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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  • Addressing Systemic Issues in STEM Education: Potential and Perils of XR Technologies

    Caption: Authors Michele McColgan, Ph.D. and Jason Morphew, Ph.D. provide an overview of the MARVLS app, an augmented reality app, which helps students develop…

  • Teaching algebra through physics-of-motion activities

    Preservice elementary and middle school teachers are often taught mathematics as if it were an isolated subject, a set of abstract algorithms lacking deeper me…

  • Robotic Telescope Labs for Survey-Level Undergraduates

    Over the past two decades, UNC-Chapel Hill has built one of the largest networks of fully automated, or robotic, telescopes in the world, significantly advanci…

  • Succeeding in Introductory Physics: Building math fluency in a physics context

    Need: Students often struggle with relatively basic mathematics used in introductory physics courses. This project is aimed at investigating the nature and ext…

  • Leveraging the Physics Inventory of Quantitative Literacy to Assess Reasoning in STEM Courses

    Productive mathematical sensemaking is a habit of mind common to students who are successful in learning many science disciplines. It underpins introductory ph…

  • Exploring the Impact of Robotic Telescope-Based Observing Experiences on Students’ Learning

    Students - From Telescope Access to Research: Remote telescope access has recently grown to be a large part of many formal and informal science education exper…

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