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    Research on Sentencing: The Search for Reform

    Panel on Sentencing Research,Committee on Research on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice,Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,National Research Council

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    Enhancing Human Performance: Issues, Theories, and Techniques

    National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on Techniques for the Enhancement of Human Performance

    Reviews relevant materials, describes each technique, makes recommendations in some cases for scientific research and investigation, and notes applications in military and industrial settings. This book contains techniques that address…

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    Pre-College Science and Mathematics Teachers: Monitoring Supply, Demand and Quality

    Panel on Statistics on Supply and Demand for Precollege Science and Mathematics Teachers,Committee on National Statistics,National Research Council,Dorothy M. Gilford,Ellen Tenenbaum

    The report of a panel assembled by the National Research Council to evaluate the statistics on the supply and demand for science and mathematics teachers concludes that the available data…

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    The Changing Nature of Work: Implications for Occupational Analysis

    Committee on Techniques for the Enhancement of Human Performance: Occupational Analysis,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

    Examining the evidence for change in the world of work, this volume provides an illustrated framework for understanding the changes and the implications for analyzing the structure of occupations in…

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    Video Displays, Work and Vision

    Panel on Impact of Video Viewing on Vision of Workers,Committee on Vision,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

    Along with the use of computers have come fears that working in front of video display terminals (VDTs) can irritate and even damage the eyes. Separating scientific fact from popular…

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    Racial and Ethnic Differences in the Health of Older Americans

    Committee on Population,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

    Examines trends in mortality rates and selected causes of disability (cardiovascular disease, dementia) for older people of different racial and ethnic groups. This volume provides an understanding of research bearing…

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    Changing Numbers, Changing Needs: American Indian Demography and Public Health

    National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on Population

    Presents a summary of what is known about the demography of American Indian and Alaska Native population, their geographic distributions, household structure, employment, and disability and disease patterns. This volume…

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    Children of Immigrants: Health, Adjustment, and Public Assistance

    Committee on the Health and Adjustment of Immigrant Children and Families,National Research Council

    Presents research efforts on the circumstances, health, and development of children in immigrant families and the delivery of health and social services to these children and their families. This book…

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    What’s Changing in Prosecution?: Report of a Workshop

    Committee on Law and Justice,Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

    This workshop arose out of the efforts of the Committee on Law and Justice to assist the National Institute of Justice in identifying gaps in the overall research portfolio on…

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    Assessing Evaluation Studies: The Case of Bilingual Education Strategies

    Panel to Review Evaluation Studies of Bilingual Education,Committee on National Statistics,Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,National Research Council

    Providing a detailed critique of the two largest studies of US bilingual education programs, this book examines the goals of the studies and what can be learned from them. Using…

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    Research on Sentencing: The Search for Reform, Volume II

    National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on Research on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice,Panel on Sentencing Research

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    The Demography of Forced Migration: Summary of a Workshop

    Committee on Population,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences,Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education

    To explore a range of issues about internally displaced persons and refugees, the Committee on Population of the National Research Council organized a Workshop on the Demography of Forced Migration…

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    Interdisciplinary Research in Mathematics, Science, and Technology Education

    National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on Research in Mathematics, Science, and Technology Education

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    Improving Indicators of the Quality of Science and Mathematics Education in Grades K-12

    Committee on Indicators of Precollege Science and Mathematics Education,National Research Council,Richard J. Murnane,Senta A. Raizen

    Presents a monitoring system to track the progress of mathematics and science education. This book describes a series of indicators to assess student learning, curriculum quality, teaching effectiveness, student behavior…

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    Preventing Teen Motor Crashes: Contributions from the Behavioral and Social Sciences: Workshop Report

    National Research Council,Transportation Research Board,Institute of Medicine,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Board on Children, Youth, and Families

    From a public health perspective, motor vehicle crashes are among the most serious problems facing teenagers. Even after more than six months of being licensed to drive alone, teens are…

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    Evaluating Food Assistance Programs in an Era of Welfare Reform: Summary of a Workshop

    Committee on National Statistics,Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,National Research Council and Institute of Medicine,National Academy of Sciences

