Translating career development research into practice has long been a challenge for both the education and workforce development communities.
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Co-design in action in the ITEST program
The attached ITEST Snapshot document provides an overview of the National Science Foundation's ITEST Program. The data for this report was derived from NSF's Award Search database, and project survey data collected by STELAR (the New Project Survey and Annual ITEST Survey).
The 2022 PI meeting was held as a thematic working meeting focused on field building and experience sharing.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is permeating the world around us, changing the ways we live, work, and learn.
This informative report extends prior reports on the Future of Work to address issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion in light of recent historical events.
This report provides an overview of the ITEST portfolio's current projects. The information included was curated with new ITEST proposal writers in mind so that you can become more familiar with the program and current project trends.
STELAR submitted the attached paper in conjunction with our participation in a poster session held for NSF-grantees at the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) annual conference.
This framework identifies 10 foundational career competency areas correlated to characteristics of future work at the Human Technology Frontier and what thought leaders in the field believe successful workers in those environments need to know and be able to do.
The attached document provides an overview of the National Science Foundation's ITEST Program.
ITEST Data Brief Volume 5, Issue 1, August 2018. This data brief explores the partnerships that ITEST projects engage in for project planning and design, implementation, dissemination, and evaluation.
The proliferation of new technologies has changed the way we live, learn, and work.
The attached document provides an overview of the National Science Foundation's ITEST Program.
ITEST Data Brief Volume 3, Issue 4, January 2017. This data brief explores the strategies that ITEST projects use to communicate their findings, including the products they create, where they disseminate their work, and what audiences they reach.
From 2006 to 2012, Florida Statute §1003.4156 required middle school students to complete electronic personal education planners (ePEPs) before promotion to ninth grade.
For over a decade, the National Science Foundation’s Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) program has funded researchers and educators to build an understanding of best practices, contexts, and processes contributing to K-12 students’ motivation and participation
The ITEST program has enabled creativity, experimentation, and cultural responsiveness in STEM education and workforce development and broadened participation in STEM initiatives to Native American communities, underresourced urban communities, girls, and populations underrepresented in STEM
This paper, based on a review of over 200 publications related to approximately 110 ITEST projects, seeks to respond to the broadening participation question in the ITEST solicitation. While all ITEST projects include “broadening participation” as a central goal, we found that publications
This synthesis paper highlights projects funded by the National Science Foundation’s Innovating Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) grant program that are either primarily designed to support teacher learning or that incorporate teacher learning in a significant way.
This synthesis is based on a review of publications from ITEST projects, specifically relating to STEM learning games and game design experiences for students.
This report presents important takeaways from a one-day National Science Foundation (NSF)-supported Forum, “Next Generation STEM Learning for All,” organized by Education Development Center (EDC)
ITEST Data Brief Volume 3, Issue 1, March 2016
This data brief provides information on the composition of ITEST project participants, what activities they engage in, in what settings, and what projects feel contributes to their project's success based on projects submissions to the 2014-2015
The attached document provides an overview of NSF's ITEST Program from 2003-2015.
The attached document provides a snapshot of NSF's ITEST Program from 2003-2014.
ITEST Data Brief Volume 2, Issue 1, January 2015
This paper aims to share EDC’s learnings from developing and implementing this method including addressing issues of trust between youth and adult team members, appropriately acknowledging youth contributions, balancing the roles of mentors and adult design partners, and making dynamic
The STELAR Brochure is a two-page document that contains detailed information about STELAR's goals and the services STELAR provides to the ITEST community.
The ITEST Youth Convening Team has compiled a bibliography of publications addressing issues in the youth motivation and STEM fields.
This paper summarizes lessons learned from eight years of hosting a national resource center for the ITEST (Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers) program, funded by the National Science Foundation.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) program provides a unique opportunity to assess a broad spectrum of professional development projects that share key characteristics but were designed to meet distinct
This article is part of a special issue of the Journal of Technology and Teacher Education (JTATE). It introduces and summarizes how the six articles describe specific ITEST teacher development projects, provide portraits of these projects, and address important themes that cross ITEST
The WGBH Educational Foundation and the Education Development Center, Inc. collaborated to create a series of six individual ITEST project profile videos and multiple video clips submitted by projects and edited by WGBH.
The focus of this literature review is out-of-school time activities in informal environments, a “vastly understudied” set of experiences (Carnegie Council on Adolescent Development 1992), and the role these experiences can have in shaping the direction of youth to pursue
This report outlines the discussions and outcomes of the Advancing Research on Youth Motivation in STEM Convening held at Boston College (Chestnut Hill, MA) in September 2011.
