Measures of Performance and Effectiveness for the Marine Corps' Sexual Assault Prevention Programs
Abstract
The U.S. Marine Corps is interested in evaluating the effectiveness of its sexual assault prevention programs, motivated by a commitment to establishing and incorporating evidence-based practices. The Marine Corps asked RAND's National Defense Research Institute to assist with its efforts and, in particular, to identify and/or develop measures of effectiveness (MOEs) and measures of performance (MOPs) for assessing the Marine Corps' programs. RAND researchers used a logic model framework for conducting the analysis - an approach that will help the Marine Corps map program inputs to desired outcomes and measure changes over time. This report contains the results of RAND's efforts. Specifically, the report presents logic models for the U.S. Marine Corps' sexual assault prevention annual trainings, leadership courses, and social media efforts and identifies MOPs and MOEs for each component of the logic models. Collectively, these measures serve as an item pool from which to select measures for use in future evaluations. As background, we also review current measures being used for evaluation of sexual assault prevention training in the military and civilian arenas and existing data sources available to the Marine Corps that include variables relevant to an evaluation of sexual assault prevention programming. The report concludes with considerations for developing an evaluation of the Marine Corps Sexual Assault Prevention and Response office's prevention programming and recommendations to make best use of the measures.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 01, 2019
- Accession Number
- AD1085860
Entities
People
- Angela Clague
- Barbara Bicksler
- Coreen A. Farris
- Dionne Barnes-proby
- Lisa H. Jaycox
- Margaret Tankard
- Terry L Schell
Organizations
- RAND Corporation