On-Site Research to Improve the Quality of Education Statistics

该奖项将美国统计协会题为“现场研究提高教育统计质量”的项目延长一年。随后几年的计划是与人口普查局和劳工统计局进行的类似现场研究项目合并。该计划于1986年在国家教育统计中心发起，将高级研究员和助理带到该中心，为期最长一年。其广泛的目标是帮助弥合学术学者和政府科学家之间的差距，让研究员和同事接触到可能只在大规模联邦统计机构遇到的方法学问题和政策问题，并让政府社会科学家接触到可能适用于他们的工作的新理论发展。居住在中心允许研究员和同事进行研究，如果不能随时访问该计划提供的数据资源，这些研究将是困难的，如果不是不可能的话。

This award extends for one year the American Statistical Association project entitled "On-Site Research to Improve the Quality of Education Statistics". The plan for subsequent years is to effect a merger with similar on-site research programs conducted at the Bureau of the Census and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The program, which was initiated at the National Center of Education Statistics in 1986, brings senior research fellows and associates to the Center for periods of up to one year. Its broadbased goal is to help bridge the gap between academic scholars and governmental scientists by exposing the fellows and associates to methodological problems and policy issues likely to be encountered only in a large scale Federal statistical agency and by exposing government social scientists to new theoretical developments which might have application to their work. Residence at the Center allows fellows and associates to carry out research that would be difficult if not impossible to do without ready access to its data resources which the program provides.