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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  • Student Learning and Transfer in Multi-Disciplinary Introductory Physics Labs

    First-year engineering students are typically enrolled in large enrollment introductory STEM courses across their first two semesters in college. These courses…

  • Improving Undergraduate Student Engagement In STEM Through Bioinformatics Research

    Need:Bioinformatics has become a crucial element for life-science research, yet is still a daunting topic for many faculty. Instructors have the interest and d…

  • Quantitative skill support ecosystem model for aligning institutional change efforts

    NEED:Students arriving at college have a wide spectrum of quantitative skills, due in part to disparities in secondary educational opportunities and experience…

  • Using Low-Cost CO2 Sensors to Improve STEM Identity and Retention in Gateway STEM Courses

    The Inclusive Research-based Interdisciplinary Science Education (iRISE) Project seeks to decrease the racial and gender equity gap in students pursuing STEM e…

  • IUSE: EHR:ESL1:Expanding Scientific Opportunity With a Digital Course Based Undergraduate Research

    Title: DCURE (Digital Course Based Undergraduate Research Experience): expanding student opportunities in research in quantitative plant biologyStudents engagi…

  • Software Tutors for Learning Good Coding Practices

    NeedToo often, students write poor code - code that is correct, but is hard to read, modify or extend. Since the code is correct, students have no incentive to…

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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.