Crosswalk of Teacher Baseline Survey Items

Appendix 7: Crosswalk of Teacher Survey Items

Crosswalk of Recipient Survey Items to Research Questions, Uses in Analysis, and Source of Item
Survey Item		Research Question1	Purpose of Item2	Source of Item3
Respondent Background and Demographic Information
Contact information			A	A
Education level
	Highest educational achievement	RQ1	D,C	D
Gender, race/ethnicity		RQ1	D,C	E
NASA Resources and Content Area
Frequency of accessing and using NASA resources…
	How often you view NASA resources for potential use in classroom instruction	RQ3	O	A
	How often you use NASA resources in classroom instruction	RQ3	O	A
	Favorite NASA resources used	RQ3	O	A
Level of comfort teaching NASA content areas		RQ3	O	A
Teaching experience
Main occupation (K-12 teacher or other)		RQ1	D,C	B
Current teaching certification status		RQ1	D,C	C
Number of years as a K-12 teacher		RQ1	D,C	F
Number of years teaching STEM related topics		RQ1	D,C	F
Grade level(s) taught during most recent academic year		RQ1	D,C	F
Subject(s) taught during most recent academic year		RQ1	D,C	F

1Research Questions Answered by Teacher Survey
	RQ1: Who participates in SoI
	RQ3: Does comfort in teaching NASA topics and access/use of NASA resources change between baseline and summer follow-up surveys? If so, are these changes larger among teachers at some awardee sites than others? If a change is detected, does comfort in teaching NASA topics and access/use of NASA content and resources change between the summer follow-up survey and the school year follow-up surveys? If so, are these changes larger among teachers at some awardee sites than others?
2Purpose of Item
	A: indicates that the variable from this item is used for administrative purposes (e.g., longitudinal tracking, pre and post survey data linking)
	D: indicates that the variable from this item is used in descriptive analysis
	O: indicates that the variable from this item is used as an outcome
	C: indicates that the variable from this item is used as a control variable
3Source of Item
	A: Program specific item developed for the national evaluation of SoI
	B: Item drawn from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS), 2008-2009 Teacher Follow-up Survey Questionnaire
	C: Item drawn from the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study 2003 (TIMSS)
	D: Item drawn from the NCES Teacher Compensation Survey, 2009-2010 Questionnaire
	E: Item drawn from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Provisional Guidance on the Implementation of the 1997 Standards for Federal Data on Race and Ethnicity, 2000
	F: Item drawn from the U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Students (IES) National Longitudinal Transition Study-2 (NLTS2), Teacher Survey

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