from a school district representative who uses these tools ...
The Good Behavior Game is a team-based classroom behavior management strategy designed for early grades, helping children master the role of student and be successful at the demands of the classroom. AIR is working with Mentor UK and their partners to implement the Good Behavior Game in 74 primary schools ...
The Good Behavior Game is a team-based classroom behavior management strategy that promotes positive behavior and has shown positive long-term impacts for students. AIR's Good Behavior Game team joined the Brazilian Ministry of Health to pre-pilot the Good Behavior Game in Brazil.
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 Research on International Studies in Education (RISE) Webinar Series, organized by AIR, showcases research using data from international studies and promotes sharing and discussion about how data-based evidence can be used for improving educational outcomes.
As Medicare celebrates 50 years since its signing into law by President Lyndon Johnson, experts look at the challenges facing the program today. While cost and other reforms are foremost in many policymakers' minds, experts caution that reforms need to keep the program's intended beneficiaries in mind, protecting the most ...
Education measurement experts from the American Institutes for Research (AIR) will participate in the National Council on Measurement in Education’s (NCME) annual meeting, being held April 15-19 at the Intercontinental Chicago in Chicago, IL.
