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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  • Turning Introduction to Statistics into an On-ramp to STEM

    STEM classes, particularly calculus and introductory computer science classes, traditionally have few women and underrepresented minorities enrolled. Skyline C…

  • Virtual Galápagos: A Design-Based Approach to Training Pre-Service Elementary STEM Teachers

    This talk presents initial outcomes from a novel, two-year pilot program for pre-service elementary teachers called Virtual Galápagos.The program’s primary goa…

  • Vision and Change and Interactions in General Education Life Science (IGELS) Courses

    The main goal of the IGELS (Interactions in General Education Life Science courses) Project is to determine the extent to which any principles and recommendati…

  • What is a Skill-Based Curricular Overlay (SBCO), and how can it help your STEM teaching?

    This lightning talk will introduce a novel curricular framework, developed as part of an NSF-IUSE grant, that instructors across STEM disciplines can apply to …

  • Who participates in DataFest and why? Lessons learned from a 2-year long multi-institutional study

    As big data becomes ubiquitous in every aspect of our day-to-day lives, it is increasingly vital for students to develop data literacy skills and learn how to …

  • ZotGraph: Engaging Students with Complex Topics through Knowledge Graphs

    A core challenge in education is making the conceptual connections between different topics legible to students. We have developed and tested an interactive sy…

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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.