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…

results in STEM Education and Learning Research.
  • How Advocating for Accessibility in the Field Builds a Culture of STEM Inclusion

    Active learning in field-focused science disciplines is widely recognized as highly transformative practice in the undergraduate curriculum. Giving students ea…

  • How Engagement Enables Broadening STEM Participation

    We must embed STEM firmly in the cultural DNA of communities to truly realize the American Dream. I am an African American male . . .

  • Writing Research and Evaluation Plans for NSF Grants: How are they similar and different?

    In general, several National Science Foundation (NSF) solicitations in the Directorate for Education & Human Resources including: Improving Undergraduate …

  • Teaching K-12 Science and Engineering During a Crisis

    The COVID-19 pandemic is resulting in widespread and ongoing changes to how the K55 education system functions, including disruptions to science teaching and l…

  • Transformation in the U.S. Higher Education System: Implications for Racial Equity

    This paper was commissioned for the Symposium on Imagining the Future of Undergraduate STEM Education. The Symposium was convened virtually by the Board on Sci…

  • 2019 Trends Report: Trends and Predictions that will define STEM in 2020

    All year long, we listen, collect information, and connect the dots. For the third year in a row, we’re taking a step back to reflect on what we’ve seen and sh…

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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.