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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  • Evidence of Students’ Engagement in Green Chemistry Using Engineering Practices

    This project fulfills a need for engaging students in a second-year organic chemistry laboratory in green and sustainable decision-making, elicited through the…

  • Supporting change in physics undergraduate programs: Lessons learned from the EP3 & DALI initiative

    The Departmental Action Leadership Institute (DALI) is a community engagement activity of the Effective Practices for Physics Programs (EP3) initiative, which …

  • Washington Community and Technical College Consortium for Undergraduate Research and Equity

    Need: Many community and technical colleges report institutional barriers to undergraduate research, including a need for research culture, institutional suppo…

  • GATHERing Together to Create Equity-Centered Organizational Change in Higher Education

    NeedDespite numerous calls for change to broaden participation and improve diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice (DEIJ) in STEM and higher education, attem…

  • Using Subgoal Labels to Better Support Student Learning in Introductory Programming Courses

    Need:With this rise in demand for coding skills, there has also been a rise in the desire to learn to code, with millions using online sites such as code.org, …

  • Identification of Threshold Concepts for Intermediate Computer Science Courses

    Need:Computational thinking (CT) has been identified and championed by many as one of the necessary skills for all modern people regardless of long-term educat…

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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.