Alignment of NITARP components to Next Generation Science Standards
Abstract
The NASA/IPAC Teacher Archive Research Program (NITARP) provides a year-long research experience for secondary educators and their students. High school students work alongside educators and research scientists to formulate research proposals, analyze NASA archival data, and present their findings at an academic conference. NITARP is one of the few programs that allows secondary students to conduct real astronomical research in an authentic research setting. The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), developed in 2013, provide a national framework for forward-thinking science education in the United States. By aligning the NITARP experience and goals with the NGSS, we present how NITARP provides an authentic and engaging application of the these standards for secondary students. We show through analysis of skills used by secondary science students that through participation in NITARP, students make progress on a broad range of standards. Combined with self-reported student surveys, we are also able show that student views toward science and science research change when students have worked for approximately a year as NITARP participants. This research was made possible through NITARP and funded by NASA Astrophysics Data Program
- Publication:
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American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts #233
- Pub Date:
- January 2019
- Bibcode:
- 2019AAS...23335208F