@BOOK{NAP author = "National Research Council", title = "Standards for K-12 Engineering Education?", isbn = "978-0-309-16015-5", abstract = "The goal of this study was to assess the value and feasibility of developing and implementing content standards for engineering education at the K-12 level. Content standards have been developed for three disciplines in STEM education--science, technology, and mathematic--but not for engineering. To date, a small but growing number of K-12 students are being exposed to engineering-related materials, and limited but intriguing evidence suggests that engineering education can stimulate interest and improve learning in mathematics and science as well as improve understanding of engineering and technology. Given this background, a reasonable question is whether standards would improve the quality and increase the amount of teaching and learning of engineering in K-12 education. \n\nThe book concludes that, although it is theoretically possible to develop standards for K-12 engineering education, it would be extremely difficult to ensure their usefulness and effective implementation. This conclusion is supported by the following findings: (1) there is relatively limited experience with K-12 engineering education in U.S. elementary and secondary schools, (2) there is not at present a critical mass of teachers qualified to deliver engineering instruction, (3) evidence regarding the impact of standards-based educational reforms on student learning in other subjects, such as mathematics and science, is inconclusive, and (4) there are significant barriers to introducing stand-alone standards for an entirely new content area in a curriculum already burdened with learning goals in more established domains of study.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/12990/standards-for-k-12-engineering-education", year = 2010, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Transportation Research Board and National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine", title = "Effectiveness of Commercial Motor Vehicle Driver Training Curricula and Delivery Methods", abstract = "TRB's Commercial Truck and Bus Safety Synthesis Program (CTBSSP) Synthesis 13: Effectiveness of Commercial Motor Vehicle Driver Training Curricula and Delivery Methods explores the state of commercial motor vehicle (CMV) operator training in the trucking and motorcoach industries. The report examines the experiences of training programs that are using some combination of simulators and computer-based instruction and identifies measures of training effectiveness being used in the CMV community.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/23272/effectiveness-of-commercial-motor-vehicle-driver-training-curricula-and-delivery-methods", year = 2007, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Research Council", title = "Distributed Decision Making: Report of a Workshop", isbn = "978-0-309-04199-7", abstract = "Decision making in today's organizations is often distributed widely and usually supported by such technologies as satellite communications, electronic messaging, teleconferencing, and shared data bases. Distributed Decision Making outlines the process and problems involved in dispersed decision making, draws on current academic and case history information, and highlights the need for better theories, improved research methods and more interdisciplinary studies on the individual and organizational issues associated with distributed decision making. An appendix provides additional background reading on this socially and economically important problem area.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/1558/distributed-decision-making-report-of-a-workshop", year = 1990, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine", title = "Ontologies in the Behavioral Sciences: Accelerating Research and the Spread of Knowledge: Digest Version", abstract = "Ontologies in the Behavioral Sciences: Accelerating Research and the Spread of Knowledge describes how ontologies support science and its application to real-world problems. That report details how ontologies function, how they can be engineered to better support the behavioral sciences, and the resources needed to sustain their development and use to help ensure the maximum benefit from investment in behavioral science research. The full report published in May, 2022. This digest version summarizes the primary ideas presented in that report.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/26755/ontologies-in-the-behavioral-sciences-accelerating-research-and-the-spread-of-knowledge", year = 2022, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Institute of Medicine", editor = "Steve Olson and Sheila Moats", title = "Nutrition Education in the K-12 Curriculum: The Role of National Standards: Workshop Summary", isbn = "978-0-309-28719-7", abstract = "The childhood obesity epidemic and related health consequences are urgent public health problems. Approximately one-third of America's young people are overweight or obese. Health problems once seen overwhelmingly in adults, such as type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and hypertension, are increasingly appearing in youth. Though the health of Americans has improved in many broad areas for decades, increases in obesity could erode these and future improvements. The IOM report Accelerating Progress in Obesity