Sökt på: Böcker av Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education
totalt 283 träffar
Premature Death in the New Independent States
In recent years there have been alarming reports of rapid decreases in life expectancy in the New Independent States (former members of the Soviet Union). To help assess priorities …
Evaluation of Compensation Data Collected Through the EEO-1 Form
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) expanded EEO-1 data collection for reporting years 2017 to 2018 in an effort to improve its ability to investigate and …
Statistics, Testing, and Defense Acquisition
The Panel on Statistical Methods for Testing and Evaluating Defense Systems had a broad mandate-to examine the use of statistics in conjunction with defense testing. This involved …
Nature's Numbers
In order to really see the forest, what's the best way to count the trees? Understanding how the economy interacts with the environment has important implications for policy, …
Paying Attention to Children in a Changing Health Care System
America's health care system is being reshaped by a variety of market-driven changes, and states are emerging as the major governmental influence on health care policy.Amid these …
Measuring a Changing Nation
This final report of the Panel on Alternative Census Methodologies provides an assessment of the Census Bureau's plans for the 2000 census as of the time of the 1998 census dress …
Issues in Civilian Outplacement Strategies
In the past six years, planned downsizing has reduced the civilian work force of the U.S. Department of Defense from over 1 million to just under 850,000. By 2001, approximately …
Assessment of Science Meets the Science of Assessment
To explore the connections between new approaches to science education and new developments in assessment, the Board on Testing and Assessment (BOTA) of the National Research …
Demography of Forced Migration
Because forced migration situations are often physically dangerous and politically complicated, estimates of these populations are often difficult to make. Estimates of forced …
Choosing the Right Formula
The workshop was a direct outgrowth of a previous study by the CNSTAT Panel on Estimates of Poverty for Small Geographic Areas. That panel, established under a 1994 act of …
Summary of a Workshop on Information Technology Research for Federal Statistics
Part of an in-depth study of how information technology research and development could more effectively support advances in the use of information technology (IT) in government, …
Beyond Six Billion
Is rapid world population growth actually coming to an end? As population growth and its consequences have become front-page issues, projections of slowing growth from such …