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User Guide for the Training in Psychotherapy (TIP) Tool 2.0

The Training in Psychotherapy (TIP) Tool assesses how well psychotherapy trainings for community-based providers include elements of trainings identified as potentially effective. This guide provides an update of the TIP Tool based on pilot testing.

Dec 11, 2019

Kimberly A. Hepner, Stephanie Brooks Holliday, Jessica Sousa, Terri Tanielian
Report

School and Classroom Climate Measures: Considerations for Use by State and Local Education Leaders

This report provides broad guidance regarding assessment of school and classroom climate. It also features a list of resources and databases that focus explicitly on climate measures.

Dec 11, 2019

Jonathan Schweig, Laura S. Hamilton, Garrett Baker
Report

Competing in the Gray Zone: Russian Tactics and Western Responses

The authors of this report summarize a series of war games played to better understand European vulnerabilities to Russian gray zone tactics -- ambiguous actions that target domestic or international public opinion -- and how to effectively counter them.

Dec 11, 2019

Stacie L. Pettyjohn, Becca Wasser
Journal Article

Minding the Gaps: US Military Strategy Toward China

The U.S. national security community continues to consider the proper military response to China's ongoing military modernization efforts, but many aspects of the debate remain unresolved. If analysts writing on US military strategy toward China want to improve the public debate, these analytical gaps must be filled.

Dec 11, 2019

Derek Grossman, John Speed Meyers
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Gaming Gray Zone Tactics: Design Considerations for a Structured Strategic Game

The RAND Arroyo Center developed a strategic-level structured card game examining a gray zone competition between Russia and the West in the Balkans to better understand the nature of a gray zone competition with Russia.

Dec 11, 2019

Becca Wasser, Jenny Oberholtzer, Stacie L. Pettyjohn, William Mackenzie
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Profiles of News Consumption: Platform Choices, Perceptions of Reliability, and Partisanship

In this report, the authors use survey data to explore how U.S. media consumers interact with news platforms, finding mixed perceptions about the reliability of news and that consumer partisanship broadly shapes news consumption behavior.

Dec 10, 2019

Michael Pollard, Jennifer Kavanagh
Report

Envisioning a Comprehensive Peace Agreement for Afghanistan

In this report, the authors paint a detailed picture of a plausible final comprehensive peace agreement for Afghanistan. The report includes options for and analysis of realistic compromises, presented in the form of a complete peace agreement text.

Dec 10, 2019

Laurel E. Miller, Jonathan S. Blake
Report

2019 RAND Summer Institute Lecture Series

Video sessions from the 26th Annual RAND Summer Institute, two annual conferences in Santa Monica, California, which addressed critical issues facing our aging population: The Mini-Medical School for Social Scientists on July 8–9, and the Demography, Economics, Psychology, and Epidemiology of Aging conference on July 10–11, 2019.

Dec 9, 2019

Stefan Horvath, Eileen Crimmins, Kristine Yaffe
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Journal Article

An Observational Study of Retail Pharmacy Naloxone Prescriptions: Differences Across Provider Specialties and Patient Populations

This article explores variation in pharmacy-dispensed naloxone by prescriber specialty and patient characteristics.

Dec 6, 2019

Rosanna Smart, Caroline Geiger, Christopher M. Jones, Bradley D. Stein
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Journal Article

Strengths and Weaknesses of Existing Data Sources to Support Research to Address the Opioids Crisis

We conducted a scoping study to identify data sources and linking strategies commonly used in opioid studies, describe data source strengths and limitations, and highlight opportunities to use data to address public health research questions.

Dec 5, 2019

Rosanna Smart, Courtney Ann Kase, Erin Audrey Taylor, Bradley D. Stein
Report

Real-Time Crime Centers in Chicago: Evaluation of the Chicago Police Department's Strategic Decision Support Centers

The Chicago Police Department's Strategic Decision Support Centers (SDSCs) serve as command, control, and communications hubs. In this report, the authors evaluate the processes, organizational structures, and technologies employed in the SDSCs.

Dec 4, 2019

John S. Hollywood, Kenneth N. McKay, Dulani Woods, Denis Agniel
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RAND Arroyo Center Annual Report 2018-2019

This Annual Report illustrates the depth and breadth of the research conducted for the Army in fiscal year 2019.

Dec 4, 2019
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Student Growth Percentiles 101: Using Relative Ranks in Student Test Scores to Help Measure Teaching Effectiveness

The author defines student growth percentiles (SGPs) and discusses how they are used to rank student test-score growth compared with peers and to produce a score for a teacher.

Dec 4, 2019

Christopher Joseph Doss
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Teachers Matter: Understanding Teachers' Impact on Student Achievement

The author articulates how research suggests that teachers are important to student achievement and how statistical methods can provide valuable but imprecise estimates of teacher effectiveness.

Dec 4, 2019

Isaac M. Opper
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Measuring Teacher Effectiveness: Understanding Common, Uncommon, and Combined Methods

The author describes the three most-common methods for measuring teacher effectiveness in the United States and discusses the importance of carefully considering the ways that measures are combined to create an overall index.

Dec 4, 2019

Jonathan Schweig
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Beyond Achievement: How Teachers Affect Outcomes Other than Test Scores

Research shows that teachers matter for both test and nontest score outcomes. Teachers who excel at raising test scores do not necessarily excel at improving other outcomes.

Dec 4, 2019

Sy Doan
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Stakeholder Feedback Surveys as Indicators of Teaching Effectiveness

According to the author, stakeholder surveys address a broad range of topics related to school and classroom climate. Some types of surveys can be used for teacher-level feedback.

Dec 4, 2019

Jonathan Schweig, Laura S. Hamilton
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Teachers' Broad Impact: Understanding How Teachers Influence Students They Do Not Teach

The author discusses the potential ways that teachers can affect students whom they do not teach and how research suggests that a teacher's indirect reach could account for a large proportion of his or her overall contribution to student learning.

Dec 4, 2019

Isaac M. Opper
Report

Value-Added Modeling 101: Using Student Test Scores to Help Measure Teaching Effectiveness

The author discusses the use of value-added models (VAMs) to estimate teacher contribution to student progress, account for students' prior characteristics, and enable relative judgments, as well as the limitations of VAMs.

Dec 4, 2019

Isaac M. Opper
Journal Article

Journal Article

A Comprehensive Theory of Integration

This article presents a comprehensive theory describing how integrating structures, processes, and people within and across organizations might lead to integrated patient care and improved outcomes, including technical quality, efficiency, patient health, and both patient and provider experience.

Dec 3, 2019

Sara J. Singer, Michaela J. Kerrissey, Mark W. Friedberg, Russell S. Phillips

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