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Strategic Planning Tools for the Army Senior Reserve Officers' Training Corps Program
The Army must monitor Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) units to ensure that it attracts and commissions highly-qualified officers. Two new strategic planning tools can help the Army to evaluate and choose ROTC hosts and affiliates.
May 2, 2017
Commentary
Why We Need to Experiment with Grant Peer Review
More than 95 per cent of academic biomedical research funding is controlled by peer review of grant applications. It is generally cited as the gold standard for awarding funding, but it appears most effective when used conservatively.
Apr 4, 2017
Report
Assessing and Evaluating Department of Defense Efforts to Inform, Influence, and Persuade: Worked Example
This report presents a realistic but fictional scenario as context for how assessment planning for inform, influence, and persuade efforts should work in practice, demonstrating core principles and best practices for developing effective assessments.
Mar 22, 2017
Journal Article
The Effect of Increasing the Supply of Skilled Health Providers on Pregnancy and Birth Outcomes: Evidence from the Midwives Service Scheme in Nigeria
This study highlights the complexity of improving maternal and child health outcomes in developing countries, and shows that scaling up supply of midwives may not be sufficient on its own.
Mar 15, 2017
Tool
How to Evaluate Countering Violent Extremism Programs
The RAND Program Evaluation Toolkit for Countering Violent Extremism can help program staff overcome common challenges to evaluating and planning improvements to their programs.
Mar 13, 2017
Report
Development of the Program Evaluation Toolkit for Countering Violent Extremism
Countering violent extremism (CVE) requires reducing the underlying factors that give rise to radicalization and recruitment. Using evaluations of past programs, researchers created a toolkit for CVE program administrators to use to measure their effectiveness.
Mar 13, 2017
Commentary
UK Prisons Are in 'Crisis,' So What Can Be Done to Improve Performance?
Prisons in the UK are experiencing record numbers of suicides and other violent incidents, as well as staff shortages. Policymakers working on prison reform need more effective ways to measure the performance of prison programs.
Feb 20, 2017
Report
Assessing the Value of Structured Analytic Techniques in the U.S. Intelligence Community
This report argues for more systematic assessment of the structured analytic techniques employed by the Intelligence Community and provides a pilot study illustrating how they could be evaluated.
Jan 9, 2017
Commentary
Reform of 'Stop and Search' Requires Effective Communication
The UK's Home Office commissioned the development of a new training package and standard of practice for the use of stop and search. As the program is rolled out nationally, officers need to receive consistent and persuasive messages about the purpose and goals of the training.
Oct 27, 2016
Report
College of Policing Stop and Search Training Experiment: Process Evaluation
This report presents findings from the process evaluation of the College of Policing's Stop and Search Training Pilot, produced by RAND Europe, in partnership with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the University of Oxford.
Oct 27, 2016
Report
Developing an Assessment, Monitoring, and Evaluation Framework for U.S. Department of Defense Security Cooperation
This report explores the creation of a U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) system for security cooperation assessment, monitoring, and evaluation (AME) by analyzing existing AME practices inside and outside DoD and proposing an implementation framework.
Oct 6, 2016
Project
Evaluations of Programmes, Processes, and Impact Aim for Better Performance
RAND Europe's expert capabilities include conducting evaluation for better performance, to help decision- and policymakers improve the analysis underlying their choices.
Oct 4, 2016
Journal Article
Evaluation Capacity Building in the Context of Military Psychological Health: Utilizing Preskill and Boyle's Multidisciplinary Model
As part of a military post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) treatment program evaluation, a multidisciplinary model of evaluation capacity building was utilized and assessed.
Sep 20, 2016
News Release
Mass Marketing Fraud Costing Each UK Victim Nearly £7,000 on Average During Their Lifetime
Mass marketing fraud affects all members of society, regardless of their age, class, occupation, socio-economic background, race, or gender. Victims lose £6,744, on average, during their lifetime.
Sep 1, 2016
Report
Scams Team Helps Tackle Mass Marketing Fraud
Mass marketing fraud affects all members of society, regardless of their age, class, occupation, socio-economic background, race, or gender. The National Trading Standards Scams Team is helping to reduce the impact of mass marketing fraud on consumers in England and Wales.
Aug 2, 2016
Report
Developing a Risk Assessment Methodology for NASA
A decision support methodology integrates risk factors and risk management approaches tailored to NASA's management, operations, and acquisition structures. Designed for non-experts, any decisionmaker with any level of training can use it to compare risks within a common lens.
Jun 29, 2016
Report
SMART Security Cooperation Objectives: Improving DoD Planning and Guidance
Evaluates the U.S. Department of Defense's effectiveness in developing SMART (specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and results-oriented, and time-bound) security cooperation objectives that facilitate assessment, monitoring, and evaluation.
May 5, 2016
Report
Evaluation of EPIM III: 2012-2015
The European Programme for Integration and Migration provides funding to strengthen civil society organisations to advocate for constructive approaches to migration. In 2012 EPIM asked RAND to undertake an evaluation of their third funding round.
Apr 6, 2016
Journal Article
Can Broad Inferences Be Drawn from Lottery Analyses of School Choice Programs? An Exploration of Appropriate Sensitivity Analyses
Researchers can use sensitivity analyses to evaluate whether they, or stakeholders, should be careful in extending their findings on school choice programs to populations or locations beyond those studied.
Apr 1, 2016
Commentary
Does Intervention or Investment Innovate? Social Impact Bonds at the Close of the Peterborough Prison Pilot
There is limited evidence to support the assumption that social impact bonds offer a particularly effective way to spur innovation in service provision and will only have beneficial effects.
Jan 25, 2016

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Brian A. Jackson

Senior Physical Scientist

Brian A. Jackson is a senior physical scientist at the RAND Corporation. His research focuses on homeland security, criminal justice, and emergency preparedness. His areas of research have included the evaluation of technology and policy in criminal justice, measurement of emergency…
Stephani L. Wrabel

Policy Researcher

Stephani L. Wrabel (she/her) is a policy researcher at the RAND Corporation. She researches K-12 education and defense policies, programs, and practices intended to improve the lives of young persons, families, and servicemembers. Wrabel has particular expertise in standards-based accountability…

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