Bøger af and Sensory Sciences Board on Behavioral

Offers research about the mind and the brain that provides answers to a number of compelling questions. This book uses exemplary teaching to illustrate how approaches based on what we now know result in in-depth learning. The knowledge calls into question concepts and practices firmly entrenched in our education system.

Presents the summary of a workshop held April 3-4, 2013 to examine the future of military entrance assessments.

On July 26, 2011, the US Department of Health and Human Services issued an advance notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPRM) with the purpose of soliciting comments on how regulations for protecting research participants could be modernized and revised. This title focuses on six areas.

Reviews individual, organizational, and societal (IOS) modeling research programs. This book evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of the programs and their methodologies. It determines which have the greatest potential for military use. It guides the design of a research program to foster the development of IOS models useful to the military.

Presents an assessment of how the US Department of Veterans Affairs evaluates veterans with possible post traumatic stress disorder and determines the level of disability support to which they are entitled. This book presents a history of mental health disability compensation of military personnel.

Examines the data on early childhood experience, on differences in educational opportunity, and on referral and placement. This book also considers whether disproportionate representation should be considered a problem. This is a useful resource to educators throughout the nation, as well as to policy makers at various levels.

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.

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.

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

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