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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  • Tackling Real-World Problems: Impacts, Observations, and Challenges after Seven Years of the Environment Corps

    Caption: Stormwater Corps students learn to read development site plans with Instructors Bruce Hyde and Mike Dietz.In the spring of 2016, faculty members from …

  • Mentorship as a Spectrum: Helping Students be both Effective Mentors and Mentees

    Click here to watch the recording!This workshop identifies and expands on the significance of students serving simultaneously as mentors and mentees. Marcela O…

  • Preparing Non-traditional Learners as Next Generation Science Teachers

    Learn how Dr. Sharma designed a course that draws on adult learning theories and first-hand experience to teach non-traditional learners.

  • The Development of High Leverage Practices in Environmental Sustainability-Focused Service Learning.

    A focus on ‘High Leverage Practices’ (HLPs), or ‘core practices’, has been central to the field of teacher education as a set of fundamental planning and instr…

  • Connected Learning with Cognitive Maps in Sustainability Education

    NeedWhen teaching sustainability, it is important to bring together ideas from various disciplines and encourage systems thinking. One way to do so is via cogn…

  • Climate Justice in Undergraduate STEM: Incorporating Civic Engagement

    This workshop will provide an overview of a professional development curriculum that supports community college STEM faculty who want to infuse climate justice…

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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.