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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  • Developing Human Social Networks to Identify and Develop Data-Driven Metrics and Methods

    As access to information grows learners across the lifespan are able to find and use information to meet varying needs, both work- and personal-related. There …

  • Developing Optical Devices and Projects to Improve Undergraduates’ Research and Design Skills

    NeedProject-based learning is generally regarded as an excellent approach for undergraduate engineering education, but also one that requires significant resou…

  • Engaging Faculty in Discipline Based Education Research through Learning Communities

    While over 60% of undergraduate students start college by attending a community college, less than 5% of educational research is conducted in the community col…

  • Engaging with the Accelerating Systemic Change Network to Amplify your IUSE Work

    The Accelerating System Change Network (ASCN) is an IUSE-funded national network of STEM and higher education change makers and change researchers. By closing …

  • Examining and supporting student reasoning in physics using dual-process theories

    In any given year, approximately 500,000 students, most of whom are majoring in STEM disciplines other than physics, take introductory physics courses at insti…

  • Vision and Change and the Improvement of General Education Life Science Courses

    Why don't more STEM faculty implement what the science education community has repeatedly reported works (is effective) in the undergraduate classroom? What is…

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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.