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…

results in Engineering.
  • Addressing Systemic Issues in STEM Education: Potential and Perils of XR Technologies

    Caption: Authors Michele McColgan, Ph.D. and Jason Morphew, Ph.D. provide an overview of the MARVLS app, an augmented reality app, which helps students develop…

  • Using a Modularity Analysis to Characterize the Effective Use of Makerspaces

    Need: Makerspaces are a new and impactful tool in the engineering educators’ toolbox. Ensuring these spaces effectively grow and meet their full potential requ…

  • Transforming Student Transfer in STEM

    Engineering programs are under pressure to change in response to numerous external forces, foremost among them the lack of a sufficient number of graduates to …

  • Insights from the First Year of Project # 2044472 “Improving the Conceptual Mastery of Engineering

    This project aims to enhance students’ learning in foundational engineering courses through oral exams. The adaptive dialogic nature of oral exams provides ins…

  • P4E:STEM — Developing DEI Curricular Interventions in Engineering and Computer Science

    Over the past five years, the Partnership for Equity:STEM (P4E:STEM) has been working to develop, implement, and assess diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) …

  • Reimagining energy: A sociotechnical approach to an undergraduate engineering course

    Energy is a foundational concept across engineering disciplines, but it is often introduced to students in notoriously disengaging Thermodynamics courses. Many…

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