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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  • Insights from the Enhancing the Quality of Undergraduate Investigations in Physical Science (EQUIPS)

    Need: Prospective elementary teachers are often provided little to no opportunities to both plan and carry out their own scientific investigations during their…

  • Development of an Active-Learning, Multimedia, Biomedically-Relevant Introductory Physics Curriculum

    This workshop will share the on-going IUSE-funded development/design/assessment of a new type of active-learning introductory physics curriculum – one directed…

  • Universal Design for Learning Instructional Practice Observation Protocol

    Need: While students vary in their needs, abilities, and interests, postsecondary instructors often do not know how to provide support for some types of learne…

  • Rethinking introductory physics for pre-health and life-science majors

    Need: There is a need to reform undergraduate pre-health physics instruction in what is commonly referred to as Introductory Physics for the Life Sciences or I…

  • 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…

  • Making Computation Normal Across the Physics Curriculum at IUPUI

    NeedThis project addresses a critical need: updating the physics curriculum to bring our students’ learning in line with the way physics is practiced, and to e…

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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.