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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  • Conservation Principles, Illustrated: Analyzing the Impact of Comics on Educational Engineering

    One of the major obstacles to effective learning in STEM is the abstract nature of many core STEM concepts. While traditional approaches include examples of re…

  • Strategies for providing scalable and actionable feedback to students on professional skills

    SkillBuilder Project: Developing strategies for providing scalable and actionable feedback to students on professional skill developmentThe goal of the SkillBu…

  • Lift-off or let-down? Launching college teaching through early-career professional development

    Need: Teaching-focused professional development (TPD) is often targeted to early-career faculty, both within institutions and within STEM disciplines. Such pro…

  • Challenges and Initial Findings from a Program for Part-Time STEM Faculty to Enhance Student Success

    Need: At Elmhurst University and many other small, private institutions, a significant percentage of introductory STEM courses are taught by part-time faculty.…

  • Exploring alternative perspectives through fictionalized student dialogues

    Research-based instructional strategies often use fictionalized student dialogues (FSD) to encourage students to explore diverse ideas and perspectives. This s…

  • 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 …

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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.