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      Measuring Literacy: Performance Levels for Adults

      Committee on Performance Levels for Adult Literacy

      The National Assessment of Adult Literacy is a household survey that evaluates the literacy skills of a sample of adults in the United Stages ages 16 and older. Through a…

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      Uncommon Measures: Equivalence and Linkage Among Educational Tests

      Presents a picture of the diversity of state testing programs. This book also looks at the characteristics of the National Assessment of Educational Progress. It provides an answer to the…

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      Measuring Human Capabilities: An Agenda for Basic Research on the Assessment of Individual and Group Performance Potential for Military Accession

      National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences,Committee on Measuring Human Capabilities: Performance Potential of Individuals and Collectives

      Every year, the U.S. Army must select from an applicant pool in the hundreds of thousands to meet annual enlistment targets, currently numbering in the tens of thousands of new…

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      Testing of Body Armor Materials: Phase III

      Committee on Testing of Body Armor Materials for Use by the U.S. Army--Phase III,Board on Army Science and Technology,Committee on National Statistics,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences

      In 2009, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released the report Warfighter Support: Independent Expert Assessment of Army Body Armor Test Results and Procedures Needed Before Fielding, which commented on the…

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      Industrial Methods for the Effective Development and Testing of Defense Systems

      Panel on Industrial Methods for the Effective Test and Development of Defense Systems,National Research Council

      Over the past decade and a half, the National Research Council, through its Committee on National Statistics, has carried out a number of studies on the application of statistical methods…

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      Evaluation of the Voluntary National Tests, Year 2: Final Report

      National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Board on Testing and Assessment,Committee on the Evaluation of the Voluntary National Tests, Year 2

      In his 1997 State of the Union address, President Clinton announced a federal initiative to develop tests of 4th-grade reading and 8th-grade mathematics that could be administered on a voluntary…

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      Characterizing Risk in Climate Change Assessments: Proceedings of a Workshop

      National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Board on Environmental Change and Society

      The U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) was established in 1990 to assist the Nation and the world to understand, assess, predict, and respond to human-induced and natural processes of…

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      Assessment of Approaches to Updating the Social Cost of Carbon: Phase 1 Report on a Near-Term Update

      National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Board on Environmental Change and Society,Committee on Assessing Approaches to Updating the Social Cost of Carbon

      The social cost of carbon (SCC) for a given year is an estimate, in dollars, of the present discounted value of the damage caused by a 1-metric ton increase in…

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      Grading the Nation’s Report Card: Research from the Evaluation of NAEP

      The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), known as the nation’s report card, chronicles students’ academic achievement in America. This volume considers the use and application of NAEP, and contains…

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      Review of the Draft Fourth National Climate Assessment

      National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Board on Environmental Change and Society,Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate

      The National Climate Assessment, coordinated by the U.S. Global Change Research Program, is a mandated report intended to inform response decisions. These reports are developed every four years.

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      Review of the Draft Fifth National Climate Assessment

      National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Division on Earth and Life Studies, Board on Environmental Change and Society, Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, Committee to Review the Draft Fifth National Climate Assessment

      Roughly every four years, the U.S. Global Change Research Program produces a congressionally mandated assessment of global change science and the impacts, adaptation, and mitigation of climate change in the…

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      An Assessment of the Need for Native Seeds and the Capacity for Their Supply: Interim Report

      National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Committee on National Statistics,Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources

      Across the United States, millions of acres of land have been so disturbed by human activities or severe climate events that significant portions of their native plant communities have been…

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      An Assessment of Native Seed Needs and the Capacity for Their Supply

      National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Division on Earth and Life Studies, Committee on National Statistics, Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources, Committee on an Assessment of Native Seed Needs and Capacities

      Extreme weather and wildfires, intensified by climate change, are damaging the native plant communities of landscapes across the United States. Native plant communities are foundational to thriving ecosystems, delivering goods…

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      Protecting Individual Privacy in the Struggle Against Terrorists: A Framework for Program Assessment

      Committee on Technical and Privacy Dimensions of Information for Terrorism Prevention and Other National Goals,National Research Council

      The US agencies with counterterrorism programs that collect personal data should be required to evaluate the programs’ effectiveness, lawfulness, and impacts on privacy. This book urges Congress to examine the…

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      National Children’s Study 2014: An Assessment

      Panel on the Design of the National Children's Study and Implications for the Generalizability of Results,Committee on National Statistics,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Board on Children, Youth, and Families,Institute of Medicine

      The National Children’s Study (NCS) was authorized by the Children’s Health Act of 2000 and is being implemented by a dedicated Program Office in the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute…

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      Allocating Federal Funds for State Programs for English Language Learners

      Panel to Review Alternative Data Sources for the Limited-English Proficiency Allocation Formula Under Title III, Part A, Elementary and Secondary Education Act,National Research Council

      As the United States continues to be a nation of immigrants and their children, the nation’s school systems face increased enrollments of students whose primary language is not English. With…

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