Prevention: Solving the Weight of the Nation recognized the importance of the school environment in addressing the epidemic and recommended making schools a focal point for obesity prevention. The development and implementation of K-12 nutrition benchmarks, guides, or standards (for a discussion of these terms, see the next section of this chapter) would constitute a critical step in achieving this recommendation. National nutrition education curriculum standards could have a variety of benefits, including the following:\n\n Improving the consistency and effectiveness of nutrition education in schools;\n Preparing and training teachers and other education staff to help them provide effective nutrition education;\n Assisting colleges and universities in the development of courses in nutrition as part of teacher certification and in updating methods courses on how to integrate nutrition education in subject-matter areas in the classroom and in materials; and\n Establishing a framework for future collaborative efforts and partnerships to improve nutrition education.\n\nNutrition Education in the K-12 Curriculum: The Role of National Standards is a summary of the workshop's presentations and discussions prepared from the workshop transcript and slides. This summary presents recommendations made by individual speakers.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/18361/nutrition-education-in-the-k-12-curriculum-the-role-of", year = 2013, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Transportation Research Board and National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine", editor = "Parsons Brinckerhoff", title = "Improving Our Understanding of How Highway Congestion and Pricing Affect Travel Demand", abstract = "TRB\u2019s second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) Report S2-C04-RW-1: Improving Our Understanding of How Highway Congestion and Pricing Affect Travel Demand includes mathematical descriptions of the full range of highway user behavioral responses to congestion, travel time reliability, and pricing. The descriptions included in the report were achieved by mining existing data sets. The report estimates a series of nine utility equations, progressively adding variables of interest.The report explores the effect on demand and route choice of demographic characteristics, car occupancy, value of travel time, value of travel time reliability, situational variability, and an observed toll aversion bias.An unabridged, unedited version of Chapter 3: Demand Model Specifications and Estimation Results is available electronically.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/22689/improving-our-understanding-of-how-highway-congestion-and-pricing-affect-travel-demand", year = 2012, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Transportation Research Board and National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine", title = "Communication with Vulnerable Populations: A Transportation and Emergency Management Toolkit", abstract = "TRB\u2019s Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Report 150: Communication with Vulnerable Populations: A Transportation and Emergency Management Toolkit describes how to create a communication process to reach vulnerable populations regarding their transportation options in emergencies.The toolkit provides a guiding framework and tools for constructing a scalable, adaptable communication process built on a network of agencies from public, private, and nonprofit sectors. Together, these partners will form interconnected communication channels with the ability to carry out the function of emergency communication not necessarily possible by working alone.A PowerPoint slide show, which summarizes the toolkit, is available online.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/22845/communication-with-vulnerable-populations-a-transportation-and-emergency-management-toolkit", year = 2011, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine", editor = "Joe Alper and Rose Marie Martinez and Kelly McHugh", title = "Optimizing Care Systems for People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities: Proceedings of a Workshop", isbn = "978-0-309-69060-7", abstract = "Approximately 7.4 million people in the United States live with an intellectual or developmental disability (IDD), defined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as \"a group of conditions due to an impairment in physical, learning, language, or behavior areas. These conditions begin during the developmental period, may impact day-to-day functioning, and usually last throughout a person\u2019s lifetime.\" Individuals with IDD and their caretakers face exceptional barriers to staying healthy and accessing appropriate health services. Among these barriers are difficulty finding care providers that are adequately trained in meeting their specialized needs, unwieldy payment structures, and a lack of coordination between the various systems of care with which patients with IDD may interact (e.g., education, social work, various segments of the health care system).\nThe National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine hosted a workshop to discuss promising innovations in (1) workforce development, (2) financing and payment, and (3) care coordination; and to share visions for improved systems of care. Participants noted that while many existing approaches could serve as models for improving care, large changes will need to be made in these 3 facets of the care system in order to make them accessible to all IDD patients. This publication summarizes the presentations and discussions of the workshop.