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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  • Exploratory Learning Activities in Undergraduate STEM Courses

    Need: Exploratory learning is an active-learning technique that has been shown to improve students’ conceptual understanding. Exploratory learning reverses the…

  • Green chemistry design principles to support learners’ sustainable thinking

    This project fulfills a need for the development and evaluation of curricular materials to elicit evidence of understanding of green and sustainable chemistry …

  • Impact of Mindset Training for Supplemental Instructors and Faculty on STEM Courses at Small College

    Need: The impact of enhanced mindset training for peer Supplemental Instructors (SI) and supervising faculty in gateway STEM courses (Precalculus, Calculus I, …

  • Development and Implementation of a Multi-Year, CURE-based Chemistry Lab Curriculum

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

  • Using Artificial Intelligence to Support Open-Ended Problem Solving in Chemistry

    Need: Chemistry is an important gateway course for STEM careers, and the quantitative problem solving aspects of this course are one of the biggest barriers to…

  • Interactive Self-Study Modules for Chemical Engineering Courses

    Need: Resources are needed that make it easier for faculty to incorporate active learning into chemical engineering courses and that make it easier for student…

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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.