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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  • Creating Courses that Integrate Science and Culture: Facilitating Learning Across Three Knowledge Domains

    (Caption: Image from the Florentine Codex depicting the importance and knowledge of agriculture in 16th century Aztec culture.)In this blog, a historian of sci…

  • Transforming the Undergraduate Environmental Engineering Curriculum with Environmental Justice

    This presentation describes research on developing and implementing a suite of integrated, interdisciplinary, community-engaged, anti-racism training opportuni…

  • Promoting systems thinking and perspective-taking in the STEM classroom through modeling

    Being open-minded about controversial issues is essential for problem-solving and informed decision-making. We investigated the use of building “mental models”…

  • Investigating Learning Progression Modules in Science Courses for Preservice Elementary Teachers

    All teachers need a strong understanding of the content that they teach, and when they are less knowledgeable their instruction can be rigid, focused on low-le…

  • Growing distributed faculty community via virtual training and engagement requires careful design

    Innovations in STEM education often require collaborative efforts across multiple institutions. When these efforts involve professional development of faculty,…

  • Unveiling Gendered and Racialized Dynamics in Undergraduate Data Science Education

    Data science, a rapidly growing STEM field, exhibits persistent low participation rates among women and underrepresented minorities (URMs), including Black and…

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