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    The Aging Mind: Opportunities in Cognitive Research

    Committee on Future Directions for Cognitive Research on Aging,Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences,National Research Council

    Possible breakthroughs in understanding the aging mind that can be used to benefit older people are now emerging from research. This volume identifies the key scientific advances and the opportunities…

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    Naep Reporting Practices: Investigating District-Level and Market-Basket Reporting

    Committee on NAEP Reporting Practices,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Board on Testing and Assessment

    At the request of the Department of Education, the National Research Council formed the Committee on NAEP Reporting Practices to address questions about the desirability, feasibility, and potential impact of…

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    Human Interactions with the Carbon Cycle: Summary of a Workshop

    Paul C. Stern,Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change,Board on Environmental Change and Society,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,National Research Council

    The USGCRP’s Carbon Cycle Working Group asked the National Research Council’s Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change to hold a workshop on Human Interactions with the Carbon Cycle…

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    Learning and Instruction: A SERP Research Agenda

    Panel on Learning and Instruction,Strategic Education Research Partnership,National Research Council

    The Strategic Education Research Partnership (SERP) is an ambitious plan, which aims to construct a powerful knowledge base that will support the efforts of teachers, school administrators, colleges of education…

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    How People Learn: Bridging Research and Practice

    Committee on Learning Research and Educational Practice,National Research Council

    What can teachers and schools do – with curricula, classroom settings, and teaching methods – to help children learn most effectively? New evidence from many branches of science has significantly…

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    Public Engagement on Genetically Modified Organisms: When Science and Citizens Connect: Workshop Summary

    National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Board on Science Education,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Board on Life Sciences

    The National Research Council’s Roundtable on Public Interfaces of the Life Sciences held a 2-day workshop on January 15-16, 2015, in Washington, DC to explore the public interfaces between scientists…

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    Early Childhood Intervention: Views from the Field: Report of a Workshop

    Board on Children, Youth, and Families,Committee on Integrating the Science of Early Childhood Development

    On June 24-25, 1999, the Committee on Integrating the Science of Early Childhood Development of the Board on Children, Youth, and Families of the National Research Council/National Academy of Sciences…

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    Dynamic Social Network Modeling and Analysis: Workshop Summary and Papers

    Comittee on Human Factors,National Research Council

    In the summer of 2002, the Office of Naval Research asked the Committee on Human Factors to hold a workshop on dynamic social network and analysis. The presentations at this…

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    Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change: Research Pathways for the Next Decade

    National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Policy Division,Board on Environmental Change and Society,Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change and Committee on Global Change Research

    This publication is extracted from a much larger report, Global Environmental Change: Research Pathways for the Next Decade, which addresses the full range of the scientific issues concerning global environmental…

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    Successful STEM Education: A Workshop Summary

    Committee on Highly Successful Schools or Programs for K-12 STEM Education,National Research Council

    What students learn about the science disciplines, technology, engineering, and mathematics during their K-12 schooling shapes their intellectual development, opportunities for future study and work, and choices of career, as…

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    Work-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders: Report, Workshop Summary, and Workshop Papers

    Steering Committee for the Workshop on Work-Related Musculoskeletal Injuries: The Research Base,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

    Presents a preliminary assessment of what is known about the relationship between musculoskeletal disorders and what may cause them. This book includes papers and a workshop summary of findings from…

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    On Evaluating Curricular Effectiveness: Judging the Quality of K-12 Mathematics Evaluations

    Committee for a Review of the Evaluation Data on the Effectiveness of NSF-Supported and Commercially Generated Mathematics Curriculum Materials,National Research Council

    This book reviews the evaluation research literature that has accumulated around 19 K-12 mathematics curricula and breaks new ground in framing an ambitious and rigorous approach to curriculum evaluation that…

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    Selecting Instructional Materials: A Guide for K-12 Science

    Committee on Developing the Capacity to Select Effective Instructional Materials,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

    The National Science Education Standards set broad content goals for teaching grades K-12. This volume provides a procedure to help education decisionmakers evaluate and choose materials for the science classroom…

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    Design of the National Children’s Study: A Workshop Summary

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

    In the fall of 2012, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) requested that the Committee on National Statistics (CNSTAT) of the NRC and the IOM convene a…

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    Child Maltreatment Research, Policy, and Practice for the Next Decade: Workshop Summary

    Board on Children, Youth, and Families,Institute of Medicine,National Research Council

    . ..on January 30-31, 2012, the Board on Children, Youth, and Families at the Institute of Medicine (IOM) and the NRC held a workshop to review the accomplishments of the…

