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Race to the Top Assessments: Common Core Standards and Their Impact on Student Testing

Panelists will discuss Race to the Top Assessments: Common Core Standards and Their Impact on Student Testing at the Brookings Institution on Thursday, October 28.
Variation in the Relationship Between Nonschool Factors and Student Achievement on International Assessments

This Statistics in Brief examines the relationship between six nonschool factors and student achievement in countries that participated in the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2003. The nonschool factors were: highest level of education attained by either of the students' parents; the highest occupational status of either of the ...
AIR Experts Converge on Vancouver for International Education Conference

AIR experts will participate in the 2016 annual conference of the Comparative and International Education Society, being held March 6-10 in Vancouver, Canada, where they will address a multitude of topics, including education and the Ebola crisis in Liberia, reading issues in South India, the use of free online data ...
Assessing the Efficacy of Online Credit Recovery on Student Learning and High School Graduation

School districts across the country are increasingly using online courses to expand credit recovery options for high school students who need to get back on track toward graduation. In partnership with the Los Angeles Unified School District, AIR is working to provide evidence for practitioners and policymakers about how a ...
AASA and AIR Virtual Research, Practice, and Policy Event

Join AIR research experts and superintendents to discuss the findings from the research briefs and the implications for practice and policy in a post-COVID era.
Cambium Learning Group Completes Its Acquisition of Assessment Division of the American Institutes for Research

Cambium Learning Group, Inc. , a leading provider in education software and portfolio company of Veritas Capital, today announced that it has completed its acquisition of AIR Assessment, the student assessment division of AIR, one of the world’s largest behavioral and social science research organizations. The new business unit brings ...
Examining NAEP Achievement in Relation to School Testing Conditions in the 2010 Assessments

This study examined NAEP testing conditions in schools and investigated whether being assessed in less than optimal testing conditions is associated with lower student achievement on the assessments.
Uncovering Challenges with Assessment in the California Dual Language Learner Pilot Study
Computer Familiarity and Its Relationship to Performance in Three NAEP Digital-Based Assessments

Because NAEP is transitioning its paper-and-pencil assessments to a digital format, it is important to understand the relationship between students' familiarity with computers and their performance. This study, which analyzed three of NAEP's early digital-based assessments, found that home computer access was positively related to student performance. ...
Assessing the Impact of College- and Career-Ready Standards: Findings, Challenges, and Future Directions

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