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Purpose and Scope of Discipline Assessments
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... This report summarizes the results of these three pilot assessment projects and also incorporates the principal findings of a workshop that was held to critique and help integrate the results of the panels' work. PURPOSE AND SCOPE OF DISCIPLINE ASSESSMENTS The purpose of the NRC's discipline assessments is to establish new research goals and priorities, to detect incipient problems that need to be addressed, and to compare progress with previously established goals and priorities.
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