In today's world of high accountability, strong evidence on intended outcomes is key to building credibility and replicability of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) programs. This primer, for program directors/managers, educators and others
This report on a webcast hosted by the ITEST Learning Resource Center identifies resources and key success strategies for engaging girls in STEM, offered by an expert panel of speakers from the ITEST community, private sector and research and policy
The ITEST Small Working Group on Computational Thinking (CT) has completed its White Paper titled: Computational Thinking for Youth. The paper aims to describe what computational thinking looks like when practiced by youth in ITEST and
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The world is changing rapidly and so too are the career opportunities available. How can we best support the career development of youth so that they can take full advantage of what the world has to offer? What influences career direction? What elements shaped our own career path?
The National Science Foundation published NSF 23-115, “Advancing Microelectronics Education” in May 2023 in response to the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022 (CHIPS Act).
On June 30th STELAR introduced an informative report that extends prior reports on the Future of Work to address issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion in light of recent historical events.
Dr. Melissa K. Demetrikopoulos of the Program development and Evaluation Institute for Biomedical Policy shares her presentation "How and When to Engage an Evaluator" followed by Dr. Karen Gareis of Goodman Research Group on "Role of the Evaluator on NSF ITEST Grants."
On May 16, STELAR hosted National Science Foundation Program Officers for part two of a three part webinar series on the new Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) Program’s Solicitation.
On May 9th, STELAR hosted National Science Foundation Program Officers for part one of a three part webinar series on the new Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Tea
On August 27, NSF program directors presented and answered questions about this DCL and how it relateed to each of the EHR programs included.
NSF program directors held two previous sessions and recordings are available of this series of webinars.
On Thursday, July 29, STELAR staff member Sarah MacGillivray presented during a poster session held for NSF-grantees at the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) annual conference.
On June 30, STELAR hosted National Science Foundation Program Officers for an informative webinar on the Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) Program’s Solicitation (NSF 19-583).
On June 29, NSF program directors held the second of a series of webinars to present and answer questions about this DCL.
On June 28, STELAR hosted authors Jessica Juliuson, Joyce Malyn-Smith, Sarah MacGillvray, and Clara McCurdy-Kirlis as they presented an overview of the competencies for their publication
On April 27, NSF program directors held the first of a series of webinars to present and answer questions about this DCL. This initial webinar featured the following presentations:
On Thursday, April 15, 3:00 pm STELAR hosted the third webinar in our Proposal Development Course series: Research & Evaluation.
NSF ITEST PI & Evaluator Summit 2019
Living, Learning, and Working in the Digital Age
Thursday, June 13 - Friday, June 14, 2019
Westin Alexandria, 400 Courthouse Square, Alexandria, VA
NSF ITEST PI & Evaluator Summit 2019
Living, Learning, and Working in the Digital Age
Thursday, June 13 - Friday, June 14, 2019
Westin Alexandria, 400 Courthouse Square, Alexandria, VA
This presentation was provided by NSF DRL Program Officers Mike Steele, Alejandra Sorto, and Amy Wilson-Lopez during the 2019 NSF ITEST PI & Evaluator Summit. The presentation provides a detailed update of changes made to the 2019 ITEST Solicitation (NSF 19-583).
NSF ITEST PI & Evaluator Summit 2019
Living, Learning, and Working in the Digital Age
Thursday, June 13 - Friday, June 14, 2019
Westin Alexandria, 400 Courthouse Square, Alexandria, VA
On Thursday, June 20, 3:00-4:30 pm STELAR hosted National Science Foundation Program Officers Alejandra Sorto and Amy Wilson-Lopez for an informative webinars on the newly-released 2019 Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) Program Solicitation (NSF 19-583).
NSF ITEST PI & Evaluator Summit 2019
Living, Learning, and Working in the Digital Age
Thursday, June 13 - Friday, June 14, 2019
Westin Alexandria, 400 Courthouse Square, Alexandria, VA
On May 28, 2019 STELAR hosted National Science Foundation Program Officers Michael Steele, Alejandra Sorto, and Amy Wilson-Lopez for an informative webinar on the newly-released 2019 Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and
STELAR hosted NSF Program Officer Robert Russell and Einstein Fellow Brenda Carpenter in the final webinar on the 2018 EAGER Maker Su
On Wednesday, May 30, STELAR hosted NSF ITEST Program Officers Robert Russell and Brian Smith for an informative session on the 2018 Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) Program
In this webinar, learn about individual and group strategies that can help to support your work - current and future.
Webinar 3 - Research & Evaluation
During this webinar we will examine the challenges in designing assessments and measuring cognitive and non-cognitive learning outcomes in a maker-based project.
This webinar will discuss how making looks like across different settings such as higher education, informal learning environments, and schools with high and low tech.
