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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  • Exploring how interventions aligned with dual-process theories support student reasoning

    Need: For over 30 years, research-based materials developed by the physics education research community have helped transform introductory physics instruction.…

  • Gateway2STEM: Building a Culture of Active Learning through Course-Based Communities of Transformati

    The Gateway-2-STEM project is working to make active and collaborative learning the default method of instruction in highly enrolled gateway courses and to dev…

  • 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…

  • Project STEMinAR : Physics Simulations in Augmented Reality

    We are developing a new augmented reality app for mobile devices to be used in the classroom. The app is called STEMinAR. Within this app users will find simul…

  • Building Educational Theory through Enacting Reforms (BETTER) in STEM

    Building Educational Theory through Enacting Reforms (BETTER) in STEMNeedWhile minoritized, low-income, and first-generation students in undergraduate STEM pro…

  • Individualizing instruction at scale with cognitive diagnostics

    Need: Instructors and students benefit from feedback when it is timely, actionable, and accurate. Researchers can leverage longitudinal, fine-grained data coll…

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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.