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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  • Development of a Data-Driven Pathway into STEM

    NeedSTEM classes, particularly introductory computer science and engineering classes, traditionally have few women (Kahn et al., 2017) and under-represented mi…

  • Effects of Symmetric and Asymmetric Manipulatives on Spatial Skills Training

    Need: Spatial skills are not only important in daily life, but also essential for learning STEM subjects. Research has shown that a positive correlation exists…

  • Engaging Community Colleges in Recruitment of Secondary STEM Teachers Through Early Field Experience

    The project explores the use of an early field experience recruitment course (Step 1) developed by UTeach at the University of Texas and modified by the Univer…

  • Environmental influences and individual characteristics that affect learner-centered teaching

    Research-based teaching practices can improve student learning outcomes in a variety ofcomplex educational environments. The implementation of learner-centered…

  • Evaluation and support of dept-level transformation; deployment of broadly relevant PULSE DEI Rubric

    Need: In past decades, STEM education reform focused on supporting instructional transformation through programs developing faculty reflection, use of evidence…

  • An Institutional Model for Increasing Faculty & Student Engagement through Research-Based Curricula

    Need: Our project addresses the challenges of reforming STEM education using a comprehensive, interdisciplinary, systems approach model that focuses on the ent…

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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.