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What the Next Generation of Policy Researchers Is Studying

On this episode of On the Evidence, we feature six short interviews with the 2019 summer fellows about the research questions they pursued and what they have learned so far.




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10 Ways to Extend the Reach of Your Work

We can’t expect policymakers, program administrators, and practitioners to stumble upon new evidence (let alone slog their way through multiple field-specific academic journals). As an evidence community, we have to do more to show them the way to research-based insights.




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Tips for Boosting the Reach and Impact of Policy Research

On this episode of On the Evidence, economists Jennifer Doleac and Kosali Simon share lessons from their experiences interpreting and translating policy research for media interviews, Twitter, podcasts, and elsewhere.




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Using Leading and Lagging Indicators for Medicaid and CHIP Quality Improvement

Medicaid and CHIP quality improvement often focuses on the big picture, but to be confident that new efforts will lead to improvement, we also need quality measures that can be captured earlier.




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Using Rapid-Cycle Evaluation to Inform Policy Decision Making

This video depicts how a program improvement approach—known as Rapid-Cycle Evaluation—can provide administrators with evidence about what works to improve services.




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Learning in the Midst of a Pandemic: Four Key Education Takeaways

We are living in unprecedented times. To reduce the spread of COVID-19, more than 130 countries have closed schools entirely, impacting 80 percent of the world’s student population.




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Tips to Quickly Switch from Face-to-Face to Home-Based Telephone Interviewing

Across the United States and around the world, in-person survey data collection has been halted to protect against COVID-19 spread; now what?




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Helping States Manage Booming Unemployment Insurance Claims: Lessons from the Great Recession

Congress passed the largest economic stimulus package in our nation’s history, one of several ways Congress is helping America weather the economic downturn caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.




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Shift to At-Home and Online Learning Underscores the Importance of Culturally Responsive Education Practices in Schools

For this episode of On the Evidence, a principal and an education researcher share insights from research and the field on implementing culturally responsive practices.




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Echoes of the Past, Lessons for Today

In echoes of the past lie lessons for today: our country’s confrontation with AIDS can inform our battle against COVID-19.




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COVID-19 Revealed Longstanding Problems in Our Social Safety Net. It’s Time to Address Them.

The unfortunate truth about crises is that they tend to reveal longstanding problems that we chose to ignore—because we could, or at least thought we could.




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Considering Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Era of COVID-19

The guest for this episode of On the Evidence is Ralanda Nelson, the new associate director for diversity at Mathematica.




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Supporting Families to Foster Children’s Safety and Well-Being

For National Child Abuse Prevention Month, Mathematica researcher Debra Strong and Elaine Stedt, the director of the Office on Child Abuse Neglect, share how the Regional Partnership Grant program is improving the safety, permanency, and well-being of children affected by adults’ substance abuse.




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Agency and media reception: experiencing video games, film, and television / Susanne Eichner

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Beyond choices: the design of ethical gameplay / by Miguel Sicart

Barker Library - GV1469.34.C67 S52 2013




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Handbook of digital games / edited by Marios C. Angelides, Harry Agius

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Online gaming and playful organization / Harald Warmelink

Hayden Library - GV1469.15.W37 2014




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Game invaders: the theory and understanding of computer games / Clive Fencott ... [et al.]

Hayden Library - GV1469.3.G365 2012




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The game culture reader / edited by Jason C. Thompson and Marc A. Ouellette

Hayden Library - GV1469.34.S52 G362 2013




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Children's virtual play worlds: culture, learning, and participation / edited by Anne Burke & Jackie Marsh

Hayden Library - GV1469.17.S63 C45 2013




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Early modernity and video games / edited by Tobias Winnerling and Florian Kerschbaumer

Hayden Library - GV1469.3.E27 2014




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Portable play in everyday life: the Nintendo DS / Samuel Tobin

Hayden Library - GV1469.17.S63 T63 2013




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A game design vocabulary: exploring the foundational principles behind good game design / Anna Anthropy, Naomi Clark

Hayden Library - GV1469.34.A97 A58 2014




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Gaming globally: production, play, and place / edited by Nina B. Huntemann and Ben Aslinger

Hayden Library - GV1469.3.G428 2013




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The art of failure: an essay on the pain of playing video games / Jesper Juul

Barker Library - GV1469.3.J87 2013




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Introduction to game analysis / Clara Fernández-Vara

Hayden Library - GV1469.15.F46 2015




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Virtual ascendance: video games and the remaking of reality / Devin C. Griffiths

Hayden Library - GV1469.3.G74 2013




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Understanding Minecraft: essays on play, community and possibilities / edited by Nate Garrelts

Hayden Library - GV1469.35.M535 U73 2014




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What is your quest?: from adventure games to interactive books / Anastasia Salter

Hayden Library - GV1469.34.S52 S336 2014




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Gaming at the edge: sexuality and gender at the margins of gamer culture / Adrienne Shaw

Hayden Library - GV1469.17.S63 S53 2014




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Playing to win: sports, video games, and the culture of play / edited by Robert Alan Brookey and Thomas P. Oates ; [introduction by Thomas P. Oates and Robert Alan Brookey]

Hayden Library - GV1469.17.S63 P53 2015




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Multiplayer: the social aspects of digital gaming / edited by Thorsten Quandt and Sonja Kröger

Dewey Library - GV1469.17.S63 M85 2014




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Game love: essays on play and affection / edited by Jessica Enevold and Esther MacCallum-Stewart

Hayden Library - GV1469.34.P79 G36 2015




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Empathy and violent video games: aggression and prosocial behavior / Christian Happ and André Melzer

Hayden Library - GV1469.34.V56 H367 2014




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Online game pioneers at work: interviews with some of the top online game pioneers of our times / Morgan Ramsay ; foreword by Richard Bartle

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Gameworlds: virtual media and children's everyday play / Seth Giddings

Hayden Library - GV1469.34.S52 G53 2014




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Game play: paratextuality in contemporary board games / Paul Booth

Hayden Library - GV1469.6.B66 2015




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Players and their pets: gaming communities from Beta to Sunset / Mia Consalvo and Jason Begy

Hayden Library - GV1469.34.S52 C66 2015




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Video game narrative and criticism: playing the story / Tamer Thabet

Hayden Library - GV1469.34.P79 T48 2015




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Video games and storytelling: reading games and playing books / Souvik Mukherjee

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Advances in computer games: 14th International Conference, ACG 2015, Leiden, the Netherlands, July 1-3, 2015, Revised selected papers / Aske Plaat, H. Jaap van den Herik, Walter Kosters (eds.)

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Information dynamics in virtual worlds: gaming and beyond / Woody Evans

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War/play: video games and the militarization of society / John Martino

Hayden Library - GV1469.34.S52 M375 2015




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Parables of the posthuman: digital realities, gaming, and the player experience / Johathan Boulter

Hayden Library - GV1469.34 .P79 B68 2015




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MMOs from the inside out: the history, design, fun, and art of massively-multiplayer online role-playing games / Richard A. Bartle

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MMOs from the outside in: the massively-multiplayer online role-playing games of psychology, law, government, and real life / Richard A. Bartle

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Program arcade games: with Python and Pygame / Paul Vincent Craven

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Exploring videogames with Deleuze and Guattari: towards an affective theory of form / by Colin Cremin

Hayden Library - GV1469.34.S52 C74 2015




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Video games and creativity / volume editor, Garo Green, James C. Kaufman

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Video games and creativity / edited by Garo P. Green and James C. Kaufman

Hayden Library - GV1469.34.P79 V53 2015