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Technical Memoranda
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Adolescent Health
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OTA background papers
3
The Implications of Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Medical Technology
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Background paper; International differences in health care technology and costs
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AIDS-related issues
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Case Study Series
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Children's Mental Health: Problems and Services
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Child maltreatment in the United States: etiology, impact, and prevention
This report starts out with definitions of child abuse and neglect, then it discusses the manifestation, effect and costs of child abuse and neglect, short term and long term.
Date:
May 1987
Creator:
Dubowitz, Howard
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Healthy Children: Investing in the Future
This OTA assessment addresses the effectiveness and costs of selected strategies for promoting and maintaining the health of children and to identify strategies whose implementation could substantially improve children’s health or lower health care costs.
Date:
February 1988
Creator:
United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Children's Mental Health: Problems and Services: Background Paper
A background paper by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) over the mental health problems of children and adolescents and the need for appropriateness of mental health services.
Date:
December 1986
Creator:
United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Quarterly Report to the Technology Assessment Board, April 1 - June 30, 1988
This is a quarterly report detailing the budget and progress of the Office of Technology Assessment.
Date:
1988
Creator:
Office of Technology Assessment
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
A note on the strengths and weaknessess [sic] of using the CPS to estimate children's health insurance coverage
This report discusses the strengths and weaknesses of the Current Population Survey (CPS) relative to the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), the National Medical Care Expenditure Survey (NMCE), for the purpose of estimating the numbers of children with different types of health insurance.
Date:
February 1988
Creator:
Swartz, Katherine
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Health Technology Case Twenty-five: Technology and Learning Disabilities
A case study by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) that examines different types of technologies that are relevant to learning disabilities.
Date:
December 1983
Creator:
United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Quarterly Report to the Technology Assessment Board, January 1 - March 31, 1982
This is a quarterly report detailing the budget and progress of the Office of Technology Assessment.
Date:
1982
Creator:
Office of Technology Assessment
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Influences on development and innovation in educational technology
This report provides a look at the history of educational technology, including both successful and unsuccessful government and private enterprise projects during the past three decades. The report examines trends in technological factors and new technologies that will influence development of innovative educational hardware and software during the next five years.
Date:
December 14, 1987
Creator:
Brown, Dean; Kahn, Ted M. & Zauderer, Marvin M.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Quarterly Report to the Technology Assessment Board, July 1 - September 30, 1988
This is a quarterly report detailing the budget and progress of the Office of Technology Assessment.
Date:
1988
Creator:
Office of Technology Assessment
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Testing in American Schools: Asking the Right Questions
In this report, OTA places testing in its historical and policy context, examines the reasons for testing and the ways it is done, and identifies particular ways Federal policy affects the picture, The report also explores new approaches to testing that derive from modem technology and cognitive research.
Date:
February 1992
Creator:
United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Images of science: factors affecting the choice of science as a career
This report describes the dimensions of the problem this nation faces in producing enough scientists and engineers, it also attempt to describe how "images" of science may affect whether American students choose careers in science.
Date:
September 1987
Creator:
Fullilove, Robert E.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Occupational Training for Young People in the United Kingdom
The report discusses the problems of high unemployment among young people ages 16 through 19. This paper examines the youth training experiences of the United Kingdom over the last 30 years.
Date:
September 1995
Creator:
United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Quarterly Report to the Technology Assessment Board, July 1 - September 30, 1987
This is a quarterly report detailing the budget and progress of the Office of Technology Assessment.
Date:
1987
Creator:
Office of Technology Assessment
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Insider's Guide to OTA, January 1995
This guide is intended as an informal orientation to some aspects of life at the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA), and to answer some of the questions frequently asked about OTA. This guide was created in the hopes of acquainting new employees with the procedures, materials, information, and expertise that lie within OTA.
Date:
January 1995
Creator:
Office of Technology Assessment
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Insider's Guide to OTA
An informal orientation to the OTA. Addresses new employees' frequently asked questions; intended as a complimentary document to the official Employee Handbook.
Date:
January 1995
Creator:
Office of Technology Assessment
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Technology and Handicapped People
A study by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) that examines "specific factors that affect the research and development, evaluation, diffusion and marketing, delivery, use, and financing of technologies directly related to disabled people" (p. iii).
Date:
May 1982
Creator:
United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Trends and status of computers in schools: use in Chapter 1 programs and use with limited English proficient students
A report on computers in American Education: trends and status, use of educational technology, and the use of technology for students with limited English proficiency.
Date:
March 1987
Creator:
United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Implications of Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Medical Technology
A report by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) that analyzes the "feasibility, implications, and usefulness of cost-effectiveness and cost-benefit analysis in health care decisionmaking" (p. iii).
Date:
August 1980
Creator:
United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Mapping our genes: federal genome projects: How vast? How fast?: contractor reports, volume 1
This report discusses the research and technology efforts aimed at mapping and sequencing large portions or entire genomes. It includes the implication of technologies, social and ethical issues, applications in research biology and medicine etc.
Date:
February 1988
Creator:
United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Social Security Administration and information technology: special report
In this report, OTA examines the objectives and technical strategies embodied in the SMP and the progress that the Social Security Administration has made toward its implementation. The report calls attention to some general problems faced by both SSA and other Federal agencies that are increasingly dependent on communications and information technology in carrying out their missions.
Date:
October 1986
Creator:
United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Alternative approaches to developing a cadre of "teacher technologists"
This report discusses the use of technology in education of students K-12 and university.
Date:
March 1988
Creator:
Strange, J.H.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The impact of office automation on the quality of work life: policy implications
This report focuses only on policy implication of video display terminals (VDT) usage in the areas of composition and edition/correction. The rest of the paper presents a brief discussion of the problems resulting from VDT adoption and usage in the office workplace, and the policy implications of both primary and instrumental impacts as described earlier.
Date:
December 1984
Creator:
Ashford, Nicholas A.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Education and Technology: Future Visions
This paper summarizes the workshop discussion and contains the commissioned papers in their entirety. In June 1995, the contractors and a number of other prominent educators were invited to OTA for an all-day workshop to discuss these papers and the issues more broadly.
Date:
September 1995
Creator:
United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Politics, policy, and China's future course
This report starts out with an overview of China's politics, the post-Mao era. The report continues with China's policy evaluation.
Date:
May 1986
Creator:
Fingar, Thomas
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library