Resources

This initiative compiles materials that help STEM education leaders create improvements in their classrooms, transform institutions, and advance research.
Review our staff picks for timely resources related to pressing issues or use the search and categorization features to browse research, reports, and other materials.

Staff Picks

  • Characterizing Student Perspectives on Departmental Culture: The Student DELTA Survey

    Traditional Student Experience MetricsNational reports have revealed that although undergraduate education has undergone significant reform, students are not g…

  • The Value of Community Colleges: Bridging Gaps and Building Pathways to Increase Student Success

    (Video credit: CCC Marcom)Innovative Evidence-based Strategies to Disrupt the Current Community College NarrativeI was honored to be invited to talk at a confe…

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  • Squirrel-Net: a field-based, ecological CURE series that is bringing undergraduate students together

    Research experiences allow undergraduate students to gain confidence in overcoming obstacles, learn the process of inquiry, and develop an identity as scientis…

  • Starting a Community of Practice for Equitable Grading Practices in Computer Science

    Traditional grading practices where points are allocated to assignments, mistakes result in point deductions, and assignment scores are combined using some for…

  • STEM Fluency: Expanding the effectiveness, equity, and relevance of online learning of STEM skills

    It is well documented that students often struggle with relatively basic STEM skills used in introductory physics courses, such as algebra, trigonometry, and v…

  • Students as Partners in Educational Transformation

    The shifting sands of higher education and a pandemic have made it difficult to find a stable pathway to achieving the transformation we envisioned at the star…

  • Studying Retention and Graduation of Underrepresented CS Students at Multiple Institutions

    This talk reflects upon a multi-institutional project looking at practices to improve retention and graduation rates of Black computer science (CS) majors. Ove…

  • Supporting Students’ Constructions of Logical Structures to Address Challenges in Proofs Courses

    Prior research has documented several persistent challenges students face in introductory proofs courses. These challenges include a tendency to conflate the t…

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AAAS-IUSE is looking for resources that will help principal investigators, faculty and other education leaders improve undergraduate STEM education. If there is a type of resource you would like to see more of, or a specific resource you would like to recommend, please reach out below.