Welcome to the ITEST Resource Library
The curricula, instruments, and publications included in this library were submitted by ITEST projects and are relevant to the work of the NSF ITEST Program. Use the filters to the right to find relevant materials. A PDF and/or URL to the original resource are included within the resource description whenever possible. In some cases, full text publications are located behind publishers’ paywalls and a fee or membership to the third party site may be required for access.
Please note: permission for the use of instruments must be requested through the publisher or author listed in each entry, and cannot be granted by STELAR.
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EcoScience Works: Teacher Professional Development Through a Collaborative Curriculum Project – an Example of TPACK in Maine
PublicationsEcoScienceWorks (ESW) is an ecology curriculum that includes targeted simulations and a code block programming challenge developed through an NSF-ITEST grant.
Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Occupations: A Visual Essay
PublicationsUsing May 2009 data from the Occupational Employment Statistics (OES) program, this visual essay takes a closer look at STEM occupations.
Role Model Videos
Curricular MaterialsThrough these role model videos, professionals' real world views and application of math show high school students just how relevant math is to their futures. Filmed on location, professionals tell students about how they use math in their careers and what math meant to them in high school. The role model videos are an important aspect of the"Scaling Up STEM Learning with the VCL" model. Teacher participants in this ITEST project were required to screen videos from this resource and engage their students in discussion about real world use of math and potential interest in STEM occupations. The
ComputerScienceOnline.org: Educational Resources, Degrees, and Career Tracks
Curricular MaterialsComputerScienceOnline.org provides students and lifelong learners with educational, career and developmental information related to the world of computer science.
Connecting Informal STEM Experiences to Career Choices: Identifying the Pathway
PublicationsThe 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 STEM careers.
Advancing Research on Youth Motivation in STEM: A Report on the NSF ITEST Convening
PublicationsThis 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. The convening was hosted by the ITEST Learning Resource Center (LRC) at Education Development Center, Inc. (EDC). The Convening focused on two overarching questions: (1) What is currently known about motivation around STEM for underrepresented youth? and (2) What can be done to cultivate new research on STEM motivation for underrepresented youth? It brought together youth participants and principal investigators (PIs)
ITEST Management Information System
InstrumentsThe 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 inform the state of ITEST: who participates, how often, in what kinds of activities, with what objectives and targeted outcomes. The baseline, annual, and final versions of the Spring 2014 MIS are available for preview as PDFs on the right sidebar.
ITEST Management Information System (MIS) 2012: Final Report Describing Active ITEST Projects
PublicationsThe fourth annual MIS report, a program-wide summary of ITEST projects, was released in January 2013. This report, prepared with data from the fourth annual ITEST Management Information System (MIS) administration in 2012, describes who ITEST projects served, how many participants they served, the structure of the project, their intended outcomes, and how those outcomes were measured.
ITEST Management Information System (MIS) 2010: Final Report Describing Active ITEST Projects
PublicationsThe second annual MIS report, a program-wide summary of ITEST projects, was released in July 2011. This report, prepared with data from the second annual ITEST Management Information System (MIS) administration in 2010, describes who ITEST projects served, how many participants they served, the structure of the project, their intended outcomes, and how those outcomes were measured.
ITEST Data Brief: ITEST Participants - Reaching Underserved and Underrepresented Groups
PublicationsITEST Data Brief Volume 1, Issue 3, June 2012 The National Science Foundation ITEST Program explicitly states its commitment to focus on students from groups underserved and underrepresented in STEM and ICT-intensive careers. The ITEST Management Information System (MIS) asked projects to identify characteristics of their student participants, and this Data Brief explores that information to see whether and to what degree projects are working with underserved and underrepresented students.