Author: Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education

At a time when scientific and technological competence is vital to the nation's future, the weak performance of U.S. students in science reflects t...

A high percentage of defense systems fail to meet their reliability requirements. This is a serious problem for the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD...

Population surveys traditionally collect information from respondents about their circumstances, behaviors, attitudes, and other characteristics. I...

Eyewitnesses play an important role in criminal cases when they can identify culprits. Estimates suggest that tens of thousands of eyewitnesses mak...

The forested land in the United States is an asset that is owned and managed not only by federal, state, and local governments, but also by familie...

The National Children's Study (NCS) was authorized by the Children's Health Act of 2000 and is being implemented by a dedicated Program Office in t...

People's bonds, associations and networks - as well as the civil, political, and institutional characteristics of the society in which they live - ...

The National Science Foundation developed the Science of Science and Innovation Policy program (SciSIP) in 2006 to fund basic and applied research ...

It has become trite to observe that increases in health care costs have become unsustainable. How best for policy to address these increases, howev...

The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) is the nation's primary resource for advancing scientific research, development, and evaluation on crime an...

Science, engineering, and technology permeate nearly every facet of modern life and hold the key to solving many of humanity's most pressing curren...

Using Science as Evidence in Public Policy encourages scientists to think differently about the use of scientific evidence in policy making. This r...

Scientific research has enabled America to remain at the forefront of global competition for commercially viable technologies and other innovations...

More and more young people are learning about science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) in a wide variety of afterschool, summer, an...

The undergraduate years are a turning point in producing scientifically literate citizens and future scientists and engineers. Evidence from resear...

Over the last three decades, there have been fundamental shifts in the electricity system, including the growing adoption of clean distributed gene...

Responding to climate change will entail massive socio-emotional and behavioral changes. Translating policies, investments, or built infrastructure...

This proceedings summarizes the presentations and discussions at the Workshop on the 2020 Census Demographic and Housing Characteristics File, held...

An accurate measure of poverty is necessary to fully understand how the economy is performing across all segments of the population and to assess t...

Coal mine disasters in the United States are relatively rare events; many of the roughly 50,000 miners underground will never have to evacuate a mi...

The global scientific and policy community now unequivocally accepts that human activities cause global climate change. Although information on cli...

Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) are cultural achievements that reflect our humanity, power our economy, and constitute fun...

Research shows that that children learn science and engineering subjects best by engaging from an early age in the kinds of practices used by real ...