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    Classroom Assessment and the National Science Education Standards

    Committee on Classroom Assessment and the National Science Education Standards,Center for Education

    An accompanying volume to the National Science Education Standards. Focusing on the teacher as the primary player in assessment, this book offers assessment guidelines and explores how they can be…

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    Workload Transition: Implications for Individual and Team Performance

    Panel on Workload Transition,National Research Council

    Provides a systematic evaluation of workload transition. This book focuses on a broad spectrum of activities ranging from team cooperation to the maintenance of this problem on a theoretical level…

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    Tactical Display for Soldiers: Human Factors Considerations

    Panel on Human Factors in the Design of Tactical Display Systems for the Individual Soldier,National Research Council

    Examines the human factors issues associated with the development, testing, and implementation of helmet-mounted display technology. This book proposes an innovative approach to research and testing based on a three-stage…

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    Understanding Risk: Informing Decisions in a Democratic Society

    Committee on Risk Characterization,National Research Council

    Addresses a central dilemma of risk decision making in a democracy: scientific and technical information is essential for making decisions, but the people who make and live with those decisions…

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    Studying Classroom Teaching as a Medium for Professional Development: Proceedings of a U.S.-Japan Workshop

    U.S. National Commission on Mathematics Instruction,Board on International Scientific Organizations

    In August 2000, following the Ninth International Congress on Mathematics Education in Makuhari, Japan, MSEB and USNCMI capitalized on the presence of mathematics educators in attendance from the US and…

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    The Behavioral and Social Sciences: Achievements and Opportunities

    Committee on Basic Research in the Behavioral and Social Sciences,National Research Council,Dean R. Gerstein

    Explores the scientific frontiers and leading edges of research across the fields of anthropology, economics, political science, psychology, sociology, history, business, education, geography, law, and psychiatry, as well as specialized…

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    Visual Impairments: Determining Eligibility for Social Security Benefits

    Committee on Disability Determination for Individuals with Visual Impairments,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

    Examines SSA’s (US Social Security Administration) methods of determining disability for people with visual impairments, recommends changes that could be made to improve the process and the outcomes, and identifies…

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    Hearing Loss: Determining Eligibility for Social Security Benefits

    Committee on Disability Determination for Individuals with Hearing Impairments,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

    Millions of Americans experience some degree of hearing loss. The Social Security Administration (SSA) operates programs that provide cash disability benefits to people with permanent impairments like hearing loss, if…

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    Investing in Research Infrastructure in the Behavioral and Social Sciences

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

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    What is the Influence of the National Science Education Standards?: Reviewing the Evidence, A Workshop Summary

    Steering Committee on Taking Stock of the National Science Education Standards: The Research,National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education

    In 2001, with support from National Science Foundation, the National Research Council began a review of the evidence concerning whether or not the National Science Education Standards have had an…

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    Restructuring Federal Climate Research to Meet the Challenges of Climate Change

    Committee on Strategic Advice on the U.S. Climate Change Science Program,National Research Council

    With effective climate change mitigation policies still under development, and with even the most aggressive proposals unable to halt climate change immediately, many decision makers are focusing unprecedented attention on…

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    Communicating Science and Engineering Data in the Information Age

    Panel on Communicating National Science Foundation Science and Engineering Information to Data Users,National Research Council

    The National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES) of the National Science Foundation (NSF) communicates its science and engineering (S&E) information to data users in a very fluid environment…

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    A Review of the U.S. Global Change Research Program’s Strategic Plan

    Committee to Advise the U.S. Global Change Research Program,National Research Council

    The U.S. government supports a large, diverse suite of activities that can be broadly characterized as global change research. Such research offers a wide array of benefits to the nation…

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    High Stakes: Testing for Tracking, Promotion and Graduation

    Committee on Appropriate Test Use,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

    States that everyone is in favor of ‘high education standards’ and ‘fair testing’ of student achievement, but there is little agreement as to what these terms actually mean. This book…

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    Incentives and Test-Based Accountability in Education

    Committee on Incentives and Test-Based Accountability in Public Education,National Research Council

    In recent years there have been increasing efforts to use accountability systems based on large-scale tests of students as a mechanism for improving student achievement. The federal No Child Left…

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    Knowing What Students Know: The Science and Design of Educational Assessment

    National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Center for Education,Board on Testing and Assessment,Committee on the Foundations of Assessment

    Education is a hot topic. From the stage of presidential debates to tonight’s dinner table, it is an issue that most Americans are deeply concerned about. This title explains how…

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    Key National Education Indicators: Workshop Summary

    National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on National Statistics,Board on Testing and Assessment,Steering Committee on Workshop on Key National Education Indicators

    The education system in the United States is continually challenged to adapt and improve, in part because its mission has become far more ambitious than it once was. At the…

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    How Students Learn: History in the Classroom

    Committee on How People Learn: A Targeted Report for Teachers,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

    In this volume, practical questions that confront every history teacher are addressed using the latest research on cognition, teaching, and learning.

