Assessing Impact to Inform Decisions: A Toolkit on Measures for Policymakers

Abstract

Well-designed measures are essential for informing plans, decisions, assessments, and communications with key stakeholders. This toolkit provides a very brief overview of how to identify concepts that should be measured, how to evaluate measures, and how to identify new measures that can contribute to better-informed decisions, plans, and assessments. It is based on the content presented in a series of instructional, interactive workshops that RAND conducted for the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy in 2016 and 2017. This content was derived from a series of prior RAND reports, as discussed in the body of the document.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 13, 2018
Accession Number
AD1059855

Entities

People

  • Miriam Matthews
  • Sarah Weilant
  • Scott Savitz

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

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Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Coast Guard
  • Data Sets
  • Department Of Defense
  • Group Dynamics
  • High Reliability
  • Injury Prevention
  • Intellectual Property
  • Law
  • Leadership
  • National Security
  • Public Health
  • Security
  • Social Psychology
  • Students
  • Terrorism
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Unified Combatant Commands

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  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Instructional Design and Training Evaluation.
  • Systems Analysis and Design