Jon Cohen

Jon Cohen is Vice President of the American Institutes for Research, where he has worked since 1988. Dr. Cohen is Director of the Assessment Program, which develops and implements curriculum and standards-based achievement assessments for states and other entities and conducts research and technical development on the methodology of assessment, and helps users analyze and interpret assessment data. Dr. Cohen researches statistical methods for surveys and large-scale assessments. He has developed statistical models that deal with a variety of measurement and sampling issues and focus as much on characterizing the uncertainty of estimates as on the estimates themselves. Dr. Cohen also develops software, and he has implemented many of these models in freely distributed programs. Dr. Cohen holds a Ph.D. in Government, Methodology and American Politics from The University of Texas at Austin.