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AAI and its centers partner with numerous agencies to improve the lives of children and adults through academics, employment, career advancement, and building healthy environments, and to enhance the capacity of organizations that help children, adults, and communities succeed.
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Celebrating 10 Years of AAI
Learn about our origins and how we have grown over the last 10 years.
AAI in the News
Harnessing AI: AAI and KU Researchers Advance Innovation and Critical Understanding Across Fields
Researchers at KU, including those at the Achievement & Assessment Institute, are advancing breakthroughs in AI. From educational tools to ethical frameworks, their work is shaping how we understand and apply AI to real-world challenges.
Applied Innovations with LaCretia Wooten
The work of the Achievement & Assessment Institute (AAI) and its centers encompass a vast range of services, solutions, and partnerships. In our short interview series, Applied Innovations, we get to know some of the talented members of our team and their projects, across many centers and various areas of impact.
In this edition, we meet LaCretia Wooten, Director of GEAR UP KCK, a program within AAI's Center for Educational Opportunity Programs.
Center for Certification & Competency-Based Education Publishes New Research Journal
The Achievement & Assessment Institute’s Center for Certification & Competency-Based Education (C3Be) has launched the Competency-Based Education Research Journal (CBERJ), which serves to advance knowledge of competency-based education through empirical investigations, theory development articles and integrative conceptual reviews.
AAI announces the Center for Geography of Education Policy
The Achievement & Assessment Institute (AAI) at the University of Kansas has announced the Center for Geography of Education Policy. The center’s main purpose is to explore the ways that education policy and school management are both shaped by and shape geography.