Promoting scientific literacy through the improvement of NASA's Aerospace Education Services Program's resource materials

Scope and method of study. The purpose of this descriptive study was to determine the degree to which AESP workshop materials were found to be useful and to what extent those teachers utilized the workshop materials in their classrooms.;Findings and conclusion. The Pearson r was used to determine the relationship between usefulness of teacher resource materials and the implementation of the modules by workshop participants. Correlation coefficients were .81 for Aeronautics; .83 for Living in Space; .66 for Lunar; .68 for Microgravity; .86 for Rocketry; .14 for Spacewalking; and .66 for Toys in Space. The data found that the most often used resources were (1) Rocketry; (2) Living in Space; and (3) Aeronautics. The sample was determined to have no other biases based on demographics collected that influenced the responses to usefulness and implementation. Activities and resources that could be built or made with no cost or low cost were among those most favored by teachers.