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An analysis of the scope and quality of the current supply of educational software, and of the available sources of information on educational software
This report presents an analysis of the scope and quality of the current supply of educational software, as well as analysis of the information sources available to educational software acquisition.
Date:
September 30, 1987
Creator:
Bialo, Ellen R. & Sivin, Jay P.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Support for educational technology R & D: the federal role
This report examines the history of the United States Federal Government support for education technology research and development. The report identifies funding level for several civilian and military Federal agencies over time period, nature of programs and projects supported, six case studies of illustrative R&D program, and factors policy recommendations.
Date:
September 30, 1987
Creator:
Blaschke, Charles; Hunter, Beverly & Zucker, Andrew
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The context for exploring workplace monitoring
This report describes the history of monitoring work and the legal framework which applies to employee privacy rights and associate4d issues of worker protection.
Date:
September 26, 1986
Creator:
Deutsch, Steven
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The international context of labor-management relations: implications for workplace monitoring
This report explores some of the international developments and notes contrasts with the United States, and some potential lessons with regard to managing the new technology systems of Labor relations and issues relevant to workplace monitoring.
Date:
September 26, 1986
Creator:
Deutsch, Steven
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Psychophysiological monitoring: possibilities and prospects
This report describes the present, near, and long term the evolving capabilities for monitoring and interpreting psychophysiological signals and in particular the Event Related Brain Potential (ERP) with particular emphasis on such ERP components as the P300.
Date:
September 1987
Creator:
Donchin, Emanuel
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
A review of the status of technology training for teachers
This report discusses the important role of the use of computers in American education. It also discusses teachers training and their role in the viability of computers in education.
Date:
September 22, 1987
Creator:
Glenn, Allen D. & Carrier, Carol A.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Federal tax policy and infrastructure financing: a report to the Office of Technology Assessment, U.S. Congress
This report starts out by discussing in details the Tax Reform Act of 1986 and its impact on local construction, it provides statistical analysis of the effects of the Tax reform Act, it discusses innovative infrastructure financing techniques, finally federal infrastructure policy options.
Date:
September 13, 1989
Creator:
Graham, D. W. & Shinn, Paul L.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Science in the steady state: the changing research university: contractor's report
This report is divided into three main parts. The first part considers the underlying notion of interpreting science in systems terms and sketches the analytic categories necessary for that re conceptualization. Part two draws on face to face interviews with scientists to examine the possible consequences of the shift to steady state science. Part three offers a set of issues for policy and research and critically examines the idea of a steady state for science.
Date:
September 1987
Creator:
Hackett, Edward J.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Evaluation of effects of the quality of care of selected alternatives for paying physicians under the Medicare program
This report tries to anticipate the kinds of effects on the quality of personal health care services that would result from each of several alternative ways of paying for physician's services to Medicare patients.
Date:
September 1985
Creator:
Hammons, Glenn T.; Brook, Robert H. & Newhouse, Joseph P.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Reform of Medicare physician payment policies: impact on magnetic resonance imaging technology
This report provides a brief description of the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), current research, safety and patient acceptance of the imaging technology. It discusses the current use of MRI, the medical evidence, current clinical applications and diffusion of MRI.
Date:
September 1985
Creator:
Iezzoni, Lisa I.; Grad, Oren & Moskowitz, Mark A.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Identifying potential scientists and engineers: an analysis of the high school-college transition, Report 2, Multivariate analysis of the high school class of 1982
This report describes the second part of the project that studied the science-oriented behaviors of students as they move through high school into college.
Date:
September 4, 1987
Creator:
Lee, Valerie E.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Persistance in higher S/E education: S/E baccalaureate to S/E doctorate productivity of U.S. baccalaureate-granting institutions
This report describes a study which purpose is to further analyze the BA to PhD pipeline data for the 170 institutions that have either been identified as highly productive institutions or institutions of special interest to policymakers and educational planners.
Date:
September 1987
Creator:
Maxfield, Betty D.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Physicians' payment and their prescription of laboratory tests: the effects on clinical laboratory services of selected alternatives for paying physicians under the Medicare program
This report discusses laboratory testing in light of physician payment methods under Medicare. The report focuses primarily on laboratory testing in the outpatient setting, assuming the impatient laboratory testing is covered by the DRG-based Prospective Payment System rates of Medicare.
Date:
September 1985
Creator:
Myers, Lois P.; Eisenberg, John M. & Pauly, Mark V.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
OTA Management Retreat
Report by the OTA staff development group at the Wye retreat.
Date:
September 27, 1984
Creator:
Naismith, Nancy
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Office of Technology Assessment List of Publications, September 1985
A catalog of Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) documents published through 1985.
Date:
September 1985
Creator:
Office of Technology Assessment
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Employee monitoring in other industrial democracies
This report explores how other advanced industrial democracies and some multi - national or international agencies are approaching workplace monitoring,.
Date:
September 1987
Creator:
Pipe, Russell & Westin, Alan F.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Educational technology: information networks, markets, and innovation
This report aims to provide an insight about reasons why educational markets are under-producing educational software, and what thoughtful, practical remedies can be employed to bring the production of educational software up to the socially desirable level.
Date:
September 1987
Creator:
Priest, W. C.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
An Experiment in Technology Policy-Making: Fifteen Years of the U.S. Office of Technology Assessment, September 30, 1987
This report discusses the history and function of the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) and how, by the year of publication, the OTA had become very beneficial to Members of the U.S. Congress.
Date:
September 30, 1987
Creator:
Procter, Mary E.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Office of Technology Assessment and Congressional Policymaking
This paper describes the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) and its relationship with Congress in developing technology-related policy.
Date:
September 1981
Creator:
Rowberg, Richard E.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Effectiveness of Drug Abuse Treatment: Implications for Controlling AIDS/HIV Infection
This Background Paper examines the evidence of the effectiveness of drug abuse treatment; it also evaluates the role that such treatment might play in reducing the spread of HIV. Because most intravenous drug users are not in treatment, the paper also examines other approaches to HIV prevention among this high-risk group.
Date:
September 1990
Creator:
Sisk, Jane E.; Hatziandreu, Evridiki J. & Hughes, Rita
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Technology Assessment Seminar
Summary of the Technology Assessment Seminar proceedings held on September 21 and 22, 1968, regarding the importance of technology assessment, development, and responsibility in an increasingly technology-dependent society. Attendees consisted of Members of Congress and various technology experts and scholars .
Date:
September 21, 1967
Creator:
U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Science, Research, and Development
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Electric power wheeling and dealing: technological considerations for increasing competition: volume II--contractor documents, part D.
This report discusses the assessment of survey of utilities' reactions to order to determine reactions to change the industry's competitive environment.
Date:
September 1988
Creator:
United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Perspectives on the role of science and technology in sustainable development
This report examines an array of sustainable development definitions and discusses their common elements.
Date:
September 1994
Creator:
United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library