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…

… results in Institutional and Community Transformation.
  • Prevalence of and barriers to the adoption of high-impact teaching practices

    This project is using a Concerns-Based Adoption Model (CBAM) as the basis for acquiring data from stakeholders about the use of high-impact teaching practices …

  • The Mathematical Inquiry Project: Effecting Widespread, Sustainable Instructional Change

    Summary:The Mathematical Inquiry Project (MIP) is an NSF-funded collaboration of mathematics faculty from all 27 public institutions of higher education in Okl…

  • Understanding the Impacts of DATs on Departmental Change and on Undergraduate Success

    Educational change initiatives have been criticized for not accounting for cultural barriers to change, leading to low adoption. The Departmental Action Team (…

  • A quantitative analysis of instructor barriers for using course-based research experiences

    NEED: Course-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs) are an effective method of engaging students in authentic research experiences, but many instruct…

  • Using Data-Centric Resources and Pedagogies in Introductory Statistics Courses (StatPREP)

    Need: The 2016 report A Common Vision for Undergraduate Mathematical Sciences Programs in 2025 (Saxe & Braddy) included a challenge for the mathematics and…

  • Workshop on the Substance of STEM Education

    We are underprepared at multiple levels for the economic, environmental, and societal disruptions that accompany the advance of global civilization and technol…

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