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 a Professional Learning Program Turned Best Practices into Better Outcomes

    Improving learning in undergraduate STEM courses is a critical need to reduce high failure rates and broaden access to STEM careers. In particular, the Mathema…

  • Team-Based Inquiry Learning in Lower Division Mathematics Courses

    Team-Based Inquiry Learning (TBIL) is a form of active learning that uses the structure of Team-Based Learning to facilitate inquiry-driven instruction in lowe…

  • Training the STEM trainers in Bayesian methods

    Dealing with uncertainty is a natural part of the scientific process. Just like scientists, students also need to derive rigorous conclusions from data. With t…

  • Turning Introduction to Statistics into an On-ramp to STEM

    STEM classes, particularly calculus and introductory computer science classes, traditionally have few women and underrepresented minorities enrolled. Skyline C…

  • Numerical Skills as a Barrier to Entry to STEM: Results from General Education Science Courses

    Much of the dialogue surrounding effective pedagogy for college-level general education science courses has been focused on how best to engender "science lite…

  • Students as Partners in Educational Transformation

    The shifting sands of higher education and a pandemic have made it difficult to find a stable pathway to achieving the transformation we envisioned at the star…

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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.