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Joshua R. Polanin, Ph.D. is a principal researcher in the Research & Evaluation program at American Institutes for Research (AIR). He has extensive experience in quantitative methodology and has published over 50 peer-reviewed journal articles across education, criminology, public health, and methodology, including more than 20 peer-reviewed, published meta-analyses. Dr. ...

Ashley Kaiser is a survey methodologist at AIR. She has extensive experience in survey design, methodology and data analysis. Her expertise includes survey development, data programming, code and methodological review, analysis, data documentation and quality control of data files. During her six years at AIR, Kaiser has applied her skills and ...

Fusun Sahin is a researcher at AIR. Dr. Sahin has been contributing to the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) work in assessment operations, research, and reporting teams. She contributes to the NAEP project with her expertise in process data (i.e., log data that include record of examinees’ interactions within ...

Ashley Roberts is a senior researcher at AIR. She is the project director for the Federal Interagency Forums work at AIR which supports the production of the annual America’s Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being report by the Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics and the Older Americans: ...

Jennifer Sable is a principal researcher at AIR whose work focuses on the collection and processing of administrative records data, with a focus on data from state and local education agencies. She also has a variety of experiences in managing projects and providing technical oversight for data collections and data ...

Jeremy Redford is a senior researcher in the National and International Statistics practice area within the Research and Evaluation program at AIR. His primary responsibilities include leading the Data Development Program project that authors statistical reports for the National Center for Education Statistics. Redford also provides expertise in survey design, ...

Ting Zhang is a senior research scientist/psychometrician at AIR. Dr. Zhang currently serves as project director of the NCES Data R Project, in which she leads a team of statisticians and data scientists developing a statistical R package tailored for analysis of NCES national and international large-scale data including NAEP, ...

Samantha Sniegowski is a senior researcher working on afterschool and expanded learning initiatives with the Learning Supports Network at AIR. She is responsible for coordinating and monitoring data collection activities, conducting data analyses, writing reports, and project coordination. Sniegowski’s current projects include Chicago Public Schools Community Schools Initiative evaluation; Texas, ...

Cheng Shuang (Grace) Ji is a senior researcher in the Research and Evaluation program at AIR. Her primary responsibilities include managing the state mapping project and conducting research on social-emotional learning, college and career preparedness, testing behaviors, and improving measures of social economic status. Ji also provides statistical support and reviews of technical documents and web publications for NAEP, ...

Yan Wang is a principal researcher at AIR. She is currently the project director for the ED School Climate Surveys, sponsored by NCES and leads AIR’s support for NAEP survey questionnaires and the IEA International Computer and Information Literacy Study. In 2017, ED will create school climate benchmark scores. These ...