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NSF Webinar for Dear Colleague Letter (NSF 23-115): Advancing Microelectronics Education

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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). This Dear Colleague Letter (DCL) encourages submission of proposals for projects that will excite, motivate and prepare students for

NSF Webinar: 2023 ITEST Solicitation Overview

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On May 25, 2023, STELAR hosted a webinar on the Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) Program’s Solicitation (NSF 22-585). During this webinar, ITEST Program Officers Alicia Santiago, Leilah Lyons, and Robert Russell reviewed the goals of the ITEST program and

STELAR webinar - ITEST PI Panel: Scale-up Experiences, Successes & Challenges

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The second webinar in support of encouraging Scaling, Expanding and Iterating Innovations (SEI) proposals invited back ITEST Principal Investigators to share their successes and challenges on scaling their work in the ITEST 2022 PI Meeting. The presentations was followed by a Q&A with PIs

STELAR Webinar - NSF EPSCoR/ITEST

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The National Science Foundation’s Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) Program supports applied research and development focused on increasing preK-12 students' interest in careers in information and communication technology and STEM through innovative technology-based

Adapting Curriculum and PD to Scale in New Regions | ITEST PI Meeting 2022

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With demonstrated growth in student STEM content knowledge, teacher STEM awareness, and teacher self-efficacy teaching integrated STEM, the Teachers and Researchers Advancing Integrated Lessons in STEM (TRAILS) project received an award to scale up their work to reach 10,000 students. In this clip

Collecting Sufficient Data for a Scale Up Award | ITEST PI Meeting 2022

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The Drone Research Opportunities for Native Elementary Students (DRONES) project is preparing for a potential scale up by expanding their research practices and understanding how they can scale their work.

Defining Scaling for your Project | ITEST PI Meeting 2022

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ITEST Scaling, Expanding, and Iterating Innovations (SEI) projects “broaden the implementation and research of an innovation at a significant scale of five to ten times greater than the original implementation.” The Expanding Socio-Environmental Science Investigations with Geospatial Technologies in

Determining Sufficient Evidence to Scale| ITEST PI Meeting 2022

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The Youth Astronomy Network (YouthAstroNet) project shares how they knew they had sufficient evidence to apply for a Scaling, Expanding, and Iterating Innovations (SEI) award. They identified 34 different instructional experiences the students might have had ran a regression model and factor

Conceptualizing a Scale-up Proposal | ITEST PI Meeting 2022

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NSF Program Office Arlene de Strulle poses questions to guide researchers' proposal conceptualization for an ITEST Scaling, Expanding, and Iterating Innovations (SEI) award.

Toward a Unifying Social Cognitive Theory of Career and Academic Interest, Choice, and Performance

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This article presents a social cognitive framework for understanding three intricately linked aspects of career development: (a) the formation and elaboration of career-relevant interests, (b) selection of academic and career choice options, and (c) performance and persistence in educational and occupational pursuits. The framework, derived primarily from Bandura′s (1986) general social cognitive theory, emphasizes the means by which individuals exercise personal agency in the career development process, as well as extra-personal factors that enhance or constrain agency. In particular, we

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