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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  • Exploring Features of Active Learning Instruction that Undergraduate STEM Students Appreciated

    We describe undergraduate students’ perceptions of two innovative pedagogical models that were implemented simultaneously in a single mathematics course - a mo…

  • Identifying the Community Cultural Wealth of Successful Black Science Students through Participatory

    Need: Black scientists have achieved excellence in their fields because they were able to persist in earning undergraduate science degrees despite many barrier…

  • Improving UREs for STEM Majors and Pre-Service Teachers via Berkeley Undergraduate Research Tools

    Undergraduate research experiences (UREs) are widely believed to be a valuable component of undergraduate STEM education, yet there has been little systematic …

  • Individual/Institutional Changes and Impact from COVID-19 in Higher Education

    NEED: The COVID-19 pandemic brought unprecedented changes for individuals and the institutions they belong to, as well as uncertainty over the lasting educatio…

  • Collaborative Research: Supported Mastery Assessment using Repeated Testing (SMART)

    Need:In engineering science courses, exams typically lead to two undesirable outcomes: students feel anxiety, and students study in ways designed to maximize p…

  • Designing Education Research for Variation in Participants’ Needs, Abilities, and Interests

    Participants will take up questions posed by Pugach, Matewos & Gomez-Najarro (2020) to consider the potential for considering disability as a part of diver…

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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.