The Tennessee Technological University - STEM Majors for Rural Teaching (TTU - SMaRT) Noyce program has partnered closely with TTU's Millard Oakley STEM Center. IN this poster we describe how this mututally beneficial partnership has provided a low-stakes environment in which Noyce students gain authentic instrucitonal experiences, exposure to pedagogical innovations, menaingful interaction with practicing teachers, and early integrations with the local STEM teaching community. This partnership has also enabled the STEM Center to offer more outreach opportunities than it otherwise could. Lessons developed by scholars have contributed to a 'library' of standards-based activities that have also broadened the scope of what can be offered.

Affordances of a Noyce Program -STEM Center partnership

The Next Generation Physics Science and Everyday Thinking (NGP) curriculum materials [1] were developed to give students learning experiences that integrate all three dimensions of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) [2]. Analysis of a subset of the materials with EQUIP rubric [3] confirmed this alignment and integration. However, analysis of the test bank questions that accompany the materials (using the 3D-LAP [4]) revealed that most items being used for assessment did not integrate the three dimensions. We are therefore developing assessment tasks that follow the pattern of NGP activities in integrating all three dimensions. In this presentation, we will describe the path that led us to this point, the process we are using to develop these assessment tasks, and preliminary results.

[1] https://nextgenpet.activatelearning.com
[2] NGSS Lead States. (2013). Next Generation Science Standards: For States, By
States. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
[3] https://www.nextgenscience.org/resources/equip-rubric-science
[4] Laverty, J. T., et. al., (2016). PloS ONE,11(9): e0162333.


Developing NGSS-aligned assessment tasks for the Next Gen PET curriculum

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