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…

… results in STEM Education and Learning Research.
  • Project STEMinAR : Physics Simulations in Augmented Reality

    We are developing a new augmented reality app for mobile devices to be used in the classroom. The app is called STEMinAR. Within this app users will find simul…

  • Leveraging Course-Based Communities of Transformation to Effect Change in STEM Education

    Need: Describe why this project is important and what needs it fulfills.Literature shows that student engagement through active and inquiry-based learning impr…

  • Modules for Statistics Graduate Teaching Assistants Learning to Teach Equitably with Authentic Data

    Developing data acumen is necessary for every citizen to harness the data revolution in their workplaces and everyday lives (NASEM, 2018). Despite efforts to e…

  • Building Educational Theory through Enacting Reforms (BETTER) in STEM

    Building Educational Theory through Enacting Reforms (BETTER) in STEMNeedWhile minoritized, low-income, and first-generation students in undergraduate STEM pro…

  • Leveraging the Lived Experiences of Non-Traditional Engineering Students: NTES Interviews and Coding

    This poster presents early-stage preliminary results from a NSF-IUSE Engaged Student Learning Track 1 project funded in Fall 2023.Need: The population of nontr…

  • The PALM Network indirectly influenced members to embrace Vision and Change principles

    NEED: About 15 years ago the NSF and AAAS sponsored a large-scale rethinking of the biology curriculum, resulting in the 2011 report, Vision and Change: A Call…

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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.