Böcker av Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education

Helps broaden our understanding of the mistreatment of the elderly and recommends specific research and funding strategies. This book includes a discussion of the conceptual, methodological, and logistical issues needed to create a solid research base as well as the ethical concerns that must be considered when working with older subjects.

Examines the potential of tools that emphasize education, information, and voluntary measures on environmental regulation. This book includes contributions that summarize the effectiveness of these tools, individually and with regulatory and economic policy instruments. It looks at what is needed to make these tools effective.

Presents an examination of contraceptive development in the United States, covering research, funding, regulation, product liability, and the effect of public opinion. This book provides a blueprint for substantial change, with specific policy recommendations that promise to gain the attention of specialists, the media, and the American public.

In November 2000, the Board on International Comparative Studies in Education (BICSE) held a symposium to evaluate improvement in the quality of the methodologies used in international studies, and to identify the most pressing methodological issues that remain to be solved. This title includes papers prepared for this symposium.

Summarizes a range of scientific perspectives on the goal of achieving high educational standards for all students. Based on a conference held at the request of the US Department of Education, this volume draws on the conclusions of a number of important NRC reports.

Researchers, historians, and philosophers of science have debated the nature of scientific research in education for more than 100 years. This book describes the similarities and differences between scientific inquiry in education and scientific inquiry in other fields and disciplines and provides a number of examples to illustrate these ideas.

Describes and evaluates models of human performance and their use in the design and evaluation of human-technology systems. This book focuses on the modeling of system operators who perform supervisory and manual control tasks. It describes information processing, control theory, task network, and knowledge-based models.

Focuses specifically on middle childhood - a discrete, pivotal period of development. This work examines the physical health and cognitive development of 6- to 12-year-old children as well as their surroundings: school and home environment, ecocultural setting, and family and peer relationships.

Addressing the design and delivery of reproductive health services, this volume presents lessons learned from past programs and offers principles for deciding how to spend limited available funds. It is of special interest to policymakers, health care professionals, and researchers working on reproductive issues in the developing world.

What impact does teaching style have? How do I plan a course curriculum? This handbook provides productive approaches to these and several other questions. It provides undergraduate science educators with a path to understanding students, accommodating their individual differences, and helping them grasp the methods - and the wonder - of science.

Explores the complexity of violent behavior in our society and puts forth a framework for analyzing risk factors for violent events. This book explores such diverse but related topics as crime statistics; biological influences on violent behavior; the prison population explosion; and developmental and public health perspectives on violence.

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 beanbags. It also explores common folklore and identifies promising research directions. It evaluates the effects of subjective experience on learning.

Examines policy issues, projection models, and data bases pertaining to the supply of, demand for, and quality of teachers in the United States from kindergarten to twelfth grade. This book identifies additional data needed to clarify policy issues or for use in projection models.

Contains reviews of research on biological influences on violent or aggressive behaviour. This volume examines areas, such as genetic contributions to the probability of violent behaviours; brain structure and functioning as implicated in aggressive behaviour; the roles of hormonal and neurological interactions in violent behaviour; and more.

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 and drawing conclusions from these studies. The observations and recommendations are aimed at vision scientists and clinicians.

The economic and social challenges confronting the nation demand that all citizens acquire and learn to use complex reasoning and thinking skills. This volume highlights successful learning strategies, and makes specific recommendations about problems and directions requiring further study.

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 alcoholism prevention business. It is also aimed at counselors, politicians, judges, medical professionals, and law enforcement officials throughout the country.

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 has the overall degree of sex segregation remained stable in this century? What informal barriers keep it in place?

Examines how to update human subjects protections regulations so that they effectively respond to current research contexts and methods. This book addresses the dramatic alterations in the research landscapes that institutional review boards (IRBs) have come to inhabit during the past 40 years.

A a summary of a workshop convened to consider data and methodological issues in measuring time use. It summarizes conceptual issues covered during the workshop, discusses a framework for how individuals and households allocate their time, and comments on some conceptual issues in measuring time use.