American Institutes for Research

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American Institutes for Research

• Guillermo Solano-Flores
• CAESL Meeting, Carmel, CA
• June 4, 2004

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Warning!

• Personal View
• 14 months working in AIR
• Still getting familiar with the organization

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Size

• About 850 employees
• Over 200 clients,
• 117.2 M contract revenues in 2002
• Contracts with NIH, NSF, the U.S. Department of
  Education, 32 states, and several countries
• Offices in DC, Palo Alto, Concord, Chapel Hill,
  Sacramento, Maryland, Atlanta, Rio de Janeiro,
  Paris

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Programs

• Assessment
• Education and Human Development
• Education Statistics Service Institute
• Health
• International Development
• Workforce Analysis and Human Force
• Computer and Statistical Sciences Center

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Assessment

• K-12 local and state large-scale testing
• NAEP, CCSSO, states
• Validity, item development, standard setting
• Analysis and assessment data

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Education and Human Development

• Adult Education and Literacy
• Early Childhood
• Education Finance
• Education Technology
• Higher Education
• School Reform
• Special Education
• Childrens Mental Health
• Understanding Communities

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Being and EmployeeWhat its like

• Wide variety of specialties among colleagues
• Large infrastructure,
• Promotion based on detailed annual performance
  appraisal
• Cross-site and cross-program collaboration
• Levels 1-7
• Typically, a junior Ph.D. starts as a Level 4

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Interested?

• www.air.org
• resumes_at_air.org