How do teachers find Web-based resources?
In order to answer our highest level questions, we began with an initial review of related project evaluations and existing research. This served as a basis for the conceptualization and development of a survey for high school level STEM educators and a separate survey for developers of Web-based educational resources. The two surveys are aligned in order to elucidate the discrepancies and parallels between developers understandings of teachers needs and what teachers express as their needs. The surveys were created on-line using a Web-based survey tool. Several question formats were used including: multiple choice, rating scales, short-answer, and single choice. We designed focus group protocols in order to delve further into the needs of educators. The guiding question of the educator focus groups is How do you FIND Web resources and INTEGRATE those resources into your teaching? Participants also work together to describe ideal features and services of a STEM site, and they reflect o
