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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  • Developing a Hands-on Data Science Curriculum for Non-Computing Majors

    Recent national challenges have highlighted the nation's ongoing need for data scientists who can rapidly create actionable results from unprecedented amounts …

  • Course Structural Messaging: Integrated Support for Epistemology, Growth Mindset, and Sense of Belon

    Need: Though approaches for positively impacting students’ epistemology, growth mindset, and sense of belonging have been developed, these approaches often con…

  • Scaffolding & Tools for Instructors in Guided Inquiry Learning (STIGIL)

    Need: In social constructivism, students interact and collaborate to construct their own understanding; this increases student motivation, content learning, sk…

  • Conservation Principles, Illustrated: Analyzing the Impact of Comics on Educational Engineering

    One of the major obstacles to effective learning in STEM is the abstract nature of many core STEM concepts. While traditional approaches include examples of re…

  • Strategies for providing scalable and actionable feedback to students on professional skills

    SkillBuilder Project: Developing strategies for providing scalable and actionable feedback to students on professional skill developmentThe goal of the SkillBu…

  • Lift-off or let-down? Launching college teaching through early-career professional development

    Need: Teaching-focused professional development (TPD) is often targeted to early-career faculty, both within institutions and within STEM disciplines. Such pro…

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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.