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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  • Climate Justice in Undergraduate STEM: Incorporating Civic Engagement

    This workshop will provide an overview of a professional development curriculum that supports community college STEM faculty who want to infuse climate justice…

  • Collaborating at Scale: A Model for Improving STEM Teacher Preparation across Washington State

    Making improvements in undergraduate STEM education at scale is a challenging task. Most projects seek to improve one program, department, or institution at a …

  • Collaborative Research: Supported Mastery Assessment using Repeated Testing (SMART)

    Need:In engineering science courses, exams typically lead to two undesirable outcomes: students feel anxiety, and students study in ways designed to maximize p…

  • Connecting Undergraduate Biology Through Systems and Systems Thinking

    Connecting Undergraduate Biology Through Systems and Systems Thinking NEED: Vision & Change (V&C) effectively winnowed the breadth of what could be tau…

  • Creating a Sense of Belonging to CS among Students from Historically Underrepresented Groups in CS

    Our goals are to (1) demonstrate how CS can be taught in non-CS classes and contextualized to attract learners from historically underrepresented groups to CS,…

  • Creating a Tool to Measure Student Learning of Food-Energy-Water Concepts

    Concept inventories are validated assessments designed to evaluate student understanding of concepts and learning. No valid and reliable concept inventory curr…

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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.