AIR researchers and collaborators are evaluating a holistic menstrual health and hygiene behavior change program in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, to inform improvements, adaptations, and scale-up of the program, and support evidence dissemination and uptake to improve the quality of life for girls, women, and other menstruating individuals. ...
Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4.1.1 measures the proportion of children and young people achieving at least a minimum proficiency level in reading and mathematics. However, measuring learning achievement in lower and upper primary grades remains challenging due to technical and financial constraints. AIR is providing direct technical assistance in select ...
Between 2018 and 2020—before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic—Burkina Faso experienced multiple shocks, leading to prolonged school absences even after the pandemic ebbed, increasing the risk that youth not attending school could be recruited into violent extremist organizations. AIR assisted Save the Children in focusing on support for reading, ...
Our workforce and postsecondary education teams engage with employers and postsecondary education institutions to study, understand, and track their adoption and maturation of related skills-based practices—including how they navigate the evolving landscape of skills-based practices.
Over a million people in the U.S. are currently living with profound vision loss (PVL). This project conducted a literature review and patient focus groups to capture, categorize, and prioritize symptoms of PVL towards the development of a clinical outcome assessment.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) established the Qualified Health Plan (QHP) Enrollee Experience Survey to provide actionable information to QHP issuers, as well as provide comparable and useful information to consumers about the quality of health care services and enrollee experience with QHPs created under the Affordable ...
Little is known about the most effective and accessible ways to engage people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) in remote, virtual research. The purpose of this work is to conduct research toward the development of rigorous research methods and approaches that can be used in virtual environments to enable ...
Throughout 2022 and 2023, AIR’s experienced team worked with Ohio Department of Education and Workforce leaders and subject matter experts to create an extensive crosswalk of high-demand and critical jobs in Ohio’s CTE career fields and pathways and examined the alignment to program availability through GIS mapping. ...
AIR, one of the world’s oldest and largest behavioral and social science institutions, is announcing two significant changes to its leadership. Jessica Heppen, a researcher and national expert on education policy and practice, is AIR’s new president and CEO. Lawrence D. Bobo, the dean of social science at Harvard University, is ...
Lisa Merrill is a senior researcher at AIR. Dr. Merrill seeks to partner with practitioners and young people to address needs emerging from the field through the application of rigorous research and the production of actionable findings. Dr. Merrill has extensive experience in survey construction and analyses, statistical analyses, supporting ...
