Similar to other countries, the U.S. has had a long running shortage of nurses. While the nursing shortage existed long before the COVID-19 pandemic, this crisis highlights the critical need for nurses in a healthcare system that is strained. In this white paper we offer recommendations and considerations for when ...
Thomas de Hoop directs a research and evaluation portfolio with a focus on the impact, scalability, and cost-effectiveness of self-help groups, savings groups, and education innovations in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa.
Project Hostile Intent (PHI) sought to enhance border security and counter-terrorist operations by developing the capability to remotely detect and identify potentially hostile intent from operable distances. AIR’s work on PHI involved basic research, statistical modeling, and evaluation related to high-stakes deception. AIR implemented experimental operationally based studies to support ...
Aviation industry professionals, including airline dispatchers and pilots, rely upon information management systems, tools, and equipment to perform their daily job duties.
A national evaluation of 10 CMS demonstration grants designed to improve the recruitment and retention of the direct service workforce (DSWs) who provide home- and community-based services to the elderly and people with disabilities found confirmation of high turnover and difficulty in hiring primarily due to low pay relative to ...
Because the development of skill-based coordination training is dependent on the accurate identification of crucial behaviors to be trained, and because there is a need to develop more effective methods to identify these skills, the purpose of this investigation was to identify a psychometrically sound index of team task importance ...
In this article, we examine situation awareness (SA) on two levels. First, we briefly summarize some elements that are common to several of the proposed explanations of individual SA in order to provide a base for examining team SA. Second, we identify critical variables that are associated with team SA and ...
To respond to the growing need to understand this concept better, this chapter focuses on several aspects of situation awareness. The operationalization and the appropriate measurement of the construct has implications for the establishment of sound experimental methodologies to identify the critical components of situation awareness, determine its relationship with ...
Marlous de Milliano is a senior economist at AIR with extensive experience in international development research conducting quantitative and mixed-methods research. She has conducted research on a range of topics including social protection, child well-being, women’s well-being and empowerment, and program evaluation in low- and middle-income countries. Dr. de Milliano ...