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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  • Perceptions and Student Performance in Early Engineering Laboratory Writing

    NeedEffective communication is the most highly cited outcome in higher education, whether the surveyed are students, faculty, or employers. Early lab courses a…

  • Piloting a multi-site data science CURE to increase STEM persistence among minority students

    The national need for students from diverse populations to enter the STEM workforce or graduate school is high. This research aims to increase the retention an…

  • Making Computation Normal Across the Physics Curriculum at IUPUI

    NeedThis project addresses a critical need: updating the physics curriculum to bring our students’ learning in line with the way physics is practiced, and to e…

  • Polar Explorer – A Virtual Learning Environment for Polar Science Education

    Need: We recently began a 5-year IUSE project to develop a new digital learning environment called Polar Explorer. The Arctic is underlain by permafrost, a lay…

  • Improving the Preparation of Graduate Students to Teach Undergraduate Mathematics

    The College Mathematics Instructor Development Source (CoMInDS) offers several types of support to the faculty who are preparing graduate students for their te…

  • Improving Undergrad Education in Civil & Building Engineering through SCPS and Real-world Problems

    Need: Education research and theory show that active learning increases student learning and motivation. However, Civil and Building Engineering (CBE) addresse…

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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.