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    Technology for Adaptive Aging

    Steering Committee for the Workshop on Technology for Adaptive Aging,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

    Brings together experts in aging research to discuss applications of technology to communication, education and learning, employment, and health. This work includes the workshop papers of the committee that organized…

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    Evaluating Military Advertising and Recruiting: Theory and Methodology

    Committee on the Youth Population and Military Recruitment - Phase II,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

    Helps the DoD improve its research on advertising and recruiting policies. This book presents a framework for evaluation that links different types of research questions to various research methodologies.

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    Pathways to Exploration: Rationales and Approaches for a U.S. Program of Human Space Exploration

    Committee on Human Spaceflight Crew Operations,Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board,Space Studies Board,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Committee on National Statistics

    The United States has publicly funded its human spaceflight program on a continuous basis for more than a half-century, through three wars and a half-dozen recessions, from the early Mercury…

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    Behavioral and Social Science Research: A National Resource

    Committee on Basic Research in the Behavioral and Social Sciences,Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

    Specifies appropriate criteria for assessing the value, significance, and social utility of basic research in the social sciences. This book identifies illustrative areas of basic research in the social sciences…

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    Research Opportunities Concerning the Causes and Consequences of Child Food Insecurity and Hunger: Workshop Summary

    Institute of Medicine,National Research Council,Food and Nutrition Board,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on National Statistics

    Section 141 of The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 20101 provides funding for a research program on the causes and consequences of childhood hunger and food insecurity, and the characteristics…

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    Behavioral and Social Science: 50 Years of Discovery

    Committee on Basic Research in the Behavioral and Social Sciences,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

    In 1933, President Herbert Hoover commissioned the Ogburn Report, a comprehensive study of social trends in the US. Containing chapters related to the developments detailed in the Ogburn Report to…

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    An Evaluation of the Public Schools of the District of Columbia: Reform in a Changing Landscape

    National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Board on Testing and Assessment,Committee for the Five-Year (2009-2013) Summative Evaluation of the District of Columbia Public Schools

    An Evaluation of the Public Schools of the District of Columbia is a comprehensive five-year summative evaluation report for Phase Two of an initiative to evaluate the District of Columbia’s…

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    Population and Land Use in Developing Countries: Report of a Workshop

    Committee on Population,National Research Council,National Research Council,Commission on Behavioral & Social Sciences & Education

    Summarizes research by experts from both the natural and social sciences on the effects of population growth on land use. This book also includes case studies of African, Asian, and…

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    Starting Out Right: A Guide to Promoting Children’s Reading Success

    Committee on the Prevention of Reading Difficulties in Young Children,National Research Council

    States that a large number of people in America cannot read as well as they need for success in life. This book discusses how best to help children succeed in…

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    Preventing Reading Difficulties in Young Children

    Committee on the Prevention of Reading Difficulties in Young Children,National Research Council

    Many young Americans’ futures are imperiled because they do not read well enough to meet the demands of our competitive, technology-driven society. This book explores the problem within the context…

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    Mental Retardation: Determining Eligibility for Social Security Benefits

    Committee on Disability Determination for Mental Retardation,National Research Council

    Between 1 and 3 percent of people living in the United States receive a diagnosis of mental retardation. The US Social Security Administration (SSA) provides income support and medical benefits…

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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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    Aging and the Macroeconomy: Long-Term Implications of an Older Population

    National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on Population,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Board on Mathematical Sciences and Their Applications

    The United States is in the midst of a major demographic shift. In the coming decades, people aged 65 and over will make up an increasingly large percentage of the…

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    Myopia: Prevalence and Progression

    Committee on Vision,National Research Council

    Considers the issues surrounding the occurrence, progression, and predictability of myopia, with emphasis on the 16- to 26-year-old population. This book presents the research in this area, analyzing the findings…

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    Planning for Two Transformations in Education and Learning Technology: Report of a Workshop

    Committee on Improving Learning with Information Technology,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences,Center for Education,Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences

    In response to concerns about the continued unrealized potential of IT in K-12 education, the National Research CouncilaEURO ™s Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Center for Education…

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