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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  • Improving STEM Motivation and Retention with Postsecondary Classroom Interventions: A Meta-Analysis

    Need: Fewer students graduating with STEM degrees can hinder efforts to meet the growing demand for a workforce with STEM skills and experience (U.S. Bureau of…

  • Improving Student Learning in Power Engineering – The Use of Concept Maps as Evaluation Tool

    Need: Today’s electric power grid is an intelligent and interconnected system, characterized by larger amount of renewable and distributed energy resources, sm…

  • Improving Students’ Creative Problem Solving Skills in Engineering using Visual Representation

    Contemporary problems are not well defined and have multiple possible causes that are unlikely to be solved by traditional means. Under these circumstances, en…

  • Improving the Preparation of Graduate Students to Teach Undergraduate Mathematics

    The College Mathematics Instructor Development Source (CoMInDS) offers several types of support to the faculty who are preparing graduate students for their te…

  • Improving Undergrad Education in Civil & Building Engineering through SCPS and Real-world Problems

    Need: Education research and theory show that active learning increases student learning and motivation. However, Civil and Building Engineering (CBE) addresse…

  • Improving Undergraduate Scientific Reasoning: Exploring the Role of Data Literacy Skills

    Need: Undergraduate students’ scientific reasoning skills are challenging to develop in undergraduate general-education science classes. Some research has show…

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