The Ohio Department of Education wanted to assess the quality of the literacy instruction received by students in state-funded early learning and preschool programs and to provide teachers with information to improve their practice. AIR conducted more than 1,400 observations of early learning environments across the state using the Early ...
In 2008, the Indiana Department of Education (IDOE) launched a diagnostic assessment program in which teachers in Grades K–8 classrooms administered commercially available interim assessments to their students. Results from each test were available to teachers, who were expected to use them to diagnose students’ strengths and weaknesses and adjust ...
On this project, AIR was responsible for identifying three districts—Broward County, Florida; Miami; and Houston—with similar demographics and financial circumstances and comparing their student achievement to Clark County’s.
The Miami-Dade County Public Schools Project Lead Strong was designed to develop leadership capacity in chronically low-performing schools. Assistant principals and principals in higher performing schools are formally trained to lead turnaround schools by participating in professional development and job-shadowing experiences. AIR is conducting an evaluation of this initiative, tracking ...
Boston Public Schools (BPS) and the National Center on Time & Learning partnered to turn around two low-performing Boston middle schools by implementing the Turnaround Using Increased Learning Time model. AIR examined program implementation to provide formative feedback to BPS and partner organizations and to document the implementation process. ...
A variety of health, wellness and school climate issues interact to either support or undermine student performance in school. To track these factors, the Ohio Department of Education contracted with AIR to develop and administer the Ohio Healthy Schools Profile System, which supports data collection, analysis, and reporting of health ...
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 ...
AIR provided the Vermont Department of Education with a comprehensive evaluation to assist the department in meeting the reporting and evaluation requirements for the U.S. Department of Education’s Title II, Part D Enhancing Education Through Technology (EETT) program. As part of the evaluation, AIR developed a suite of survey data collection ...
More than 100 supplemental educational services (SES) providers offer tutoring and support to as many as 180,000 students across 1,200 school districts in Texas. AIR and its partners conducted a comprehensive evaluation to provide the Texas Education Agency (TEA) and Education Service Center Region XIII with information about provider effectiveness ...
The Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS) was an integrated study public and private school districts, schools, principals, and teachers designed to provide descriptive data on the context of elementary and secondary education. AIR provided support for all aspects of SASS.