    This report was prepared in response to a request from the Economic Research Service (ERS) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). It summarizes the discussions at a February 1998…

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    Contact Lens Use Under Adverse Conditions: Applications in Military Aviation

    National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on Vision,Working Group on Contact Lens Use Under Adverse Conditions

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    Principles and Practices for a Federal Statistical Agency: Sixth Edition

    National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on National Statistics

    A consensus study report of The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

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    Mathematics, Science, and Technology Education: A Research Agenda

    National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on Research in Mathematics, Science, and Technology Education

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the…

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    Welfare, the Family, and Reproductive Behavior: Report of a Meeting

    Committee on Population,National Research Council and Institute of Medicine,National Academy of Sciences,Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education

    The design of welfare programs in an era of reform and devolution to the states must take into account the likely effects of programs on demographic behavior. This book of…

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    Expanding Access to Research Data: Reconciling Risks and Opportunities

    Panel on Data Access for Research Purposes,National Research Council

    Policy makers need information about the nation which comes from research based on data. The risk of expanded access to potentially sensitive data is the increased probability of breaching the…

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    The Future of Federal Household Surveys: A Workshop Summary

    National Research Council

    Federal household surveys today face several significant challenges including: increasing costs of data collection, declining response rates, perceptions of increasing response burden, inadequate timeliness of estimates, discrepant estimates of key…

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    Preparing for the Workplace: Charting a Course for Federal Postsecondary Training Policy

    Committee on Postsecondary Education and Training for the Workplace,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

    Reviews the state of postsecondary training for work in the United States, and addresses controversies about federal job policies, outlining a national approach to improved quality and accessibility in workplace…

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    Improving Theory and Research on Quality Enhancement in Organizations: Report of a Workshop

    National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences,Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education

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    The Importance of Common Metrics for Advancing Social Science Theory and Research: A Workshop Summary

    Committee on Advancing Social Science Theory: The Importance of Common Metrics,National Research Council

    This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing’s Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because…

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    National Patterns of R&D Resources: Future Directions for Content and Methods: Summary of a Workshop

    National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on National Statistics

    National Patterns of R&D Resources: Future Directions for Content and Methods: Summary of a Workshop (2013)

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    Education for Tomorrow’s Jobs

    Committee on Vocational Education and Economic Development in Depressed Areas,Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

    Deals with the ways in which vocational education can be strengthened to contribute to national education and economic goals. This book discusses changes in the economy and in the nature…

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    Risking the Future: Adolescent Sexuality, Pregnancy, and Childbearing, Volume II Working Papers only

    National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on Child Development Research and Public Policy,Panel on Adolescent Pregnancy and Childbearing

    More than a million teenage girls in the United States become pregnant each year; nearly half give birth. Why do these young people, who are hardly more than children themselves…

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    Risking the Future: Adolescent Sexuality, Pregnancy, and Childbearing, Volume II Statistical Appendices only

    National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on Child Development Research and Public Policy,Panel on Adolescent Pregnancy and Childbearing

    More than a million teenage girls in the United States become pregnant each year; nearly half give birth. Why do these young people, who are hardly more than children themselves…

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    Vital Statistics: Summary of a Workshop

    Committee on National Statistics,National Research Council

    Vital statistics, the records of birth and death, are a critical national information resource for understanding public health. Over the past few decades, the specific program that gathers the data…

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    Performance Assessment for the Workplace: Volume I

    National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on the Performance of Military Personnel

    Analyzes the JPM experience in the context of human resource management policy in the military. It includes topics such as the development of performance measures, the relationship between predictor scores…

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    Improving the Measurement of Late-Life Disability in Population Surveys: Beyond ADLs and IADLs: Summary of a Workshop

    National Research Council

    Improving the Measurement of Late-Life Disability in Population Surveys summarizes a workshop organized to draw upon recent advances to improve the measurement of physical and cognitive disability in population surveys…

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    Learning, Remembering, Believing: Enhancing Human Performance

    Committee on Techniques for the Enhancement of Human Performance,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

