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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  • Individualizing instruction at scale with cognitive diagnostics

    Need: Instructors and students benefit from feedback when it is timely, actionable, and accurate. Researchers can leverage longitudinal, fine-grained data coll…

  • The Team Member Perceptions of Instructional Change Collaborations (TM-PICC) Survey

    Need: Much progress has been made in understanding how to foster undergraduate learning in STEM courses. Team-based approaches to improving undergraduate STEM …

  • Exploring the Impact of Observation Protocol Data in Changing Instructor Motivation and Practice

    Need In the past decade, many groups have created structured observation protocols to understand and measure particular components of teaching. Examples of the…

  • Exploring the Impact of POGIL on Student Engagement and Conceptual Understanding

    Need:Numerous studies have shown that evidence-based teaching strategies, such as Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning (POGIL), lead to better student outc…

  • Scaffolding & Tools for Instructors in Guided Inquiry Learning (STIGIL)

    Need: In social constructivism, students interact and collaborate to construct their own understanding; this increases student motivation, content learning, sk…

  • Strategies for providing scalable and actionable feedback to students on professional skills

    SkillBuilder Project: Developing strategies for providing scalable and actionable feedback to students on professional skill developmentThe goal of the SkillBu…

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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.