Make the Force be With You: Workforce Development through Making
Day 1 Reflections and Day 2 Orientation, Sarita Pillai, STELAR PI
National Science Foundation Remarks, Sylvia James, Acting Deputy Assistant Director, Directorate for Education and Human Resources, NSF
Equity and Access at the Human-Technology Frontier: Three Perspectives from the Field
On Thursday, February 22, STELAR presented the third of four webinars in our series exploring the educational and social implications of living, learning and working in a future driven by technology.
Computational Thinking and CT have become a buzz word and buzz acronym in schools and education systems worldwide, yet is still a phrase that invokes confusion and debate. This 2-part webinar unpacked CT and discussed it in the context of non-CS disciplinary learning.
On Thursday, January 25, the STELAR authors of Building the Foundational Skills Needed for Success in Work at the Human-Technology Frontier
STELAR ITEST Summit 2017 Keynote Panel
Career development theory: From theory to practice in ITEST projects
Facilitator: Joyce Malyn-Smith
Keynote: David Blustein, Professor, Boston College
ITEST panelists:
Kimberly Scott
STELAR ITEST Summit Day 2 Keynote Panel, Q&A Session featuring:
STELAR ITEST Summit 2017 Day 2 Keynote Panel, Kimberly A. Scott
STELAR ITEST Summit 2017 Day 2 Keynote Panel, David Blustein
On Wednesday, June 28, STELAR hosted National Science Foundation Program Officers David Haury and Robert Russell for an informative session on the 2017 Innovative Technology Experiences for
On Thursday, July 28, STELAR hosted a special webinar on behalf of the National Science Foundation Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR) highlighting funding opportunities within EHR especially aimed
With the resurgence in interest in Career Technical Education (CTE), this webinar provides information about the current state of CTE, its reach, impact, and the current trends in policy and practice at the state and federal levels.
NSF ITEST projects are an ideal testbed for researching what it takes to create robust pathways leading towards high-demand technology-centered careers.
On Thursday, November 3, STELAR hosted NSF Program Officers Bob Russell and Erick Jones as they presented a webinar on National Science Foundation funding for R&D education projects funded through the
NSF Town Hall featuring David Haury, Evan Heit, Arlene de Strulle, Rob Ochsendorf, and Tasha Inniss
Plenary by Dr. Valerie Purdie-Vaughns, Associate Professor, Columbia University
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NSF ITEST Program Principal Investigator's Meeting
Innovating Equitable STEM Learning for the Future Technological Workforce
May 6-7, 2024 - Alexandria, Virginia
The 2022 Annual ITEST Principal Investigator Meeting took place from November 1–3.
The STEM Learning and Research Center, resource center for the NSF ITEST Program, will host our annual meeting this fall.
Join your colleagues for two days of programming designed to encourage collaboration, learning, and discussion. During the summit active ITEST projects will share their successes, challenges, and lessons learned from the ITEST program, and discuss implications for a national community of
On behalf of the National Science Foundation, STELAR hosted more than 90 ITEST projects at the 2018 Summit.
2018 STELAR ITEST Principal Investigator and Evaluator Summit
Equity and Access at the Human-Technology Frontier
The STELAR ITEST PI & Evaluator Summit is an annual opportunity for ITEST Principal Investigators (PIs) and evaluators to come together and share successes, challenges, and lessons learned from the ITEST program.
The STELAR ITEST PI & Evaluator Summit was held on Monday and Tuesday, May 2-3, 2016, at the Westin Arlington Gateway in Arlington, VA.
STELAR hosted the NSF Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) Principal Investigator & Evaluator Convening on Tuesday, August 19, and Wednesday, August 20, 2014, at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, DC.
News
This document is STELAR’s high-level summary of the required elements of your ITEST proposal. This is not intended to replace a careful review of both the solicitation as well as the PAPPG, but rather provides a checklist of all of the components to ensure each is addressed...
Blog
NSF released the ITEST solicitation (NSF 22-585) on April 14, 2022, to cover proposals submitted between 2022-2024. STELAR has reviewed changes in this solicitation from the previous (19-583) and share some of our takeaways...
The “Solicitation Specific Review Criteria” section of your proposal should draw out the elements of your intervention design that has been informed by empirically-backed approaches to leverage student strengths...
Opportunities
Looking for an evaluator for your proposal or project? Need specific research expertise on your team? Use our People Connector Directory to find people who have skills you need, or to list yourself as a resource to others.
Instruments
The Management Information System (MIS) is designed to collect information from ITEST projects shortly after their award is granted from NSF (to provide baseline data) and annually thereafter at the end of each project year. Each question has been designed to provide information that will