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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  • A Networked Community of Practice Model for Institutional and Statewide Transformation

    At CSU, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) and local community colleges, we are using an identity-based community of practice model (Wenger 2000) of faculty professional …

  • Vision and Change and the Improvement of General Education Life Science Courses

    Why don't more STEM faculty implement what the science education community has repeatedly reported works (is effective) in the undergraduate classroom? What is…

  • A STEM Reform Solar System: Academic Departments and Institutional Elements Orbiting Them

    In this session, we share key findings from the AAU’s Leveraging Study, which examines the complex institutional environment in which innovations to undergradu…

  • Writing Assignment Tutor Training in STEM (WATTS), an Approach to Enhance Student Writing

    Need: The Writing Assignment Tutor Training in STEM (WATTS) program is a sustainable, interdisciplinary intervention that capitalizes on existing resources to …

  • An Assets Based Approach to STEM Faculty Teaching Development

    Need: There are persistent myths about why faculty do not adopt research-based teaching practices. A common assumption is that faculty are not aware of the pro…

  • An Integrative Approach for Teaching and Learning About Biological Evolution Using Human Disease

    NEED:Two difficulties in teaching biology to undergraduate students using an evolutionary conceptual framework are: (1) the lack of clear connections between e…

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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.