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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  • Students cognitive engagement when learning with instructional videos is related to STEM achievement

    NeedInstructional videos are common resources used in STEM classrooms and, when designed well, can help students better understand complex STEM topics. Underst…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Mobile Hands-On Experiments and Collaborative Learning

    Experiential learning can be a very effective way of getting students to interact with the engineering concepts and see them in action shortly before or after …

  • Optimize Student Learning through Personalized Instruction and Need-aware Gaming (PING)

    Need: Continuing efforts to increase the quality of student education has led to an increasing need for automated systems that can personalize a student’s lear…

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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.