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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  • Flight School, the tiered peer-mentoring program that benefits students and faculty

    While research on mentoring has been extensive, research on tiered peer-mentoring is limited, particularly in regional comprehensive institutions where most of…

  • Connecting Undergraduates to Biodiversity Instruction through Citizen/Community Science

    This project aims to serve the national interest by establishing teaching practices that support active engagement with real-world scientific research to incre…

  • Teaching learning-focused homework skills with online learning modules

    Teaching learning-focused homework skills with online learning modules  Need: Formative assessments (FAs) are activities that instructors use to gauge student …

  • Assessing how undergraduate biology students conceptualize genetics and race

    Need. Essentialist ideas about race—that racial groups are meaningfully determined by biology—are both common and harmful. Students who incorrectly believe tha…

  • The Doing Physics Model – Strengthening Physics Achievement via Research and Collaboration (SPARC)

    Need – Challenges shared by students studying physics, especially those dependent on prior preparation from under-resourced school districts, include underdeve…

  • The PALM Network indirectly influenced members to embrace Vision and Change principles

    NEED: About 15 years ago the NSF and AAAS sponsored a large-scale rethinking of the biology curriculum, resulting in the 2011 report, Vision and Change: A Call…

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