Assessing Impact to Inform Decisions

A Toolkit on Measures for Policymakers

Scott Savitz, Miriam Matthews, Sarah Weilant

ToolPublished Jul 25, 2017

Well-designed measures are essential for informing plans, decisions, assessments, and communications with key stakeholders. This toolkit provides a very brief overview of how to identify concepts that should be measured, how to evaluate measures, and how to identify new measures that can contribute to better-informed decisions, plans, and assessments. It is based on the content presented in a series of instructional, interactive workshops that RAND conducted for the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy in 2016 and 2017. This content was derived from a series of prior RAND reports, as discussed in the body of the document.

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Savitz, Scott, Miriam Matthews, and Sarah Weilant, Assessing Impact to Inform Decisions: A Toolkit on Measures for Policymakers. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 2017. https://www.rand.org/pubs/tools/TL263.html.
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