Resources

This initiative compiles materials that help STEM education leaders create improvements in their classrooms, transform institutions, and advance research.
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  • 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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  • A Workshop to Support Faculty in Creating Inclusive and Effective Active Learning Classrooms

    The Faculty Teaching Institute (FTI) takes a whole faculty member approach to improving the nation's physics and astronomy education culture. The multi-day wor…

  • Design and Implementation of Online Reasoning Chain Construction Assessment (ORCCA) tools

    In this talk, we will describe a multi-institutional interdisciplinary research project in which we are developing Online Reasoning Chain Construction Assessme…

  • Developing Instructional Interventions in Physics Aligned with Dual-Process Theories of Reasoning

    Most STEM instructors will probably agree that one major goal of our instruction is cultivating the ability to use formal knowledge to construct logically soun…

  • From Research to Resources: Assessing Student Understanding and Skills in Quantum Computing

    Beth Thacker, Jianlan Wang, Yuanlin ZhangTexas Tech UniversityNeed: The revolutionary new field of Quantum Computing (QC) continues to gain attention in indust…

  • Measuring and Improving Physics Quantitative Literacy throughout the Undergraduate Curriculum

    Need: Physics quantitative literacy (PQL) is a ubiquitous and vital skill, but there is mounting evidence that students’ PQL doesn’t improve much as a result o…

  • Broadening Participation in an Astrosociology Curriculum

    NeedIn an age of magnificent astronomical progress and discoveries, the intensifying exploration and deepening knowledge of the cosmos have manifold repercussi…

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