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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  • A Place Where I Can Belong: Investment in a Learning Community for Community College Transfer Students in the Marine Geosciences

    Community college students are untapped human and research capital.

  • Creating Courses that Integrate Science and Culture: Facilitating Learning Across Three Knowledge Domains

    (Caption: Image from the Florentine Codex depicting the importance and knowledge of agriculture in 16th century Aztec culture.)In this blog, a historian of sci…

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    Need: Unlike in solid earth geosciences, there is a paucity of research on atmospheric science students’ cognitive and affective gains from field work particip…

  • The Math Your Earth Science Majors’ Need, When They Need it: Improving Quantitative Skills

    Need:Quantitative skills are fundamental in Earth science and students need sustained and distributed practice to strengthen their skills. The application of q…

  • Characterizing the Role of Knowledge and Spatial Thinking in Learning Hydrogeology

    Hydrogeology deals with surface and subsurface water flow and the transport and fate of environmental contaminants. Graduates with hydrogeological training are…

  • Impacting Perceptions and Career Interests in Geosciences in High School Students by Place-based Act

    The primary goal of this project was to increase the number of students interested in pursuing degrees/careers in the geosciences, especially historically unde…

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