The Future of Warfare Boxed Set August 26, 2020
This series of reports examines the key geopolitical, economic, environmental, geographic, legal, informational, and military trends that will shape the contours of conflict between now and 2030.
Student-Authored Publications
Pardee RAND Graduate School students participate in many RAND research projects through their On-the-Job Training. These projects provide students with tremendous opportunities to publish their work in RAND reports and peer-reviewed journals. In fact, many of our students develop an impressive publications record during their tenure at Pardee RAND, which enables them to compete successfully for positions at universities and other research institutions.
Below is a list of publications that our students have recently authored or co-authored. The list provides an excellent illustration of the range of publications that our students have had a hand in developing.
2020
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Social Studies Teachers' Trust in Institutions and Groups: Civic Development in the Era of Truth Decay August 24, 2020
Teachers' trust in institutions can influence their ability to counter Truth Decay—the diminishing role of facts and analysis in American public life—in public school classrooms. This Data Note, one in a series, describes survey responses from social studies teachers about their trust in such institutions as the government and media and their willingness to accept recommendations or information from such groups as scholars and medical doctors.
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Determining Staffing Needs for Administrative, Professional, and Technical Workers in the U.S. Secret Service: A User Guide for Workforce Staffing Models August 18, 2020
Researchers created a software tool to help determine staffing needs in the U.S. Secret Service's highest-priority administrative, professional, and technical functions. This user guide describes the tool, which consists of Visio process mapping and Excel spreadsheet calculations; documents its features; and provides detailed instructions for completing procedures using the tool.
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Practice Expense Methodology and Data Collection Research and Analysis: Interim Phase II Report August 4, 2020
Key data used to set practice expense (PE) payment rates under the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule have not been updated since 2008, though the U.S. economy and health care system have changed since then. There are concerns that continued reliance on these data might result in misvalued PE rates. In this report, the authors address how the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services can improve the methodology or update data used to set PE rates.
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A Two-Generation Learning Program Educates and Empowers Parents and Children: An Assessment of Families Forward Learning Center in Pasadena, California August 3, 2020
This brief summarizes how participants in the Families Forward Learning Center (FFLC)'s two-generation learning program perceive its benefits, and also compares FFLC children's educational outcomes through third grade with their peers' results.
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Evaluation of Families Forward Learning Center: Participant Perspectives and Student Outcomes August 3, 2020
The Families Forward Learning Center offers a two-generation learning program for low-income families with children from birth to 5 years old in Pasadena, California. This report summarizes a mixed-methods evaluation of the program that used retrospective interviews with former participants to elicit their perceptions of the program as well as analyses of student kindergarten and third-grade educational outcomes.
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Social Studies Teachers' Perspectives on Key Civic Outcomes in 2010 and 2019: Civic Development in the Era of Truth Decay August 3, 2020
Teachers play a crucial role in supporting students' civic development, which is one way of countering Truth Decay—the diminishing role of facts and analysis in American public life. This Data Note, one in a series, describes changes in high school social studies teachers' perspectives regarding the importance of teaching various topics related to students' civic development and regarding the role of social studies instruction more generally.
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Strengthening Privacy Protections in COVID-19 Mobile Phone–Enhanced Surveillance Programs July 30, 2020
This report examines the privacy implications of the use of mobile phone surveillance programs for pandemics.
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Data Privacy During Pandemics: A Scorecard Approach for Evaluating the Privacy Implications of COVID-19 Mobile Phone Surveillance Programs July 30, 2020
As part of the response to the COVID-19 pandemic, governments worldwide have deployed mobile phone surveillance programs to augment public health interventions. However, these programs raise privacy concerns. The authors of this report examine whether two goals can be achieved concurrently: the use of mobile phones as public health surveillance tools to help manage COVID 19 and future crises, and the protection of privacy and civil liberties.
