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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  • 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…

  • Optimize Student Learning through Personalized Instruction and Need-aware Gaming (PING)

    Need: Continuing efforts to increase the quality of student education has led to an increasing need for automated systems that can personalize a student’s lear…

  • Perceptions and Student Performance in Early Engineering Laboratory Writing

    NeedEffective communication is the most highly cited outcome in higher education, whether the surveyed are students, faculty, or employers. Early lab courses a…

  • Piloting a multi-site data science CURE to increase STEM persistence among minority students

    The national need for students from diverse populations to enter the STEM workforce or graduate school is high. This research aims to increase the retention an…

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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.