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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  • Impact of Mindset Training for Supplemental Instructors and Faculty on STEM Courses at Small College

    Need: The impact of enhanced mindset training for peer Supplemental Instructors (SI) and supervising faculty in gateway STEM courses (Precalculus, Calculus I, …

  • Exploratory Learning Activities in Undergraduate STEM Courses

    Need: Exploratory learning is an active-learning technique that has been shown to improve students’ conceptual understanding. Exploratory learning reverses the…

  • Graphical Literacy for STEM Students: Testing the Effects of Context and Scaffolding During Learning

    Need: Graphical data displays are ubiquitous in introductory STEM courses and textbooks (e.g., Brown et al., 2015; Kump et al., 2010; Myers, 2013; Reece et al.…

  • Developing Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge of Pre-Service Math Teachers

    Need - Several researchers have found a gap between the methods courses taught at universities and the field experiences that prospective teachers perform in s…

  • Assessing the comprehension of mathematical proofs at the undergraduate level

    Need. Comprehending mathematical proofs is central in advanced mathematics courses taken by students pursuing undergraduate programs in STEM disciplines and pr…

  • Challenging, Operationalizing & Understanding Racialized and Gendered Events (COURAGE) in Calculus

    Need: Undergraduate calculus instruction contributes to racialized and gendered rates of persistence with mathematics coursework and STEM majors. While prior r…

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