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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  • More than Words: Analyzing Conversation to Explore Cognitive Engagement in Active Learning

    This talk reports on a project exploring cognitive engagement in active learning, highlighting how insights from applied linguistics can enhance the analysis o…

  • Students as Partners in Educational Transformation

    The shifting sands of higher education and a pandemic have made it difficult to find a stable pathway to achieving the transformation we envisioned at the star…

  • Integrating Nuclear Magnetic Resonance into the Undergraduate Science Curriculum

    Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) is an important tool in the modern STEM workforce that also provides the foundation for more in-depth explorations in multiple…

  • Female and Hispanic interns gain science communication skills during a team-based summer experience

    Female and Hispanic students who are underrepresented in STEM face more educational barriers than their non-Hispanic, male peers. However, little research has …

  • Assessment of Students’ Knowledge, Curriculum Adoption, and Role of Community of Practice in Green

    While instruction in green chemistry is becoming more common, it needs to be better represented in the textbooks, leaving instructors responsible for deciding …

  • Design and Implementation of Online Reasoning Chain Construction Assessment (ORCCA) tools

    In this talk, we will describe a multi-institutional interdisciplinary research project in which we are developing Online Reasoning Chain Construction Assessme…

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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.