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ITEST projects are presenting at conferences around the country this spring and summer. Details about where and when you can see your colleagues' work are included in this handout for your reference. Conferences include NARST, AERA, ICQI and ISTE!

STELAR had the opportunity to speak with Jason Painter (North Carolina State University) about the

The Collective Self-Esteem Scale assesses individual differences in collective, rather than personal, self-esteem, with four subscales (membership esteem, public collective self-esteem, private collective self-esteem, and importance to identity).

The Twenty Statements Test (TST) is an instrument used to measure self concept.  It was devised in 1954 by Manfred Kuhn & Thomas McPartland, with the aim of finding a standardized way to measure assumptions and self-attitudes.

The Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) was introduced to the education research field as a theoretical framework for understanding teacher knowledge required for effective technology integration.

The STEM Career Interest Survey (STEM-CIS) measures interest in STEM classes and careers, particularly in middle school students.  Leveraging social cognitive career theory, the STEM-CIS contains four subscales: science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.

The School Perceptions Questionnaire (SPQ) Scale is a 13-item scale, each scored on a 5-point Likert scale, that assesses the extent to which a student's self-esteem is connected with and dependent upon academic outcomes (also called selective valuing or domain identification in the self-concept

The Science Teachers' Pedagogical Discontentment Scale is an instrument that measures the discontentment that arises in teachers as they recognize a mismatch between their own pedagogical beliefs and goals and their actual classroom practices.

The Middle School Self-Efficacy Scale is a measure of career decision-making self-efficacy; career decision-making outcome expectancies, intentions, and goals; math and science self-efficacy; and math and science outcome expectancies, intentions, and goals.

The Teacher Beliefs Interview is a semi-structured, 7-item protocol designed to elicit beginning secondary science teachers' beliefs about teaching, learning, and students in mathematics and science classes.

The Science Teaching Efficacy Belief Instrument (STEBI) is used in many studies to measure science teaching self-efficacy and outcome expectancy in preservice elementary teachers.  This 25-item instrument uses a 5-point Likert scale.