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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  • Universal Design for Learning Instructional Practice Observation Protocol

    Need: While students vary in their needs, abilities, and interests, postsecondary instructors often do not know how to provide support for some types of learne…

  • Rebuilding and Reinforcing Creativity Through Assessment in Engineering Students and Practitioners

    When Cropley and Cropley proposed promotion of creativity through assessment, they did so in terms of individuals in the general population. Engineering studen…

  • Making Computation Normal Across the Physics Curriculum at IUPUI

    NeedThis project addresses a critical need: updating the physics curriculum to bring our students’ learning in line with the way physics is practiced, and to e…

  • Measurements for Learning and Practice: The Revised Calculus Concept Inventory

    Calculus has been a gatekeeping course in many colleges and universities. Students who struggle with their first course in calculus have difficulty progressing…

  • Mobile Hands-On Experiments and Collaborative Learning

    Experiential learning can be a very effective way of getting students to interact with the engineering concepts and see them in action shortly before or after …

  • Improving Undergraduate Success through Effective Critical Thinking (iUSE-CT)

    Data for engineering programs across the country indicates a large gap between first-year retention rates and graduation rates for engineering students placing…

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