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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  • Student Learning and Transfer in Multi-Disciplinary Introductory Physics Labs

    First-year engineering students are typically enrolled in large enrollment introductory STEM courses across their first two semesters in college. These courses…

  • Using Low-Cost CO2 Sensors to Improve STEM Identity and Retention in Gateway STEM Courses

    The Inclusive Research-based Interdisciplinary Science Education (iRISE) Project seeks to decrease the racial and gender equity gap in students pursuing STEM e…

  • IUSE: EHR:ESL1:Expanding Scientific Opportunity With a Digital Course Based Undergraduate Research

    Title: DCURE (Digital Course Based Undergraduate Research Experience): expanding student opportunities in research in quantitative plant biologyStudents engagi…

  • 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…

  • Conservation Principles, Illustrated: Analyzing the Impact of Comics on Educational Engineering

    One of the major obstacles to effective learning in STEM is the abstract nature of many core STEM concepts. While traditional approaches include examples of re…

  • Exploring alternative perspectives through fictionalized student dialogues

    Research-based instructional strategies often use fictionalized student dialogues (FSD) to encourage students to explore diverse ideas and perspectives. This s…

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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.