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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  • Transforming classrooms into active learning environments to improve comprehension & graduation rate

    The 2012 President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) reported that less than 40% of US students who enter university show an interest in …

  • Understanding students’ learning strategies in mastery-based online learning modules

    The Need: As online learning becomes more prevalent especially after the onset of COVID pandemic, there's a pressing need to identify students' learning strate…

  • Universal Design for Learning Instructional Practice Observation Protocol

    Need: While students vary in their needs, abilities, and interests, postsecondary instructors often do not know how to provide support for some types of learne…

  • Using preprint peer review to enhance scientific literacy and identity formation: preliminary data

    Need: Undergraduate science education focuses on how experiments are carried out and the knowledge generated by that research literature, but misses an opportu…

  • 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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