    Addresses issues in learning and performance. This book presents theories and findings from a range of research settings: from pilots learning to fly to children learning about physics by throwing…

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    Protecting Youth at Work: Health, Safety and Development of Working Children and Adolescents in the United States

    Committee on the Health and Safety Implications of Child Labor,National Research Council and Institute of Medicine,National Academy of Sciences

    Looks at what is known about work done by children and adolescents and the effects of that work on their physical and emotional health and social functioning. This book provides…

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    The Prevention and Treatment of Missing Data in Clinical Trials

    Panel on Handling Missing Data in Clinical Trials,National Research Council

    Randomized clinical trials are the primary tool for evaluating new medical interventions. Randomization provides for a fair comparison between treatment and control groups, balancing out, on average, distributions of known…

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    Women’s Work, Men’s Work: Sex Segregation on the Job

    Committee on Women's Employment and Related Social Issues,National Research Council

    Even though women have made substantial progress in a number of formerly male occupations, sex segregation in the workplace remains a fact of life. This volume probes pertinent questions: Why…

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    Preventing Drug Abuse: What Do We Know?

    Committee on Substance Abuse Prevention Research,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

    Deals with drug abuse prevention and its effectiveness. This book presents: the results of antidrug efforts; the role and effectiveness of mass media in preventing drug use; a profile of…

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    Principles and Practices for a Federal Statistical Agency: Fifth Edition

    National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on National Statistics

    Four principles are fundamental for a federal statistical agency: relevance to policy issues, credibility among data users, trust among data providers, and independence from political and other undue external influence…

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    Youth Employment and Training Programs: The YEDPA Years

    Committee on Youth Employment Programs,Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,National Research Council

    Between 1978 and 1981, the Youth Employment and Demonstration Projects Act (YEDPA) funded programs designed to aid disadvantaged youth. Beginning with YEDPA’s inception and lifespan, this report analyzes the data…

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    Reliability Growth: Enhancing Defense System Reliability

    National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on National Statistics,Panel on Reliability Growth Methods for Defense Systems

    A high percentage of defense systems fail to meet their reliability requirements. This is a serious problem for the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD), as well as the nation. Those…

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    Making Policies for Children: A Study of the Federal Process

    National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on Child Development Research and Public Policy,Panel for the Study of the Policy Formation Process

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    Modeling Cost and Performance for Military Enlistment: Report of a Workshop

    Committee on Military Enlistment Standards,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

    Describes a cost/performance trade-off model useful for illustrating the effects of budget decisions on the quality of expected performance in the military enlisted force. This book discusses technical issues associated…

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    Key Transportation Indicators: Summary of a Workshop

    Committee on National Statistics,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

    The purpose of the Worksshop on Transportation Indicators was to discuss issues relating to transportation indicators and provide the Bureau of Transportation Statistics with new ideas for issues to address.–P…

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    Evaluating Welfare Reform: A Framework and Review of Current Work, Interim Report

    Panel on Data and Methods for Measuring the Effects of Changes in Social Welfare Programs,Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on National Statistics,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,National Research Council

    The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) of 1996 fundamentally changed the nation’s social welfare system, replacing a federal entitlement program for low-income families, called Aid to Families…

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    Performance Assessment for the Workplace

    Committee on the Performance of Military Personnel,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

    Covers several measurement and analytical issues in technical detail, including: range restriction adjustments, methods for evaluating multiple sources of error in measurement, comparing alternative measures of performance, and strategies for…

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    Alcohol in America: Taking Action to Prevent Abuse

    Steve Olson,Dean R. Gerstein,National Research Council,Elizabeth Hanford Dole,United States Department of Transportation

    Alcohol is a killer. One of every thirteen deaths in the United States is alcohol-related. This book takes a look at the problem, and is useful for those in the…

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    Improving Risk Communication: Working Papers

    National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Resources,Committee on Risk Perception and Communication

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    Enhancing Organizational Performance

    National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on Techniques for the Enhancement of Human Performance

    Reviews approaches to organizational change - total quality management, reengineering, and downsizing - in terms of how they affect organizations and people, how performance improvements can be measured, and what…

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