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... enterprise in the United States is critical to pose not only significant challenges but also opportunities addressing vital policy questions for the nation. Just some for its efforts to monitor STI activities in the United States.
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... for revised, refocused, and newly developed indicators of The panel also identified a number of ways in which STI activities that would enable NCSES to respond to chang NCSES could improve its current STI indicators program ing policy concerns. In carrying out its charge, the panel with relatively little new investment in original data colreviewed STI indicators from the United States as well as lection.
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... remaining recommendations offer four strategic pathways The panel recommends that NCSES work with other for development: working with other agencies to share data federal agencies bilaterally and in interagency statistical and link databases to produce indicators that would not committees to share data, link databases where feasible, and be possible if the agencies worked independently; using produce products that would not be possible if the agencies existing grants and fellowship programs to support relevant worked independently. The use of data from outside the methodological research; making data holdings available to federal system, where appropriate, should be part of this researchers on a timely basis for substantive work on new process.
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... tion, along with the other strategic and specific recommenda Outside researchers can help NCSES address meth- tions in the panel's report, NCSES will be well positioned odological issues entailed in improving the accuracy and to carry out its role from the America COMPETES Reautimeliness of new and revised STI indicators and evaluating thorization Act of 2010 to "collect, acquire, analyze, report, the usefulness of new kinds of data for indicator production. and disseminate statistical data related to the science and External researchers can also help NCSES develop new engineering enterprise in the United States and other nations and improved indicators that are relevant to policy on such that is relevant and useful to practitioners, researchers, poli cymakers, and the public."
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