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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  • Want More Women in Geoscience? Consider Their Math Attitudes

    Geoscience has made concerted efforts to increase the number of women entering and graduating from undergraduate geoscience programs, but despite these efforts…

  • Student Produced Audio Narratives (SPAN)

    Need: Introductory geoscience courses play an important role in recruiting more, and more diverse, students into the STEM workforce. However, teaching these co…

  • Math Attitudes in Undergraduate Students Enrolled in Introductory Geoscience Courses

    Need: Math attitudes are intricately related to success in science, but this relationship has not been explored in geoscience. To recruit, retain, and graduate…

  • 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…

  • FossilSketch: first results of classroom testing

    Need: The microfossil remains that are preserved in sediments play key roles in determining the ages of geologic records, reconstructing paleoenvironments, and…

  • 3D Virtual-Rocks for Improving Rock-Category Learning in Physical Geology

    Need: This project aims to serve the national need for highly effective undergraduate STEM education. Specifically, the project aims to enhance the teaching of…

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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.