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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  • Making Systemic Changes: Questioning Meritocracy at the Faculty Level

    (Image Caption: When thinking about a healthy ecosystem, the research team created this tree for inspiration. The roots show practices we hoped became norms an…

  • Teaching Data Science in Psychology Courses

    Data science is a growing academic and professional field that uses computer programming methods to gather and evaluate information in large datasets. Data sci…

  • ThermoVR: A virtual laboratory for teaching and assessing introductory thermodynamics

    In this project we used a process of co-design with a cohort of engineering educators to develop and test a new VR learning tool in a diversity of undergraduat…

  • Numerical Skills as a Barrier to Entry to STEM: Results from General Education Science Courses

    Much of the dialogue surrounding effective pedagogy for college-level general education science courses has been focused on how best to engender "science lite…

  • How do we assess learning in Software Engineering?

    Our IUSE project, Exploring Brownfield Programming Assignments in Undergraduate Computing Education, aimed at improving software engineering education by creat…

  • Improving Engineering Students’ Learning through Oral Exams

    In this lightning talk, we will share the findings from a three-year study on oral exams in engineering courses and spark discussions among faculty interested …

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