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…

… results in Education Research.
  • Professional Development as a Change Lever for Increased Uptake of Inclusive Active Learning

    This workshop session will share what we learned from the experience of developing and facilitating a series of biweekly workshops focused on equitable and inc…

  • Reimagining energy: A sociotechnical approach to an undergraduate engineering course

    Energy is a foundational concept across engineering disciplines, but it is often introduced to students in notoriously disengaging Thermodynamics courses. Many…

  • Renovating Calculus with the Partner Disciplines at Augsburg University: A SUMMIT-P Project

    Need: Calculus is often the first step towards a STEM major. Improving student success in calculus is essential to broadening participation in STEM. Guiding Qu…

  • Research rescue: Designing flexible and resilient projects for uncertain times

    When the best-laid plans are interrupted by forces external to your project, how can you recover your research agenda? In our 3-year IUSE level 1 grant, our ca…

  • Expanding (into) the Field: Incorporating a Field Experience into Classroom Instruction

    This workshop begins by describing an ongoing collaborative IUSE:EHR Exploration and Design Tier project that attempts to enhance engaged student learning by i…

  • Expectations of Fluency in STEM Essential Skills: solutions and issues

    Both anecdotally and empirically, it is a familiar observation that many students are not proficient in basic skills used in STEM courses. These fundamental sk…

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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.