Steven Garfinkel has 40 years’ experience in health services research, with a particular focus on health insurance, including Medicare, Medicaid, and private health insurance; health care outcomes and quality, especially the development of measures and the evaluation of their impact; and health care organization. As an AIR Institute Fellow, he ...
Allison Gruner Gandhi oversees project execution, human capital resource allocation, and business development for portfolios of work related to instructional practice and intervention from early childhood through high school, including supports for students with disabilities and English learners and best practices for educator preparation and performance. Dr. Gandhi has extensive ...
On Thursday, January 23rd and Friday, January 24th 2014, the National Center for the Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER) will hold its Seventh Annual Research Conference. This year’s conference will bring together policy analysts and prominent scholars in education research to examine how policies in grades K-12 ...
Chad Duhon leads AIR's portfolio of work in education systems and policy, which focuses on studying and supporting individuals, organizations, and infrastructure at the local, state, and national levels. In his role, Duhon guides strategic planning, business development, quality assurance, and external eminence building, all in service of strengthening connections ...
Mariann Fedele-McLeod is a managing technical assistance consultant at AIR and leads the adult learning portfolio. She has been involved in the field of adult education since 1991 as a teacher, program administrator, and professional developer.
Gabriele Fain has worked on a range of research, evaluation, and technical assistance projects for local, state, and federal agencies. Her areas of expertise include early childhood education, early childhood mental health, and family support services. Currently, Fain is directing a portfolio of research and evaluation projects for Michigan, in support ...
Katie Dahlke has over 15 years of experience as a program evaluator and researcher, with a focus studying early care and education (ECE) settings and evaluating PreK-12 education programs. Her technical areas of expertise includes quasi-experimental, experimental, and mixed methods research and evaluation design as well as measure development and ...
Stephanie Cronen is a managing researcher at AIR. Dr. Cronen’s work during the past 20+ years has focused largely on managing and conducting large-scale research studies, including survey research, experimental studies, and mixed-methods studies in adult education, professional development, and workforce preparation. ...
Michael P. Cohen is a principal psychometrician/statistician in the Education Statistics Program at AIR. He is a sampling statistician with over 40 years’ experience in complex survey design and estimation, including sample design, imputation, variances, sample size and power determination, weighting, and multilevel models (hierarchical linear models). This experience includes ...
Greta Colombi has 15 years of experience in program monitoring and reporting, technical assistance, and research in both the education and the health and human services fields. Colombi is currently the deputy director of the National Center on Safe Supportive Learning Environments. In addition to helping to manage the Center, ...
