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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  • 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…

  • CRISPR in the Classroom Network: Professional Development and Mentoring Activities

    CRISPR in the Classroom Network: Professional Development and Mentoring ActivitiesNeed: Over the last decade, use of CRISPR-Cas gene editing techniques has bec…

  • New to IUSE: Institutionalizing Undergraduate Research throughout the Chemistry Laboratory

    NEEDCourse-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs) are a type of inquiry-based laboratory pedagogy in which students undertake an authentic, hypothesi…

  • Teaching Data Science from a Humanities Perspective: An Introductory Interdisciplinary Course

    Data science needs practitioners with keen data acumen. This means data science education needs a greater focus on ethical, contextual, and rhetorical concerns…

  • 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…

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