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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  • Factors Affecting Teaching Faculty Success in an R1 Context

    While faculty labor across all institutional types has become more contingent over the past 40 forty years, R1 institutions over the past decade have institute…

  • Fostering First-Year Engineering Students’ Interest in Pursuing Hardware Engineering Careers

    NeedThe semiconductor and digital electronics field is undergoing rapid changes with continuous progress in integrating Artificial Intelligence (AI), expanding…

  • Engineering Lab Report Writing Guides for Students and Instructors

    Need: Evidence-based guidance for teaching and learning writing for both instructors and students is necessary to improve writing in early engineering lab cour…

  • Supporting STEM academic advising for undergraduate student achievement

    Need: Success in STEM, particularly for students historically underrepresented in these fields, depends on a constellation of factors that work together to sup…

  • Testing a Model of Instructor Feedback to Improve College Students’ Success in Calculus

    Norms and Consequences of Giving Positive Feedback in College Math CoursesNeed: Although many students begin college with intentions to major in STEM, their ex…

  • Exploratory Learning Before Instruction in Undergraduate Engineering

    Need: Exploratory learning is an active-learning technique that has been shown to improve students’ conceptual understanding. Exploratory learning reverses the…

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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.