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View article: Enhancing cancer care through digital social care referrals: insights from the ConnectedNest pilot study
Enhancing cancer care through digital social care referrals: insights from the ConnectedNest pilot study Open
Purpose Over 8 million patients experiencing cancer face health-related social needs (HRSN) challenges, such as food, housing, and financial insecurity, that directly impact their health outcomes. While patients may participate in the scre…
View article: Reckoning With Race and Gender in Public Administration and Public Policy: A Substantive Social Equity Turn
Reckoning With Race and Gender in Public Administration and Public Policy: A Substantive Social Equity Turn Open
Promoting race‐aware and gender‐aware scholarship is essential for giving substance to social equity research. This review and introduction provides an account of one such initiative to promote race and gender scholarship through collabora…
View article: Beyond social equity: Talking social justice in public administration
Beyond social equity: Talking social justice in public administration Open
Social equity scholarship has had a prominent place in public administration and in the pages of Public Administration Review (PAR) since 1974 when George Frederickson edited a PAR symposium on social equity. More recently, PAR has publish…
View article: Building an evidence engine to promote more responsive government
Building an evidence engine to promote more responsive government Open
Public agencies require timely and reliable evidence to adapt operations and strategies quickly to effectively tackle unanticipated challenges in service to the American people. Federal agencies are generally not well equipped to take full…
View article: From noise to knowledge: Improving evidentiary standards for program efficacy to better inform public policy and management decisions
From noise to knowledge: Improving evidentiary standards for program efficacy to better inform public policy and management decisions Open
Current approaches employed by U.S.‐based clearinghouses to rate the efficacy of interventions to address social problems typically do not result in sufficient information to help practitioners. Current standards of evidence employed acros…
View article: Reckoning With Race and Gender in Public Administration and Public Policy: A Substantive Social Equity Turn
Reckoning With Race and Gender in Public Administration and Public Policy: A Substantive Social Equity Turn Open
Promoting race‐aware and gender‐aware scholarship is essential for giving substance to social equity research. This review and introduction provides an account of one such initiative to promote race and gender scholarship through collabora…
View article: Learning agendas: Motivation, engagement, and potential
Learning agendas: Motivation, engagement, and potential Open
In 2017, the U.S. Commission on Evidence‐Based Policymaking recommended that federal agencies produce strategic plans focused on research and evaluation, referred to as learning agendas. This requirement was later incorporated into the Fou…
View article: Accountability and Trust in Government: What’s Next?
Accountability and Trust in Government: What’s Next? Open
During the last four years the need for trustworthy leaders who possess both integrity and courage toaddress societal needs and inequities in the U.S. was highlighted, as has been the need for a trust-worthy government. A global pandemic a…
View article: Advancing Evaluation Practice With Serious Games
Advancing Evaluation Practice With Serious Games Open
Evaluation professionals need to be nimble and innovative in their approaches in order to be relevant and provide useful evidence to decision-makers, stakeholders, and society in the crowded public policy landscape. In this article, we off…
View article: Promoting STEM Teacher Reflection through Self-Evaluation
Promoting STEM Teacher Reflection through Self-Evaluation Open
Evaluators face serious challenges assessing the impact of teaching practice on student outcomes, such as for assessing the impact of grant-funded teacher training programs. To overcome these barriers, the evaluators of an NSF-funded teach…