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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  • An Integrative Approach for Teaching and Learning About Biological Evolution Using Human Disease

    NEED:Two difficulties in teaching biology to undergraduate students using an evolutionary conceptual framework are: (1) the lack of clear connections between e…

  • Validated Learning Objectives for Introductory Biology: A Resource for Improving Course Design, Facu

    Validated Learning Objectives for Introductory Biology: A Resource for Improving Course Design, Faculty Practice, and Student Outcomes Need: Learning objective…

  • The Bean Beetle Microbiome Project: The impact of student-autonomy on CURE efficacy

    Need: Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences (CUREs) are an effective means of transforming the learning and teaching of science by involving students…

  • Tools for Assessment in Genetics: Making Instruments to measure student understanding of genetics co

    NeedGenetics concepts are at the very heart of modern biology, particularly in inheritance, evolution, species variation, and gene function and therapy, and th…

  • Quantitative Modeling in Biology Undergrad (QM BUG) Courses: Teaching Approaches and Student Outcome

    For some time now, national calls have emphasized inclusion of quantitative reasoning (like data and figure interpretation and mathematical and computational m…

  • Rethinking introductory physics for pre-health and life-science majors

    Need: There is a need to reform undergraduate pre-health physics instruction in what is commonly referred to as Introductory Physics for the Life Sciences or I…

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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.