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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  • Who participates in DataFest and why? Lessons learned from a 2-year long multi-institutional study

    As big data becomes ubiquitous in every aspect of our day-to-day lives, it is increasingly vital for students to develop data literacy skills and learn how to …

  • The “Team Learning in Action” Project: A New Training Resource To Improve STEM Collaborative Spaces

    Active student engagement is essential for student success in STEM, and collaborative learning spaces that provide opportunities for problem-solving with peers…

  • More than a token photo: humanizing scientists enhances student engagement

    Despite broad consensus that highlighting counter-stereotypical scientist role models in educational materials promotes equity and success, the specific elemen…

  • More than Words: Analyzing Conversation to Explore Cognitive Engagement in Active Learning

    This talk reports on a project exploring cognitive engagement in active learning, highlighting how insights from applied linguistics can enhance the analysis o…

  • Numerical Skills as a Barrier to Entry to STEM: Results from General Education Science Courses

    Much of the dialogue surrounding effective pedagogy for college-level general education science courses has been focused on how best to engender "science lite…

  • Opening the GATE: Advancing Teaching Evaluation in Departments

    At many institutions, STEM departments do not adequately evaluate teaching (Dennin et al., 2017). As a result, they cannot incentivize or reward the use of evi…

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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.