Performance Measurement

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What Can We Learn from High-Performing Research Units?
Central characteristics of high-performing research units are the high quality of the people and the culture and values displayed within the department, which is often a result of leadership. It is also interesting to explore their differences, such as what makes a unit particularly good at having impact versus producing high-quality publications.
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Jun 28, 2016
Open Forum Events
Catriona Manville, Sarah Parks

Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy

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What Makes for High-Performing Research? The Right Mix of Staff and Appropriate Leadership
With many different higher education institutions in the UK covering a diverse range of disciplines, and delivering research in a variety of ways, it can be difficult to determine the qualities and characteristics of high-performing higher education institutions.
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Feb 22, 2016
PolicyWonkers
Catriona Manville, Saba Hinrichs
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Scoring the Surgeon Scorecard
There is no tradeoff between recognizing the serious methodological problems in the ProPublica Surgeon Scorecard, improving the Scorecard, and encouraging providers to release their own data. All three can and should be done simultaneously.
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Oct 14, 2015
The Health Care Blog
Mark W. Friedberg
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When It Comes to Police-Community Relations, 'Expect What You Inspect'
As the President's Task Force on 21st Century Policing report suggests, local governments should evaluate police on more than crime statistics, and police departments and officers should be held publicly accountable for meeting the community's expectations. Adding new dimensions of performance metrics would help.
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Mar 17, 2015
The RAND Blog
Jessica Saunders, Laura Patton
Program Evaluation

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A Competitive Landscape for Providing Services Is an Opportunity for Evidence-Building, but Who Will Benefit?
In a tight fiscal climate the UK government has been an innovator in ways to fund and deliver effective public services. New funding arrangements present opportunities for developing the evidence base for policy and practice, since they are associated with different types of service providers.
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Dec 2, 2014
PolicyWonkers
Jennifer Rubin, Emma Disley
Health Care Quality Measurement

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The ACA's Opportunity to Improve Care for Substance Use Disorders
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) will significantly increase coverage for the publicly funded treatment of substance use disorders. But in order to maximize the benefit to patients, families, and society, it's critical to invest in the development, validation, and use of performance measures.
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Jul 28, 2014
The RAND Blog
Katherine E. Watkins
Scientific Professions

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Metrics Mess Calls for an Umpire, Not a Purge
Bibliometricians, who have so far paid little attention to how their creations behave when released into the wild, should be monitoring how metrics are being applied and devising guidelines for best practice, writes Gemma Derrick.
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Jun 27, 2013
Research Fortnight
Gemma Derrick

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While neurodivergent diagnoses are not automatically disqualifying from Army service, any new recruit who reveals a diagnosis jumps through hoops to serve. Some described having to prove that their diagnoses do not impede their ability to serve, which puts the burden on an eighteen-year-old to prove a negative for which the Army has no assessment criteria.

Cortney Weinbaum

Senior Management Scientist

Source: Modern War Institute (West Point)

Indefinite deployment and inadequate rest and rotation, due to a shortage of soldiers, mean that Russian soldiers endure prolonged exposure to combat stress, which intensifies feelings of resentment and helplessness.

Dara Massicot

Senior Policy Researcher

Source: The Economist

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What Does Environmental Justice Look Like?

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Performance Measurement

What Can We Learn from High-Performing Research Units?

What Makes for High-Performing Research? The Right Mix of Staff and Appropriate Leadership

Scoring the Surgeon Scorecard

When It Comes to Police-Community Relations, 'Expect What You Inspect'

A Competitive Landscape for Providing Services Is an Opportunity for Evidence-Building, but Who Will Benefit?

The ACA's Opportunity to Improve Care for Substance Use Disorders

Metrics Mess Calls for an Umpire, Not a Purge

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