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/26624/optimizing-care-systems-for-people-with-intellectual-and-developmental-disabilities", year = 2022, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine", editor = "Robert M. Kaplan and Alexandra S. Beatty", title = "Ontologies in the Behavioral Sciences: Accelerating Research and the Spread of Knowledge", isbn = "978-0-309-27731-0", abstract = "New research in psychology, neuroscience, cognitive science, and other fields is published every day, but the gap between what is known and the capacity to act on that knowledge has never been larger. Scholars and nonscholars alike face the problem of how to organize knowledge and to integrate new observations with what is already known. Ontologies - formal, explicit specifications of the meaning of the concepts and entities that scientists study - provide a way to address these and other challenges, and thus to accelerate progress in behavioral research and its application.\nOntologies help researchers precisely define behavioral phenomena and how they relate to each other and reliably classify them. They help researchers identify the inconsistent use of definitions, labels, and measures and provide the basis for sharing knowledge across diverse approaches and methodologies. Although ontologies are an ancient idea, modern researchers rely on them to codify research terms and findings in computer-readable formats and work with large datasets and computer-based analytic techniques.\nOntologies in the Behavioral Sciences: Accelerating Research and the Spread of Knowledge describes how ontologies support science and its application to real-world problems. This report details how ontologies function, how they can be engineered to better support the behavioral sciences, and the resources needed to sustain their development and use to help ensure the maximum benefit from investment in behavioral science research. ", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/26464/ontologies-in-the-behavioral-sciences-accelerating-research-and-the-spread", year = 2022, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Transportation Research Board and National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine", editor = "Yannis C. Stogios and Andy Brijmohan and Hani Mahmassani and Jiwon Kim and Ying Chen and Peter Vovsha", title = "Incorporating Reliability Performance Measures into Operations and Planning Modeling Tools", abstract = "TRB\u2019s second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) Report S2-L04-RR-1: Incorporating Reliability Performance Measures into Operations and Planning Modeling Tools explores the underlying conceptual foundations of travel modeling and traffic simulation and provides practical means of generating realistic reliability performance measures using network simulation models.SHRP 2 Reliability Project L04 also produced a report titled Incorporating Reliability Performance Measures into Operations and Planning Modeling Tools Application Guidelines that provides an overview of the methodology and tools that can be applied to existing microsimulation and mesoscopic modeling software in order to assess travel time reliability.SHRP 2 Reliability Project L04 also produced another publication titled Incorporating Reliability Performance Measures into Operations and Planning Modeling Tools: Reference Material that discusses the activities required to develop operational models to address the needs of the L04 research project.The L04 project also produced two pieces of software and accompanying user\u2019s guides: the Trajectory Processor and the Scenario Manager.Software Disclaimer: These materials are offered as is, without warranty or promise of support of any kind, either expressed or implied. Under no circumstance will the National Academy of Sciences or the Transportation Research Board (collectively \u201cTRB\u201d) be liable for any loss or damage caused by the installation or operation of these materials. TRB makes no representation or warranty of any kind, expressed or implied, in fact or in law, including without limitation, the warranty of merchantability or the warranty of fitness for a particular purpose, and shall not in any case be liable for any consequential or special damages.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/22388/incorporating-reliability-performance-measures-into-operations-and-planning-modeling-tools", year = 2014, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Transportation Research Board and National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine", editor = "Zongwei Tao and Jeffrey Spotts and Elizabeth Hess", title = "Post-Course Assessment and Reporting Tool for Trainers and TIM Responders Using the SHRP 2 Interdisciplinary Traffic Incident Management Curriculum", abstract = "TRB\u2019s second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) Report S2-L32C-RW-1: Post-Course Assessment and Reporting Tool for Trainers and TIM Responders Using the SHRP 2 Interdisciplinary Traffic Incident Management Curriculum documents the development of a tool to assess the effectiveness of a multidisciplinary, multiagency training curriculum for traffic incident management.