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 Environmental Sciences.
  • Environmental Technology and Data Literacy: Holistic Scientists for 21st Century STEM Careers

    Need: To develop and evaluate innovative methods for promoting discipline-specific data literacy in environmental science among undergraduate STEM students, Sa…

  • (IBCL) Inventory of Biotic Climate Literacy Pilot Field Test Findings

    Need: Climate change is an existential threat to all life on earth; the documented impacts of climate change on living systems are extensive and of a devastati…

  • Testing a Collaborative CURE Model Using a Large-scale Salamander Research Network

    Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences (CUREs) engage students in the practice of science and can enhance undergraduate education by including a large…

  • Transforming Campus Transdisciplinary Instructional Practices to Address Sustainability Education

    Addressing wicked problems such as energy demand, climate change, and water scarcity require knowledge and practices that transcend disciplinary boundaries. Th…

  • Developing A Next Generation Concept Inventory of Food-Energy-Water Nexus for Environmental Programs

    Need: Interdisciplinary environmental programs (EPs) are increasingly popular in U.S. universities. However, EPs lack disciplinary consensus about core concept…

  • Environmental Computing and Community Engagement in STEM education: Building Effective and Sustainable Relationships

    Xavier University of Louisiana, in collaboration with the Institute of Earth Science Research and Education (IESRE) run the ECoSTEM project. This project aims …

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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.