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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  • Preparing Early Engineers through Context, Connections, and Community

    Preparing Early Engineers through Context, Connections, and CommunityIntroduction:The PEEC3 (Preparing Early Engineers through Context, Community and Connectio…

  • SIRIUS about STEM education reform through the creation of a community of transformation

    The SIRIUS II project (Sustainable Interdisciplinary Research to Inspire Undergraduate Success) addresses the need for STEM curricula that promote inclusion of…

  • Developing a Model-Based Inquiry Planning Tool for Preservice Science Teachers

    Effective models of science teacher education are needed to support the visions of teaching and learning outlined in the newest standards documents. More speci…

  • Transforming classrooms into active learning environments to improve comprehension & graduation rate

    Two reports in 2012 by the National Academy of Sciences and the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) found that (1) over 50% of st…

  • Students’ Conceptual Resources for Understanding Physics

    Physics education research has a rich history of topic-specific research about student thinking. Over the last three decades, researchers have identified commo…

  • Collaborative Research: Improving Undergraduate Education in Civil & Building Engineering through St

    Need: Empirical research, learning sciences principles, and constructivist theory converge on the idea that active learning increases student performance in ST…

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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.