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/22320/post-course-assessment-and-reporting-tool-for-trainers-and-tim-responders-using-the-shrp-2-interdisciplinary-traffic-incident-management-curriculum", year = 2014, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP title = "Aging in Today's Environment", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/1293/aging-in-todays-environment", year = 1987, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine", editor = "Krisztina Marton", title = "Measuring Trauma: Workshop Summary", isbn = "978-0-309-44337-1", abstract = "The Workshop on Integrating New Measures of Trauma into the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration\u2019s (SAMHSA) Data Collection Programs, held in Washington, D.C. in December 2015, was organized as part of an effort to assist SAMHSA and the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in their responsibilities to expand the collection of behavioral health data to include measures of trauma. The main goals of the workshop were to discuss options for collecting data and producing estimates on exposure to traumatic events and PTSD, including available measures and associated possible data collection mechanisms. This report summarizes the presentations and discussions from the workshop.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/23526/measuring-trauma-workshop-summary", year = 2016, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Transportation Research Board and National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine", editor = "QinetiQ North America and Hile Group and Department of Engineering Professional Development University of Wisconsin", title = "A Guide to Building and Retaining Workforce Capacity for the Railroad Industry", abstract = "TRB\u2019s National Cooperative Rail Research Program (NCRRP) Report 2: A Guide to Building and Retaining Workforce Capacity for the Railroad Industry presents competency models that describe workforce requirements for the passenger and freight railroad industry. The models are based on assessments of past trends, current forecasts, and a detailed gap analysis of employee supply and demand. The report also presents a strategy for improving employee retention and enhancing educational programs designed to attract new employees to the industry.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/21904/a-guide-to-building-and-retaining-workforce-capacity-for-the-railroad-industry", year = 2015, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine", title = "Strategies to Enhance Air Force Communication with Internal and External Audiences: A Workshop Report", isbn = "978-0-309-38901-3", abstract = "The U.S. Air Force (USAF) helps defend the United States and its interests by organizing, training, and equipping forces for operations in and through three distinct domains -- air, space, and cyberspace. The Air Force concisely expresses its vision as \"Global Vigilance, Global Reach, and Global Power for America.\" Operations within each of these domains are dynamic, take place over large distances, occur over different operational timelines, and cannot be routinely seen or recorded, making it difficult for Airmen, national decision makers, and the American People to visualize and comprehend the full scope of Air Force operations. As a result, the Air Force faces increasing difficulty in succinctly and effectively communicating the complexity, dynamic range, and strategic importance of its mission to Airmen and to the American people.\nTo address this concern, the Chief of Staff of the USAF requested that the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convene a workshop to explore options on how the Air Force can effectively communicate the strategic importance of the Service, its mission, and the role it plays in the defense of the United States. Participants worked to address the issues that a diverse workforce encompassing a myriad of backgrounds, education, and increasingly diverse current mission sets drives the requirement for a new communication strategy. The demographics of today's Air Force creates both a unique opportunity and a distinct challenge to Air Force leadership as it struggles to communicate its vision and strategy effectively across several micro-cultures within the organization and to the general public. This report summarizes the presentations and discussions from the workshop.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/21876/strategies-to-enhance-air-force-communication-with-internal-and-external-audiences", year = 2016, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Transportation Research Board and National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine", title = "Incorporating Reliability Performance Measures into Operations and Planning Modeling Tools: Reference Material", abstract = "TRB\u2019s second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) Reliability Project L04 report titled Incorporating Reliability Performance Measures into Operations and Planning Modeling Tools: Reference Material that discusses the activities required to develop operational models to address the needs of the L04 research project. This report also discusses the underlying methodologies of the simulation tools developed in the L04 project: the Trajectory Processor and the Scenario Manager.The SHRP 2 Reliability Project L04 also produced a report titled