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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  • Design, Implementation, and Evaluation of CRISPR Gene Technology Toolkit for Undergraduate Education

    Undergraduate biology students learn that CRISPR gene editing is revolutionizing basic science and biomedicine. However, there is limited educational material …

  • Prompts or Protocol: Supporting Elementary Science Teacher Candidates To Notice Students’ Strengths

    Need: Science education has shifted from a focus on canonical correctness toward sensemaking (Campbell, 2016; NGSS Lead States, 2013). This shift requires teac…

  • The Tutor Engagement Assistant (TEA): Promoting High-Quality TA-Student Interactions

    Need: Recent studies of Teaching Assistant (TAs) interactions with students during one on one office hours suggest that TAs often fail to use good pedagogical …

  • A Study of Tolerance of Ambiguity, Engineering Identity, and Intellectual Mental Models of Undergra

    A Study of Tolerance of Ambiguity, Engineering Identity, and Intellectual Mental Models of Undergraduate StudentsM. Javed Khan, Ph.D. and Chadia A. Aji, Ph.D.T…

  • Assessing the Impact of ChatGPT on Undergraduates’ Engineering Lab Writing

    Title: Assessing the Impact of ChatGPT on Undergraduates' Engineering Lab WritingBackground: It seems inevitable that engineering undergraduates interact with …

  • Randomized Control Trial of 1st Semester Linked-Course Learning Communities for STEM Retention

    Linked-course learning communities are a widely used strategy to promote connections between students and support student retention. This grant project created…

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