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 Human Social Networks to Identify and Develop Data-Driven Metrics and Methods

    As access to information grows learners across the lifespan are able to find and use information to meet varying needs, both work- and personal-related. There …

  • An Assets Based Approach to STEM Faculty Teaching Development

    Need: There are persistent myths about why faculty do not adopt research-based teaching practices. A common assumption is that faculty are not aware of the pro…

  • Writing Assignment Tutor Training in STEM (WATTS), an Approach to Enhance Student Writing

    Need: The Writing Assignment Tutor Training in STEM (WATTS) program is a sustainable, interdisciplinary intervention that capitalizes on existing resources to …

  • A Networked Community of Practice Model for Institutional and Statewide Transformation

    At CSU, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) and local community colleges, we are using an identity-based community of practice model (Wenger 2000) of faculty professional …

  • Supporting Undergraduate Preservice Science Teachers with an NGSS-Aligned Unit Planning Tool

    This project aims to serve pre-service science teachers and K-12 students nationally by positively impacting the ability of science teacher educators to suppor…

  • Teaching Ethics Using Problem-Based Learning in an Intro ECE Course

    Need: Research supports using instructional methods for teaching ethical reasoning in STEM fields. Compared to lecture, active learning approaches, such as 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.