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Survey Research Methodology

Surveys—from in-person to web-based, and discrete choice to stated preference—are an important means of collecting sociological, statistical, and demographic data. RAND has pioneered the use of surveys in several fields, including the development of the Delphi method of opinion gathering, and examined the statistical accuracy of various survey formats and web-based surveys.

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RAND American School District Panel: Creation and Technical Description

This report describes the American School District Panel (ASDP) sample design, methods used to recruit districts, recruitment results, and methods used to weight ASDP data to the national population of public school districts in the United States.

Aug 4, 2022
Report

Technical Documentation for the Fifth American School District Panel Survey

This report provides technical information about the spring 2022 survey of the American School District Panel. The authors describe the survey administration and weighting processes they used to produce nationally representative estimates.

Jul 12, 2022
News Release

Teacher and Principal Stress Running at Twice the Rate of General Working Public, Hindering Pandemic Recovery

U.S. teachers and principals are experiencing frequent job-related stress at a rate about twice that of the general population of working adults. Well-being is reported as especially poor among Hispanic/Latinx teachers, mid-career teachers, and female teachers and principals.

Jun 15, 2022
Report

State of the American Teacher and State of the American Principal Surveys: 2022 Technical Documentation and Survey Results

This technical report on the 2022 State of the American Teacher and State of the American Principal surveys includes descriptions of the survey content, administration, and weighting and detailed data tables of the survey results.

Jun 15, 2022
Report

How Do Americans View Diplomacy and Diplomats?

A survey asked Americans what they think about diplomacy, the U.S. Foreign Service, and other officials who represent the nation abroad. Impressions were generally favorable, but some lacked understanding of what diplomats do, how they are selected, and the role of diplomacy in national security.

Jun 8, 2022
Report

Assessing the Association Between Airmen Participation in Force Support Squadron Programs and Unit Cohesion: An Evaluation of the UNITE Initiative

The UNITE Initiative aims to promote readiness and resilience in the Air Force through events that focus on unit cohesion. The authors describe the results of their evaluation of UNITE and the program's association with unit cohesion.

May 20, 2022
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Assessing the Association Between Airmen Participation in Force Support Squadron Programs and Unit Cohesion: Executive Summary

This executive summary encapsulates the findings in Assessing the Association Between Airmen Participation in Force Support Squadron Programs and Unit Cohesion: An Evaluation of the UNITE Initiative (RR-A554-1) 2022.

May 20, 2022
Report

How Reasoning and Cognitive Biases Affect the Ability to Resist Truth Decay

Truth Decay is the diminishing role of facts in American public life. What role do human reasoning processes and cognitive biases play in this phenomenon? And how can these factors affect an individual's resistance or susceptibility to Truth Decay?

Mar 29, 2022
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Readiness to Implement Evidence-Based Practices in Public Elementary Schools: Findings from a National Survey of Teachers

Using survey data from a nationally representative panel of 1,065 public elementary school teachers, the authors of this report examined teachers' perspectives on their readiness to implement evidence-based practices at their schools.

Mar 23, 2022
Journal Article

Validity Evidence Supporting Use of Anchoring Vignettes to Measure Teaching Practice

This paper addresses two potential drawbacks of survey self-report measures: variation in teachers' interpretation of response scales and their interpretation of survey questions.

Feb 8, 2022
Report

Technical Documentation for the Fourth American School District Panel Survey

This report provides technical information about the November 2021 survey of the American School District Panel. The authors describe districts' characteristics and the weighting process that was used to produce nationally representative estimates.

Feb 8, 2022
Journal Article

Adjusting for Patient Characteristics to Compare Quality of Care Provided by Serious Illness Programs

To ensure fair comparison of serious illness programs, quality measure scores should be case-mix adjusted for variables that influence patients' reports about care quality, but are not under the control of the program administering care.

Feb 4, 2022
Journal Article

CPS Nonresponse During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Explanations, Extent, and Effects

This paper examines survey nonresponse in the CPS at the start of the pandemic and estimates to what extent nonresponse led to an underestimate of the unemployment rate.

Dec 21, 2021
Journal Article

Crosswalking the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System Physical Function, Pain Interference, and Pain Intensity Scores to the Roland-Morris Disability Questionnaire and the Oswestry Disability Index

Using data from three large samples of adults with chronic low back pain, we examined associations of the three PROMIS scores with the Oswestry Disability Index and the Roland-Morris Disability Questionnaire.

Nov 19, 2021
Journal Article

Support for the Reliability and Validity of the National Institutes of Health Impact Stratification Score in a Sample of Active-Duty U.S. Military Personnel with Low Back Pain

This study provides support for the reliability and validity of the Impact Stratification Score as a patient-reported summary measure for acute, subacute, and chronic low back pain.

Nov 19, 2021
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Serious Illness Survey for Home-Based Programs

RAND Corporation researchers developed and field-tested a survey to assess the experiences of individuals who receive care from programs that provide serious illness care to patients in their homes.

Nov 2, 2021
Tool

Serious Illness Survey for Home-Based Programs: Spanish-Language Version

RAND Corporation researchers developed and field-tested a survey to assess the experiences of individuals who receive care from programs that provide serious illness care to patients in their homes. This is the Spanish version of the survey tool.

Nov 2, 2021
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Learn Together Surveys: 2021 Technical Documentation and Survey Results

This report provides information about the sample, survey instrument, and results data for the 2021 Learn Together Surveys that were administered to secondary principals and teachers in March 2021 via the RAND Corporation's American Educator Panels.

Nov 2, 2021
Report

How Do Teachers Identify Supports for Struggling Students?

A survey of 6th- to 12th-grade teachers found that to determine academic needs they rely most often on information gathered from personal interactions with students and from students' performance. And more than half of them look to school and district colleagues first to learn about available interventions.

Nov 2, 2021
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Practice Expense Data Collection and Methodology: Phase II Final Report

In this report, the authors address how the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services might improve the methodology used in practice expense (PE) rate-setting, update data that inform PE rates, or both.

Nov 1, 2021

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