Incorporating Reliability Performance Measures in Operations and Planning Modeling Tools Application Guidelines, which provides an overview of the methodology and tools that can be applied to existing microsimulation and mesoscopic modeling software in order to assess travel time reliability.The SHRP 2 Reliability Project L04 also produced a report titled Incorporating Reliability Performance Measures in Operations and Planning Modeling Tools, which explores the underlying conceptual foundations of travel modeling and traffic simulation, and provides practical means of generating realistic reliability performance measures using network simulation models.Software Disclaimer: These materials are offered as is, without warranty or promise of support of any kind, either expressed or implied. Under no circumstance will the National Academy of Sciences or the Transportation Research Board (collectively \u201cTRB\u201d) be liable for any loss or damage caused by the installation or operation of these materials. TRB makes no representation or warranty of any kind, expressed or implied, in fact or in law, including without limitation, the warranty of merchantability or the warranty of fitness for a particular purpose, and shall not in any case be liable for any consequential or special damages.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/22258/incorporating-reliability-performance-measures-into-operations-and-planning-modeling-tools-reference-material", year = 2014, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Research Council", title = "Behavioral and Social Science: 50 Years of Discovery", isbn = "978-0-309-03588-0", abstract = "In 1933, President Herbert Hoover commissioned the \"Ogburn Report,\" a comprehensive study of social trends in the United States. Fifty years later, a symposium of noted social and behavioral scientists marked the report's anniversary with a book of their own from the Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education. The 10 chapters presented here relate the developments detailed in the \"Ogburn Report\" to modern social trends. This book discusses recent major strides in the social and behavioral sciences, including sociology, psychology, anthropology, economics, and linguistics.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/611/behavioral-and-social-science-50-years-of-discovery", year = 1986, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine", editor = "Christopher Edley, Jr. and Judith A. Koenig", title = "Evaluation of the Achievement Levels for Mathematics and Reading on the National Assessment of Educational Progress", isbn = "978-0-309-43817-9", abstract = "Since 1969, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) has been providing policymakers, educators, and the public with reports on academic performance and progress of the nation's students. The assessment is given periodically in a variety of subjects: mathematics, reading, writing, science, the arts, civics, economics, geography, U.S. history, and technology and engineering literacy. NAEP is given to representative samples of students across the U.S. to assess the educational progress of the nation as a whole.\nSince 1992, NAEP results have been reported in relation to three achievement levels: basic, proficient, and advanced. However, the use of achievement levels has provoked controversy and disagreement, and evaluators have identified numerous concerns. This publication evaluates the NAEP student achievement levels in reading and mathematics in grades 4, 8, and 12 to determine whether the achievement levels are reasonable, reliable, valid, and informative to the public, and recommends ways that the setting and use of achievement levels can be improved.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/23409/evaluation-of-the-achievement-levels-for-mathematics-and-reading-on-the-national-assessment-of-educational-progress", year = 2017, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Research Council", title = "Toward the Electronic Office", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/18507/toward-the-electronic-office", year = 1981, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine", editor = "Steve Olson and Karen M. Anderson", title = "Immigration as a Social Determinant of Health: Proceedings of a Workshop", isbn = "978-0-309-48217-2", abstract = "Since 1965 the foreign-born population of the United States has swelled from 9.6 million or 5 percent of the population to 45 million or 14 percent in 2015. Today, about one-quarter of the U.S. population consists of immigrants or the children of immigrants. Given the sizable representation of immigrants in the U.S. population, their health is a major influence on the health of the population as a whole. On average, immigrants are healthier than native-born Americans. Yet, immigrants also are subject to the systematic marginalization and discrimination that often lead to the creation of health disparities. To explore the link between immigration and health disparities, the Roundtable on the Promotion of Health Equity held a workshop in Oakland, California, on November 28, 2017. This summary of that workshop highlights the presentations and discussions of the workshop. \n", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/25204/immigration-as-a-social-determinant-of-health-proceedings-of-a", year = 2018, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" }