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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  • Prevalence of and barriers to the adoption of high-impact teaching practices

    This project is using a Concerns-Based Adoption Model (CBAM) as the basis for acquiring data from stakeholders about the use of high-impact teaching practices …

  • Testing Tutor: A Testing Pedagogical Active Learning Platform

    In programming courses, students often write and debug code by trial-and-error, running it on sample input (often provided by an instructor), or just using the…

  • The Mathematical Inquiry Project: Effecting Widespread, Sustainable Instructional Change

    Summary:The Mathematical Inquiry Project (MIP) is an NSF-funded collaboration of mathematics faculty from all 27 public institutions of higher education in Okl…

  • The Role of In-Class Inquiry in Shaping Student Identity and Outcomes in Entry-Level STEM Courses

     Title: The Role of In-Class Inquiry in Shaping Student Identity and Outcomes in Entry-Level STEM Courses Authors: Bradley W. Bergey, Perry Samson, a…

  • Understanding the Impacts of DATs on Departmental Change and on Undergraduate Success

    Educational change initiatives have been criticized for not accounting for cultural barriers to change, leading to low adoption. The Departmental Action Team (…

  • The Numbers are Not Enough: The Role of Qualitative Evidence in Local Teaching Cultures

    STEM-centered change efforts often rely on traditional (quantitative) forms of evidence to inspire faculty to change their pedagogies, but ignore the important…

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