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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  • Intellectual Merits and Broader Impacts from the Transforming Introductory Biology at UAA project

    This poster will primarily showcase key outcomes, broader impacts, and lessons learned from our level 1 grant, which is in its final year with a no-cost extens…

  • Learning about the process of learning from data gathered in online environments

    Online learning resources are able to gather detailed data as students engage with the materials. This is distinct from data gathered from pre and post tests, …

  • Leveraging in-context online discussion of course materials to enhance student engagement and learning

    Need: Student learning outcomes are known to be associated with student engagement. At large-scale, instructors find it increasingly difficult to gain insight …

  • Leveraging the Physics Inventory of Quantitative Literacy to Assess Reasoning in STEM Courses

    Productive mathematical sensemaking is a habit of mind common to students who are successful in learning many science disciplines. It underpins introductory ph…

  • Mapping Engineering Practices to Undergraduate Science Courses for Preservice Elementary Teachers

    Need: The role of engineering in science education continues to emerge as a contributing factor to improving elementary STEM education. This is largely due to …

  • Motivational and cognitive challenges faced when debugging block-based code

    NeedIf computer science is to be for all, it must also be for the youngest learners. Integrating computer science content in early childhood education (ECE) ca…

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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.