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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  • Exploring Students’ Learning of Data Analysis in a Three-Dimensional Lab Environment

    Need: Current movements to reform undergraduate lab courses build on the K-12 Next Generation Science Standards vision with its emphasis on scientific practice…

  • Exploring students’ socio-metacognitive experiences

    Need: Research-based instructional materials often use an elicit - confront - resolve strategy to guide students toward formal science concepts (e.g., Tutorial…

  • Exploring Transdisciplinary Approaches To STEM Teaching and Learning

    To meet the challenges of the 21st Century, students will have to operate within transdisciplinary contexts. The National Academies has recognized the need to …

  • Designing and testing Attending to Conceptual Resources in Physics (ACORN-Physics) tutorials

    The 2021 National Academies report “Call to Action for Science Education: Building Opportunity for the Future” calls for student science experiences that “prov…

  • Developing STEM Literacy and Career Paths through Inclusive Team Internships

    Need:STEM students develop science literacy skills through required science and mathematics courses. Non-STEM majors, on the other hand, often leave college wi…

  • Development and Implementation of a Multi-Year, CURE-based Chemistry Lab Curriculum

    NEEDCourse-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs) are a type of inquiry-based laboratory pedagogy in which students undertake an authentic, hypothesi…

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