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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
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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
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Army Fires Capabilities for 2025 and Beyond

To assist the Army in its reorientation toward conventional combat operations, the authors of this report identify capability gaps in the field artillery and actions that the Army should consider taking from today to roughly 2030.

Dec 3, 2019

John IV Gordon, Igor Mikolic-Torreira, D. Sean Barnett, Katharina Ley Best, Scott Boston, Dan Madden, Danielle C. Tarraf, Jordan Willcox
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Navigating Current and Emerging Army Recruiting Challenges: What Can Research Tell Us?

The author draws on a large body of research on recruiting and examines tools and resources—including recruiters and recruiting management, eligibility criteria, and pay and bonuses—that can help the Army meet recruiting challenges.

Dec 3, 2019

Beth J. Asch
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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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Using Health IT to Coordinate Care and Improve Quality in Safety-Net Clinics

The use of health information technology (HIT) for such activities as arranging enabling services and engaging patients are underused tools for care coordination. There may be opportunities to improve quality of care for vulnerable patients by promoting health centers' use of HIT capabilities.

Dec 3, 2019

Ashley M. Kranz, Sarah Dalton, Cheryl L. Damberg, Justin W. Timbie
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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 3, 2019

John S. Hollywood, Kenneth N. McKay, Dulani Woods, Denis Agniel
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Improving 21st Century Skills in the U.S. Air Force

For a 21st century workforce, you need 21st century skills. The authors of this Perspective offer recommendations to the U.S. Air Force to use lessons learned in different sectors to develop a strategy for airmen to learn and use 21st century skills.

Dec 2, 2019

Rebecca Herman, Samantha E. DiNicola, Charles P. Armentrout, Shirley M. Ross
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Specialty Care Access for Medicaid Enrollees in Expansion States

In a survey of community health center medical directors in 9 Medicaid expansion states and DC, nearly 60% reported difficulty obtaining new specialist visits and multiple access barriers on behalf of their patients.

Nov 27, 2019

Justin W. Timbie, Ashley M. Kranz, Ammarah Mahmud, Cheryl L. Damberg
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Federally Qualified Health Center Strategies for Integrating Care with Hospitals and Their Association with Measures of Communication

Health centers differ in the use of strategies to integrate care with hospitals. Overall, integration activity is associated with better communication.

Nov 27, 2019

Justin W. Timbie, Ashley M. Kranz, Ammarah Mahmud, Claude Messan Setodji, Cheryl L. Damberg
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On the Need for Prospective Disaster Survey Panels

Understanding how human beings respond to emergencies is difficult, because a lack of predisaster data often makes before-and-after comparisons impossible.

Nov 26, 2019

Andrew M. Parker, Amanda F. Edelman, Katherine Grace Carman, Melissa L. Finucane
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Promoting Youth Well-Being Through Health and Education: Insights and Opportunities

Although well-being frameworks that integrate education and health exist, few of them have been examined rigorously to reveal how both educational and health outcomes can be achieved together.

Nov 26, 2019

Wing Yi Chan, Jennifer Sloan, Anita Chandra
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Understanding U.S. Health Systems: Using Mixed Methods to Unpack Organizational Complexity

Researchers need qualitative data to understand how health systems actually work and influence clinical practice.

Nov 26, 2019

M. Susan Ridgely, Erin L. Duffy, Laura J. Wolf, Mary E. Vaiana, Dennis P. Scanlon, Christine Buttorff, Brigitt Leitzell, Sangeeta C. Ahluwalia, Lara Hilton, Denis Agniel, Amelia Haviland, Cheryl L. Damberg
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The Limits of Russian Strategy in the Middle East

This Perspective describes the limits of Russia's strategy in the Middle East, including the challenges from Russia's own political and economic systems, limitations from regional actors in the Middle East, and challenges from the United States.

Nov 26, 2019

Becca Wasser
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Availability of Family Violence Services for Military Service Members and Their Families

The authors examine resources available to military-affiliated victims and perpetrators of child abuse/neglect and domestic abuse, barriers to utilization, and challenges faced in addressing these issues, and recommend ways to improve services.

Nov 25, 2019

Coreen Farris, Margaret Tankard, Praise O. Iyiewuare, Lynn Rosenthal, Angela Clague, Laura L. Miller, Peter Glick, Katharine Sieck, Radha Iyengar Plumb
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Impact of the Southwark and Lambeth Integrated Care Older People's Programme on Hospital Utilisation and Costs: Controlled Time Series and Cost-Consequence Analysis

This article estimates the impact on hospital utilisation and costs of a multi-faceted primary care intervention for older people identified as being at risk of avoidable hospitalisation. It concludes the intervention was not cost saving.

Nov 22, 2019

Josephine Exley, Gary A. Abel, Jose-Luis Fernandez, Emma Pitchforth, Silvia C. Mendonca, Miaoqing Yang, Martin Roland, Alistair McGuire
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Participant Experiences with a New Online Modified-Delphi Approach for Engaging Patients and Caregivers in Developing Clinical Guidelines

Participants were satisfied with an online approach to participating in guideline development.

Nov 21, 2019

Courtney Armstrong, Sean Grant, Kathi Kinnett, Brian Denger, Ann Martin, Ian D. Coulter, Marika Booth, Dmitry Khodyakov
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Return of Value in the New Era of Biomedical Research: One Size Will Not Fit All

Determining appropriate return of value in biomedical research will entail finding the point of equilibrium between feasibility and usefulness.

Nov 21, 2019

Dmitry Khodyakov, Alexandra Mendoza-Graf, Sandra H. Berry, Camille Nebeker, Elizabeth Bromley

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