Teachers Are Not All Right: How the COVID-19 Pandemic Is Taking a Toll on the Nation's Teachers January 15, 2021
Findings discuss issues affecting teacher wellbeing during the pandemic, including higher workloads and increased teacher burnout.
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.
2021
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Teachers' Perceptions of What Makes Instructional Materials Engaging, Appropriately Challenging, and Usable: A Survey and Interview Study January 14, 2021
In this report, the authors use survey data from a nationally representative sample to examine how middle and high school English language arts and mathematics teachers use and perceive their instructional materials in terms of their engagement, challenge, and usability. In addition, the authors use interview data to understand teachers' perceptions about what makes instructional materials engaging, appropriately challenging, and usable.
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Analysis of Global Management of Air Force War Reserve Materiel to Support Operations in Contested and Degraded Environments January 14, 2021
Adversaries have developed capabilities that may restrict or deny U.S. forces' access to a given area. Prepositioning select war reserve materiel (WRM) may help mitigate vulnerabilities associated with operating in a contested, degraded, or operationally limited environment. In this report, RAND researchers evaluate management approaches and global prepositioning strategies for WRM postures in such environments.
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Modeling Rapidly Composable, Heterogeneous, and Fractionated Forces: Findings on Mosaic Warfare from an Agent-Based Model January 5, 2021
Mosaic warfare is named for the idea of creating a complex image from small pieces. This report studies Mosaic warfare and explores three dimensions of variability: (1) fractionation of capabilities from large multicapability platforms onto multiple smaller ones; (2) employment of heterogenous mixes of capabilities throughout a battlespace; and (3) rapid composition of a set of needed capabilities in a time and place to accomplish a mission.
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Findings on Mosaic Warfare from a Colonel Blotto Game January 5, 2021
To reduce cost of conflict and increase effectiveness and robustness, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is considering a warfighting construct known as Mosaic warfare, after the analogy of creating a complex image from many small, simple pieces. For this report, researchers studied potential benefits and trade-offs of Mosaic warfare using a competitive resource allocation problem known as a Colonel Blotto game.
2020
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Rapid Mixed-Methods Assessment of COVID-19 Impact on Latinx Sexual Minority Men and Latinx Transgender Women January 8, 2021
A rapid, mixed-methods assessment to understand how COVID-19 affected Latinx sexual minority men (LSMM) and transgender women (LTGW).
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Longitudinal Assessment of Changes in Mental and Sexual Health Outcomes Due to COVID-19 Among Latinx SMM and TGW January 8, 2021
This study provides longitudinal information on how COVID-19 is impacting the mental and sexual health of Latinx SMM and TGW across Los Angeles County.
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Nature and Predictors of Response Changes in Modified-Delphi Panels January 7, 2021
This article describes the extent and direction of response changes between modified-Delphi rounds and identifies factors that affect participants' response changes.
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From "Informed" to "Engaged" Consent: Risks and Obligations in Consent for Participation in a Health Data Repository January 7, 2021
This paper focuses on research stakeholders' views of a model of consent appropriate to biobanking and research infrastructure initiatives like the AoURP and Project Baseline that entail long-term storage and undetermined future research use of multiple types of health data.
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Clinical Interventions for Adults with Comorbid Alcohol Use and Depressive Disorders: A Systematic Review and Network Meta-Analysis December 30, 2020
The authors synthesize evidence on the effects and compare the effectiveness of clinical interventions for improving symptoms of adults with co-occurring alcohol use and depressive disorders. The review aims to support clinical decisionmaking regarding which interventions to use with patients dually diagnosed with co-occurring alcohol use and depressive disorders.
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Russia's Cyber Limitations in Personnel Recruitment and Innovation, Their Potential Impact on Future Operations and How NATO and Its Members Can Respond December 23, 2020
This chapter addresses questions arising from the gap that separates Russian cyber personnel and capabilities from its ambitions and what effect this disparity has on future state-backed cyber campaigns.
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Remote Learning Is Here to Stay: Results from the First American School District Panel Survey December 15, 2020
The RAND Corporation fielded a survey to the new American School District Panel to develop a national picture of school districts' needs during the COVID-19 pandemic and innovations that they plan to keep after the pandemic. The authors of this report examine plans that districts have put into place, needs and challenges related to student learning, and influences on plans for the 2020–2021 school year.
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Preparing Children and Youth for Civic Life in the Era of Truth Decay: Insights from the American Teacher Panel December 8, 2020
Nationally representative survey results demonstrate how social studies teachers in U.S. public schools promote students' civic learning, teachers' beliefs about the importance of civic-related topics and skills, and which conditions they perceive as supporting or hindering civic education. This report, which is part of the Truth Decay initiative, extends analyses presented in other reports in the series.
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Will This School Year Be Another Casualty of the Pandemic? Key Findings from the American Educator Panels Fall 2020 COVID-19 Surveys November 16, 2020
School districts across the United States have had to make many difficult decisions to prepare for the 2020–2021 school year amid the ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic. In this Data Note, researchers summarize selected findings on teaching and learning in the face of a pandemic by drawing on surveys administered via the RAND American Educator Panels to nationally representative samples of teachers and principals in early October 2020.
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Exploring Coherence in English Language Arts Instructional Systems in the Common Core Era November 4, 2020
Coherence among instructional components is key to changing teachers' practices in standards-based reforms. The authors set out to understand how districts and schools are activating various policy levers to drive instructional coherence and student learning in English language arts. This report uses survey data to explore the coherence of school-level instructional systems in Louisiana, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island.
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How Can Green Infrastructure Help to Manage Rainfall in an Urban Watershed? October 29, 2020
This brief describes a proposed system of green stormwater infrastructure (GSI) in Pittsburgh's Negley Run watershed, evaluates its potential benefits and costs, and presents recommendations to improve urban stormwater management.
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Safe Enough: Approaches to Assessing Acceptable Safety for Automated Vehicles October 29, 2020
Establishing whether automated vehicles (AVs) are acceptably safe is not straightforward, and continual technology modification adds complication. RAND researchers analyzed three approaches to assessing safety—measurements, processes, and thresholds—and noted the different kinds of evidence associated with each. This report also describes the challenges and options related to communicating about AV safety, especially to the general public.
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Managing Heavy Rainfall with Green Infrastructure: An Evaluation in Pittsburgh's Negley Run Watershed October 26, 2020
Urban stormwater management is a growing challenge in many U.S. cities, and climate change is expected to add to this challenge. RAND researchers apply simulation modeling and economic valuation to estimate the potential benefits and costs of a green stormwater infrastructure (GSI) system in Pittsburgh's Negley Run watershed. The authors evaluate a series of GSI investments and make recommendations for how local actors should proceed.
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From Consensus to Conflict: Understanding Foreign Measures Targeting U.S. Elections October 1, 2020
Russia might try to manipulate and divide U.S. voters via social media during the U.S. political campaign season of 2020. RAND researchers sought to analyze, forecast, and mitigate threats by foreign actors targeting local, state, and national elections. This report, the first of four in a series, reviews some of the research on information efforts by foreign actors, focusing mainly on Russia and online environments.
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Beyond Recovery: Transforming Puerto Rico's Water Sector in the Wake of Hurricanes Irma and Maria September 30, 2020
The 2017 hurricanes damaged Puerto Rico's water infrastructure and its water resources. This damage was attributed to existing vulnerability of infrastructure, direct hurricane damage, and indirect disruption stemming from damage in other sectors. The water sector recovery plan involves not only repairing hurricane-damaged structures and systems but also fixing the many legacy challenges in the water sector's operations and governance.