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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  • Collaborative Proposal: Structured Use of Metacognitive Activities in a Flipped Undergraduate Engine

    Use of Metacognitive Skills Instruction and Repeated Reflection in a Fluid Mechanics Course to Enhance OutcomesNeed: When students repeatedly reflect on their …

  • Collaborative Research: Changing Homework Achievement with Mechanix Pedagogy (CHAMP)

    Need:Many introductory engineering courses in universities have hundreds of students, and some online classes are even larger. Instructors in these circumstanc…

  • Collaborative Research: Developing and Assessing Educational Simulations to Enhance Cyber Security

    Need: Cybersecurity education is increasingly critical to national and personal security. Colleges and universities need to prepare students for the security c…

  • Collaborative Research: Improving Students’ Computational Thinking Skills in Constr. Engrg. and Mgt.

    Need: The construction industry, one of the industries with the largest labor force in the United States (8% of the total workforce), has long suffered from pr…

  • College Mathematics Instructor Preparation Design Tool: Helping Departments Grow their Teaching

    Need. A significant and continuing challenge to undergraduate student success is the uneven quality of instruction in college mathematics courses. The last dec…

  • Communities to support faculty implementing research-based instructional strategies

    Need: The adoption and use of research-based instructional strategies (RBIS) is far from universal. It is important to attend to how faculty learn about, take …

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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.