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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  • Student Learning and Transfer in Multi-Disciplinary Introductory Physics Labs

    First-year engineering students are typically enrolled in large enrollment introductory STEM courses across their first two semesters in college. These courses…

  • Course Structural Messaging: Integrated Support for Epistemology, Growth Mindset, and Sense of Belon

    Need: Though approaches for positively impacting students’ epistemology, growth mindset, and sense of belonging have been developed, these approaches often con…

  • Challenges and Initial Findings from a Program for Part-Time STEM Faculty to Enhance Student Success

    Need: At Elmhurst University and many other small, private institutions, a significant percentage of introductory STEM courses are taught by part-time faculty.…

  • Exploring alternative perspectives through fictionalized student dialogues

    Research-based instructional strategies often use fictionalized student dialogues (FSD) to encourage students to explore diverse ideas and perspectives. This s…

  • Smartphone Simulations for the Introductory Astronomy Classroom

    This poster will describe our project on the design and study of smartphone simulations, innovative tools for improving students’ understanding of astronomy co…

  • Measuring Learning and Improving Teaching of Physics of Fluids in IPLS course

    Full abstract available via the link in the Additional Resources box.CoauthorsJames Vesenka, University of New England, Bidderford, ME; DJ Wagner, Grove City C…

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