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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  • Predicting and disrupting inequitable patterns in engineering student teamwork: To-date results

    In a poster describing to-date work on our NSF IUSE project, we present evidence collected on a tool for identifying and disrupting marginalization in student …

  • Professional Development for Part-time College Faculty to Enhance Student Success in STEM

    Need: At Elmhurst University and many other small, private institutions, a significant percentage of introductory STEM courses are taught by part-time faculty.…

  • Improving Online Learning with Tutorial Dialog Videos

    Online courses have become a cost-effective, flexible alternative form of delivery for college-level courses, especially during the outbreak of the COVID-19 pa…

  • Improving Solid Mechanics Education using Multi-Scale Material Characterization and Visualization

    Undergraduate solid mechanics courses can assist students to understand how materials deform under various loading conditions. Additionally, solid mechanics is…

  • Improving STEM Motivation and Retention with Postsecondary Classroom Interventions: A Meta-Analysis

    Need: Fewer students graduating with STEM degrees can hinder efforts to meet the growing demand for a workforce with STEM skills and experience (U.S. Bureau of…

  • Improving Student Learning in Power Engineering – The Use of Concept Maps as Evaluation Tool

    Need: Today’s electric power grid is an intelligent and interconnected system, characterized by larger amount of renewable and distributed energy resources, sm…

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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.