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
Public Sector Pay for Performance

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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
Social Program Evaluation

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Advancing Social Outcomes: Private Investors Could Be Part of the Solution
Under a Social Impact Bond, private investors — rather than the government — provide up-front funding for programs that tackle such challenges as recidivism or homelessness. If these programs succeed, the government pays some of the savings back to the investors.
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May 14, 2013
Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity
Jennifer Rubin, Emma Disley

Quoted

The COP decisionmaking process reflects its members' consensus views. And therein lies the problem. The Paris Agreement should have achieved the socially better outcomes of binding emissions control to finance and binding each country to its target of emissions and finance.…That it did not do so was because the coalitions' views prevailed rather than the social good.

Rafiq Dossani

Director, RAND Center for Asia Pacific Policy

Source: United Press International

Women have fought in wars for as long as humans have waged them. Yet that long history has been either lost or purposefully hidden, complicating efforts to expand women's military roles even as we have steadily gained greater equality in other fields.

Kayla M. Williams

Senior Policy Researcher

Source: Association of the U.S. Army

Using AI to Identify Youth Suicide Risk: What Does the Evidence Say?

Disrupting the Chinese Military in Competition and Low-Intensity Conflict

America's Indo-Pacific Alliances Are Astonishingly Strong

Resilient Reconstruction in Ukraine

Preventing Domestic Violent Extremism: Insights from RAND Research

The Policy Currents Podcast

Developing Strategies for Summer Learning

Improving Psychological Wellbeing and Work Outcomes in the UK

Planning for the Rising Costs of Dementia

Helping Coastal Communities Plan for Climate Change

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

Advancing Social Outcomes: Private Investors Could Be Part of the Solution

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