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Which Parents Need the Most Support While K–12 Schools and Child Care Centers Are Physically Closed? July 27, 2020
The coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic has been challenging for parents as schools and child care centers closed or switched to distance learning. Researchers examine which parents need the most support. Parents with children in different age groups and those with more financial difficulty appear to need more support than those whose children are closer in age and who are not struggling financially.
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Improving Acquisition to Support the Space Enterprise Vision July 15, 2020
The Space Enterprise Vision (SEV) describes an integrated approach to building a force across space mission areas. Achieving this vision requires reducing acquisition time lines and improving integration of the space enterprise. The research team examined potential acquisition approaches to support SEV and identified several promising ones that merit in-depth examination: modular open system architectures, agile acquisition, rapid prototyping.
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Teachers' Civics Instructional Materials: Civic Development in the Era of Truth Decay July 13, 2020
Public schools that serve kindergarteners through 12th graders can play a key role in combating Truth Decay by supporting students' civic development and engagement. Teachers' instructional materials provide one window into civic education in schools. This Data Note unpacks ways in which social studies teachers across the United States reported using instructional materials in their classrooms to teach civics.
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Investing in the Future of Health Care: A Strategic Assessment of Federally Funded Health Services Research and Primary Care Research July 7, 2020
Health services research and primary care research portfolios funded by agencies have distinct focus areas, and most overlap is complementary, but there are gaps in research, driven by the complexity and pace of change in the U.S. health system.
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How Can Assistant Principals Be Trained as Instructional Leaders? Insights from the PLUS Program July 7, 2020
This research brief summarizes study findings of a school leadership program and offers three recommendations for school districts and school leadership training programs to consider as they strive to improve instructional leadership effectiveness.
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Pathways to Instructional Leadership: Implementation and Outcomes from a Job-Embedded School Leader Training Program July 7, 2020
The authors present findings about implementation and impacts on staff and student outcomes from a four-year study of the Pathway to Leadership in Urban Schools program in a large, urban public school district. The findings highlight participants' perceptions of programs that focus on training assistant principals in instructional leadership and the impact that such a program can have on student and staff outcomes.
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Limb Salvage and Recovery After Severe Blast Injury: Literature Review for the Eighth Department of Defense International State-of-the-Science Meeting on Blast Injury Research July 6, 2020
Battlefield medical advances, improvements in protective equipment, and progress in surgical reconstruction and rehabilitation have led to questions about when to emphasize limb salvage over other treatment options—such as amputation—for individuals with severe blast-related limb injuries. This literature review summarizes recent research on limb salvage and recovery after severe blast-related injury.
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Building Community Resilience to Large Oil Spills: Findings and Recommendations from a Synthesis of Research on the Mental Health, Economic, and Community Distress Associated with the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill July 6, 2020
The 2010 Deepwater Horizon (DWH) oil spill was the largest in U.S. history, releasing an estimated 4.9 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. In this report, the authors explore how communities, government officials, nongovernmental organizations, businesses, and scientists can build community resilience to large oil spills.
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How Can the United States Prepare a Workforce for Advanced Manufacturing Using Robotics? July 6, 2020
As industrial robots become more advanced, there likely will be a shortage of technicians with the skills to work with, program, and repair them. This brief presents findings of RAND researchers' analysis of the state of training for these workers.
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An Analysis of Education and Training Programs in Advanced Manufacturing Using Robotics July 6, 2020
As industrial robots grow more sophisticated, there likely will be a shortage of human workers with the necessary technical and nontechnical skills to work with, program, and repair their machine counterparts. In this report, researchers assess the state and future of education and training for technicians who work in advanced manufacturing using robotics, with a special focus on the U.S. Midwest region and the adjoining state of Pennsylvania.
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Local Government Reform and the Socioeconomic Gap in Israel: Building Toward a New Future July 2, 2020
This report describes key aspects of Israeli municipalities and explores (1) the adoption of a regional approach to address the fragmented nature of municipal governance, (2) the training and placement of personnel in managerial municipal positions, and (3) the improvement of education services—with a view toward strengthening the effectiveness and efficiency of local government in Israel for municipalities to be more-active agents for change.