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 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…

  • Constructing Valid, Equitable, and Flexible Kinematics and Dynamics Assessment Scales with ECD

    Over the past 30 years, students' learning in introductory physics courses has often been assessed using instruments such as the Force Concept Inventory (FCI) …

  • Advancing Scientific Reasoning in Online and In-person Introductory Physics Labs

    Need: The economy and future workforce call for a shift of education goals from a focus on content delivery to fostering advanced skills such as reasoning, cre…

  • Numeracy in Gen Ed Science Courses: The Impact of Affect and Perceived Relevancy on Assessment

    In the information age, numerical skills such as proportional reasoning, graph reading, estimation, and arithmetic are essential life skills. They are critical…

  • Students’ Conceptual Resources for Understanding Physics

    Physics education research has a rich history of topic-specific research about student thinking. Over the last three decades, researchers have identified commo…

  • Integrating Computation Throughout the Physics Major Curriculum

    Need: Using a computer to model, simulate, predict, analyze, and display the behavior of physical systems is a central practice of physics, and computation has…

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