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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  • How to Use Virtual Platforms to Design Accessible Inquiry Projects for High-Enrollment Undergraduate Courses

    There is no time like the present to develop alternative, yet meaningful experiences that expose undergraduates to research. Mentored research is associated wi…

  • Vision and Change and Interactions in General Education Life Science (IGELS) Courses

    The main goal of the IGELS (Interactions in General Education Life Science courses) Project is to determine the extent to which any principles and recommendati…

  • More than a token photo: humanizing scientists enhances student engagement

    Despite broad consensus that highlighting counter-stereotypical scientist role models in educational materials promotes equity and success, the specific elemen…

  • Promoting systems thinking and perspective-taking in the STEM classroom through modeling

    Being open-minded about controversial issues is essential for problem-solving and informed decision-making. We investigated the use of building “mental models”…

  • Squirrel-Net: a field-based, ecological CURE series that is bringing undergraduate students together

    Research experiences allow undergraduate students to gain confidence in overcoming obstacles, learn the process of inquiry, and develop an identity as scientis…

  • Implementing Learning Communities for Science Faculty

    There is a recent impetus for the transformation of undergraduate science instruction which would enrich student learning of science for a large portion of a d…

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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.