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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  • 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…

  • Leveraging dual-process theories to support student reasoning: An example in the context of air resi

    Need: An emerging body of research has shown that, even after research-based instruction, students who demonstrate correct conceptual understanding and reasoni…

  • Course Structural Messaging: Integrated Support for Epistemology, Growth Mindset, and Sense of Belon

    Need: Though approaches for positively impacting students’ epistemology, growth mindset, and sense of belonging have been developed, these approaches often con…

  • Quantitative Network Analysis for Benchmarking and Improving Makerspaces

    This project aims to better understand how students are using makerspaces. Using makerspaces to support engineering coursework can have mixed effects on studen…

  • Scaffolding & Tools for Instructors in Guided Inquiry Learning (STIGIL)

    Need: In social constructivism, students interact and collaborate to construct their own understanding; this increases student motivation, content learning, sk…

  • Local wearable cooling may improve thermal comfort, emotion, and cognition

    Local wearable cooling may improve thermal comfort, emotion, and cognitionAbstract:Need: Extreme heat during summer could pose a threat to students’ thermal co…

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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.