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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  • Preprint peer review enhances scientific literacy and identity formation

    Need: Undergraduate science education focuses on how experiments are carried out and the knowledge generated by that research literature, but misses an opportu…

  • Improving Biology Undergraduates’ Success by Fostering Positive Beliefs About Intellectual Abilities

    Need: Despite decades of effort to diversify science, first generation (FG) students and Persons Excluded due to Ethnicity or Race (PEERs) remain underrepresen…

  • Measuring Learning and Improving Teaching of Physics of Fluids in IPLS course

    Full abstract available via the link in the Additional Resources box.CoauthorsJames Vesenka, University of New England, Bidderford, ME; DJ Wagner, Grove City C…

  • 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…

  • PULSE: An Online Platform Fusing Predictive Models and Productive Struggle in Programming Courses

    Need: Introductory computer science courses often encounter a significant barrier due to students' lack of self-efficacy, which can adversely affect their acad…

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