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Drones in Alaska Elementary Curriculum

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This collection of three teacher's manuals, five videos, and one career exploration guide were created with and for Alaska Native communities as part of the Drone Research and Opportunities for Native Elementary Students project, funded by NSF I-TEST Grant Nos. 1850561 (Univ. of Alaska Fairbanks) and 1850556 (Univ. of Alaska Anchorage). The Drones in Alaska base curriculum has three versions, one with lexicon in Sugs'tun, one with lexicon in Lower Tanana Athabascan, and one with lexicon in Lower Koyukon Athabascan. The Teacher's manual for the Drones in Alaska base curriculum is applicable to

Voices Against Violence

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Helping Students, Parents, and School Staff Speak Up No community is safe from the devastating effects of bullying and school violence—but you can learn to prevent these threats. One of the most powerful steps a school community can take to prevent violence is to teach young people and adults to be active bystanders who take positive steps when conflict arises. It’s not always clear what bystanders should do when faced with violent or potentially violent situations. Voices Against Violence can guide youth and adults on how to intervene safely and effectively. Voices Against Violence contains

Vocational Identity Status Assessment

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This study reports the development and evaluation of the Vocational Identity Status Assessment (VISA), which is derived from established conceptual models and includes career exploration, commitment, and reconsideration dimensions.

Qualitative Sketch Maps

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This paper reports the use sketch maps and qualitative Geographic Information Systems to document the changing perceptions of 43 youth aged 14–18 during their participation in a university program.

MATE ITEST Scale-Up Grant Year 2 Annual Report

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Scaling Up Success: Using MATE’s ROV Competitions to Build a Collaborative Learning Community that Fuels the Ocean STEM Workforce Pipeline Grant Year 2 Annual Report, as submitted to www.research.gov

MATE ITEST Scale-Up Grant Year 1 Annual Report

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Scaling Up Success: Using MATE’s ROV Competitions to Build a Collaborative Learning Community that Fuels the Ocean STEM Workforce Pipeline Grant Year 1 Annual Report, as submitted to www.research.gov

MATE post-competition surveys

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This pdf contains the following 4 survey instruments: - Student - Judge/Volunteer - Parent - Instructor

Conversational Programming: Exploring Interactive Program Analysis

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Our powerful computers help very little in debugging the program we have so we can change it into the program we want. We introduce Conversational Programming as a way to harness our computing power to inspect program meaning through a combination of partial program execution and semantic program annotation. A programmer in our approach interactively selects highly autonomous “agents” in a program world as conversation topics and then changes the world to explore the potential behaviors of a selected agent in different scenarios. In this way, the programmer proactively knows how their code

ARC-REESE Criteria & Guidelines for Rating the Methodological Rigor of Educational Research in STEM

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ARC was asked by NSF to conduct a pilot project to review the research methodologies employed by a sample of projects funded by the REESE (Research and Evaluation on Education in Science and Engineering) program. ARC convened an expert panel in consultation with NSF to develop standards and a rubric for rating the rigor of REESE projects’ methodologies, with the ultimate goal of reporting on the methodologies employed in the REESE program overall. Panelists concurred that the guidelines provided in the American Educational Research Association’s (2006) Standards for Reporting on Empirical

ITEST Newsletter: Issue 3, Fall 2006

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Learn more about the ways that ITEST projects use hands-on activities with educators and youth to promote scientific inquiry. The ITEST LRC Newsletter, Issue 3/Fall 2006 includes this feature story plus success stories from three ITEST projects, resources, and LRC news and events.

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