2012-05-24T13:50:27Z Copyright (c) 2012, The RAND Corporation RAND Corporation http://www.rand.org/pubs/reprints.html http://www.rand.org/pubs/reprints/RP1433.html 2012-01-27T10:15:00Z 2012-01-27T10:15:00Z

Reports the results of interviews with primary care providers and specialist reviewers about the implementation of eReferral, an electronic referral system that creates direct communication between referring and specialty providers.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/reprints/RP1431.html 2011-10-18T07:00:00Z 2011-10-18T07:00:00Z

In this interview, Willis Ware discusses his career in the context of the spread of digital computing since the 1940, including his work on the JOHNNIAC computer at RAND in the 1950s.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/reprints/RP1430.html 2011-09-06T06:15:00Z 2011-09-06T06:15:00Z

Assesses the effect that missing data in student achievement records, and the assumption that such data are missing at random, have on value-added modeling approaches to using student achievement data to assess school and teacher performance.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/reprints/RP1427.html 2011-07-29T05:00:00Z 2011-07-29T05:00:00Z

Discusses an array of methods that have been used to assess, using data on stops made by police officers, the existence or extent of racially biased policing.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/reprints/RP1429.html 2011-07-26T07:30:00Z 2011-07-26T07:30:00Z

Assesses whether targeting new gun buyers with a public safety message aimed at improving gun law awareness affects gun buyers' behaviors.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/reprints/RP1428.html 2011-06-21T06:45:00Z 2011-06-21T06:45:00Z

Examines the progress that Qatar has made in implementing a comprehensive reform, begun in 2002, of its K-12 education system.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/reprints/RP1426.html 2011-05-26T00:01:00Z 2011-05-26T00:01:00Z

Details how leaders in 10 California school districts are responding to the deregulation of $4.5 billion in education funding.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/reprints/RP1423.html 2011-02-11T07:30:00Z 2011-02-11T07:30:00Z

Explore options for conducting a set of trials to test the feasibility of transitioning from fuel excise taxes to a system of road use charges based on vehicle miles of travel.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/reprints/RP1422.html 2011-02-04T05:15:00Z 2011-02-04T05:15:00Z

Discusses alternative ways to think about modeling and simulation.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/reprints/RP1416.html 2010-10-13T11:59:00Z 2010-10-13T11:59:00Z

Describes the Project on Incentives in Teaching (POINT), a three-year study intended to assess the effect of financial rewards for teachers whose students showed unusually large gains on standardized tests.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/reprints/RP1412.html 2010-08-04T13:17:00Z 2010-08-04T13:17:00Z

Surveys the subject of air power as an area of research in international security studies and provides a bibliography of significant works and useful online resources.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/reprints/RP1411.html 2010-06-22T13:35:00Z 2010-06-22T13:35:00Z

Many e-books are merely an electronic image of a paper product; others broaden the spectrum of publishing. Examining three innovative digital texts demonstrates the potential and challenges of electronic publications.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/reprints/RP1413.html 2010-06-04T07:38:00Z 2010-06-04T07:38:00Z

Discusses military transformation across the eight years of the George W. Bush administration, particularly those in which Donald Rumsfeld was secretary of defense.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/reprints/RP1392.html 2010-05-03T13:28:00Z 2010-05-03T13:28:00Z

Provides a factual framework to help consumer advocates, health care providers, and policymakers better understand California's Medicare population and inform their efforts to design programs and policies that meet beneficiaries' needs.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/reprints/RP1409.html 2010-01-25T14:03:00Z 2010-01-25T14:03:00Z

Examines the relationship between information technology, organization, and productivity in the public sector using a panel data set of police departments that covers 1987 through 2003.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/reprints/RP1395.html 2009-09-25T14:36:00Z 2009-09-25T14:36:00Z

Explores ways that direct charges to road users, based on vehicle-miles of travel (VMT), could be implemented by 2015.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/reprints/RP1394.html 2009-08-19T13:20:00Z 2009-08-19T13:20:00Z

Presents a statistical method to flag police officers who may potentially exhibit racial bias when making pedestrian stops.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/reprints/RP1391.html 2009-04-23T08:04:00Z 2009-04-23T08:04:00Z

Suggests ways the U.S. could address concerns about the growing lawlessness in northern Mexico and its consequences for U.S. national security.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/reprints/RP1386.html 2009-03-10T13:58:00Z 2009-03-10T13:58:00Z

Explores how increased complexity affects competition and innovation in the context of defense acquisition.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/reprints/RP1385.html 2009-02-05T13:22:00Z 2009-02-05T13:22:00Z

The development and acceptance of e-books today parallels incunabula in the 15th century. This paper considers three examples of innovative e-books to illustrate the potential and pitfalls of electronic publications.