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Program Evaluation

Report
Increasing Efficiency and Incentives for Performance in the Army's Selective Reenlistment Bonus (SRB) Program
This report documents research and analysis whose purpose was to help the Army determine how to best increase incentives for higher performance among enlisted members and to more efficiently achieve Army retention objectives.
Oct 5, 2021
Tool
A Guide to Evaluating Marine and Family Division Programs, Services, and Capabilities: An Introduction to Program Evaluation
The U.S. Marine Corps' Marine and Family Program Division (MF) portfolio includes a variety of programs and services. This tool provides a brief introduction to program evaluation, the use of systematic processes to assess a program's effectiveness.
Sep 30, 2021
Tool
A Guide to Evaluating Marine and Family Division Programs, Services, and Capabilities
For Marine and Family Division programs and services to remain meaningful, credible, and practical, their effectiveness must be able to be demonstrated. How might program implementers determine effectiveness and guide efficient use of scarce resources?
Sep 30, 2021
Journal Article
Strengthening and Empowering Delivery of the Covenant: Evaluation of the Strengthening Delivery of the Armed Forces Covenant Programme
This report is an external evaluation of the Strengthening Delivery of the Covenant Programme.
Sep 2, 2021
Journal Article
"What We Have Here, Is a Failure to [Replicate]": Ways to Solve a Replication Crisis in Implementation Science
This article reviews what is known about replication of implementation trials, and identifies the gaps and next steps to continue increasing the transparency, openness, and replicability of implementation research.
Aug 13, 2021
Tool
Getting To Outcomes®: Guide for Strengthening Sexual Assault Prevention Activities in the Military
This Getting To Outcomes guide will help with the planning, implementation, evaluation, continuous quality improvement, and sustainability of military sexual assault prevention activities. It includes instructions, blank tools, and examples.
Aug 11, 2021
Commentary
Commercialisation and Open Science Do Not Have to Be Uneasy Bedfellows
On the surface, tension exists between commercialization and open science approaches to research. But the two approaches are not irreconcilable—they can exist in harmony and complement one another to generate greater impact from investments in research and innovation.
Aug 6, 2021
Journal Article
Level 4 Group Triple P: Positive Parenting Programme
This report evaluates the Positive Parenting Program, targeted at parents of children aged 3 to 4 years for whom nursery staff and caregivers had concerns around language and communication or children's behavioural, emotional, or social development.
Jul 27, 2021
Report
Evaluation of the Military Spouse Employment Partnership Program: Report on the Second Stage of Analysis
In this second-phase study on the Military Spouse Employment Partnership (MSEP) program, the authors analyzed jobs on the MSEP Career Portal in 2016, interviewed participating employers in 2016, and then surveyed and interviewed spouses in 2019.
Jul 21, 2021
Journal Article
Can Novel 'Swift-Certain-Fair' Programs Work Outside of Pioneering Jurisdictions? An Analysis of 24/7 Sobriety in Montana, USA
South Dakota USA's 24/7 Sobriety Program appears to work in Montana as well. Certain delivery of immediate but modest sanctions for repeat driving under the influence (DUI) arrestees who violate alcohol abstinence orders appears to be able to reduce future DUI arrests.
Jul 20, 2021
Journal Article
The Relationship Between Quality of Housing and Quality of Life: Evidence from Permanent Supportive Housing
This study describes a PSH program administered by a Medicaid managed care plan, serving individuals experiencing homelessness with complex medical histories, and outlines participants' perceptions on the relationship between quality of housing and QOL.
Jun 9, 2021
Commentary
Culture, Performance, and Assessment in Research
The unwritten, and often unsaid, concern in the debate about research culture in the UK is an apparent trade-off between excellence in research and a healthy research culture. But the evidence shows that this is a false dichotomy.
May 25, 2021
Tool
Getting To Outcomes® Operations Guide for Air National Guard Community Action Teams
This Getting To Outcomes guide will help with the planning, implementation, evaluation, continuous quality improvement, and sustainability of Air National Guard Community Action Plans. It includes guidance, resources, and examples of completed tools.
May 24, 2021
Report
Developing Metrics and Scoring Procedures to Support Mitigation Grant Program Decisionmaking
To develop metrics that can inform decisionmaking for awarding predisaster mitigation grants, the authors established three lines of effort (LoEs) for analysis. Each LoE produced a metric or framework that could support grant decisionmaking.
Mar 31, 2021
Journal Article
Methodological Challenges and Proposed Solutions for Evaluating Opioid Policy Effectiveness
In this paper, we provide an overview of methodological challenges facing opioid policy researchers when conducting opioid policy evaluation studies using observational data, as well as some potential solutions to those challenges.
Jan 20, 2021
Report
Wellcome Sanger Institute and Wellcome Genome Campus Landscape Review
RAND Europe was commissioned by Wellcome to analyse the role and contribution of the Sanger Institute and the Wellcome Genome Campus within the field of genetics and genomics, set within the context of four comparator organisations.
Jan 19, 2021
Tool
Getting To Outcomes® Operations Guide for U.S. Air Force Community Action Teams: Content Area Module for Air Force Suicide Prevention
This content area module for Air Force suicide prevention is a companion volume to the Getting To Outcomes Operations Guide for U.S. Air Force Community Action Teams. It includes guidance, resources, and examples of completed tools.
Dec 14, 2020
Tool
Getting To Outcomes® Operations Guide for U.S. Air Force Community Action Teams: Content Area Module for Air Force Sexual Harassment Prevention
This content area module for Air Force sexual harassment prevention is a companion volume to the Getting To Outcomes Operations Guide for U.S. Air Force Community Action Teams. It includes guidance, resources, and examples of completed tools.
Dec 14, 2020
Journal Article
Examining Design and Statistical Power for Planning Cluster Randomized Trials Aimed at Improving Student Science Achievement and Science Teacher Outcomes
In this study, we consider strategies to maximize the efficiency of the study design when both student and teacher effects are of primary interest.
Nov 25, 2020
Report
Evaluation of the Ex-Service Personnel in the Criminal Justice System Programme
Narrated presentation describing a RAND Europe project to evaluate the Ex-Service Personnel in the Criminal Justice System Programme, to understand how projects have helped reduce reoffending and provide support to ex-Service personnel.
Oct 28, 2020

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