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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  • 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…

  • Interdisciplinary Exploration of Science Practices across Introductory Science Labs

    Norda Stephenson, Lina Dahlberg, Trà Huỳnh, Lukas Spring, Katherine Hunter, Elayna WorlineNeed: Meaningful student engagement with the science practices is an …

  • New to IUSE: Institutionalizing Undergraduate Research throughout the Chemistry Laboratory

    NEEDCourse-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs) are a type of inquiry-based laboratory pedagogy in which students undertake an authentic, hypothesi…

  • Using Low-Cost CO2 Sensors to Improve STEM Identity and Retention in Gateway STEM Courses

    The Inclusive Research-based Interdisciplinary Science Education (iRISE) Project seeks to decrease the racial and gender equity gap in students pursuing STEM e…

  • Scaffolding & Tools for Instructors in Guided Inquiry Learning (STIGIL)

    Need: In social constructivism, students interact and collaborate to construct their own understanding; this increases student motivation, content learning, sk…

  • Challenges and Initial Findings from a Program for Part-Time STEM Faculty to Enhance Student Success

    Need: At Elmhurst University and many other small, private institutions, a significant percentage of introductory STEM courses are taught by part-time faculty.…

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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.