Dear NSTA Leaders and Members:
As you may have heard, NSTA is bringing back the series “What Research Says to the Science Teacher.” The original series, published in the 1980s, was popular among science teachers because it synthesized research and offered practical suggestions for how to apply research in the classroom. The books in the new series will have these same qualities and more! The publications will be relatively short (15–20 pages), will offer research-based suggestions, and will be reviewed by teachers before they are published to ensure relevancy and readability. More importantly, the contents and themes of the books will be selected by the NSTA community.
In order to identify pertinent “What Research Says” book topics, we need your input. We’re asking all members of the NSTA community to spend 10–15 minutes to select and rank the 10 most important topics from a list of 25. We’ll conduct a Rasch analysis of the survey returns and will report on the results and the top 10 selected topics in a future article in NSTA Reports
Please participate in this survey, and send this message along to other science educators. The link to the survery can be found at: www.surveymonkey.com/s/2BBPMSD. The survey will be open through September 15, 2010.
Thanks so much for your help on this important project,
Julie Luft, NSTA Research Division Director & Kathryn Scantlebury, NSTA Research Committee Member co-Editors, What Research Says to the Science Teacher Series