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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  • Strategies for recruiting representative samples of STEM student participants for studies

    Need: Describe why this project is important and what needs it fulfills.For studies that explore how undergraduates experience interventions designed to suppor…

  • Student Meaning Making & Interest Maintenance in a Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience

    Need and Guiding Question: Course-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs) are heralded as a great innovation in college STEM education, combining auth…

  • Student Produced Audio Narratives (SPAN)

    Need: Introductory geoscience courses play an important role in recruiting more, and more diverse, students into the STEM workforce. However, teaching these co…

  • Students cognitive engagement when learning with instructional videos is related to STEM achievement

    NeedInstructional videos are common resources used in STEM classrooms and, when designed well, can help students better understand complex STEM topics. Underst…

  • Students’ Conceptual Resources for Understanding Physics

    Physics education research has a rich history of topic-specific research about student thinking. Over the last three decades, researchers have identified commo…

  • Students’ Transfer of First Law Concepts Across Engineering and Science Discipline-Specific Contexts

    Need.A national call has been made to develop and support integrated models of STEM education to meet the demands of a growing and increasingly interdisciplina…

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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.