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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  • Supporting Non-Tenure Track Faculty through Professional Development: Considerations for Success

    Need: Higher education has fundamentally shifted the nature of its workforce in the last 20 years from mostly full-time, tenure track faculty to mostly conting…

  • Researching Apun: Students Using Local, Traditional, and Science Knowledge Bases to Investigate Arct

    Student engagement in STEM increases when research activities are included in the curriculum. These research experiences, when paired with Culturally Relevant …

  • Secondary PSTs’ Understanding of A Tri-Focal Approach Integrated in A Science Method Course

    A study of Secondary PSTs’ Understanding of A Tri-Focal Approach Integrated in A Science Method CourseNeed: Reconceptualizing science content and the language …

  • Mapping change: How do faculty workplace interactions and social networks influence their teaching practices?

    Need: Over the past several decades, national organizations have called for undergraduate STEM instructors to implement evidence-based instructional practices …

  • Measurement of Negative Mentoring in Undergraduate Research

    Need: Undergraduate research experiences have been shown to foster undergraduates’ personal and professional growth; mentoring by more experienced scientists i…

  • Metacognition and Misconceptions: Using Web-Based Writing Exercises in Gateway STEM Courses

    NEED: Writing exercises have been used to detect student misconceptions regarding course content across a variety of STEM disciplines. Further, writing exercis…

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