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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  • Using Avida-ED to Teach Evolution and the Nature of Science

    Avida-ED is a freely available digital evolution software package developed to help students learn about evolution and the nature of science. Avida-ED was deve…

  • Using rigorous undergraduate research in finding dysfunctional curricular items.

    Herein we describe our successes in identifying dysfunctional curricular pieces. Our methods are embedded in undergraduate research that inform new curricular …

  • Robotic Telescope Labs for Survey-Level Undergraduates

    Over the past two decades, UNC-Chapel Hill has built one of the largest networks of fully automated, or robotic, telescopes in the world, significantly advanci…

  • The Vertically Integrated Projects (VIP) Program: Scalable Undergraduate Research

    While undergraduate research is a high-impact experience associated with greater learning gains, higher graduation rates, and compensatory gains for marginaliz…

  • Improving UREs for STEM Majors and Pre-Service Teachers via Berkeley Undergraduate Research Tools

    Undergraduate research experiences (UREs) are widely believed to be a valuable component of undergraduate STEM education, yet there has been little systematic …

  • Improving Web Accessibility with Accessible Learning Labs

    Approximately 15-20% of the world's population has a form of disability. Unfortunately, much of the software being created today is not being created in an acc…

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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.