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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  • Perceptions and Student Performance in Early Engineering Laboratory Writing

    NeedEffective communication is the most highly cited outcome in higher education, whether the surveyed are students, faculty, or employers. Early lab courses a…

  • Polar Explorer – A Virtual Learning Environment for Polar Science Education

    Need: We recently began a 5-year IUSE project to develop a new digital learning environment called Polar Explorer. The Arctic is underlain by permafrost, a lay…

  • Predicting and disrupting inequitable patterns in engineering student teamwork: To-date results

    In a poster describing to-date work on our NSF IUSE project, we present evidence collected on a tool for identifying and disrupting marginalization in student …

  • Inviting early college students to be mathematicians

    This poster will share preliminary findings from work that investigates the ways in which student-led mathematics research projects, conducted early in student…

  • iVisit: Using Virtual Humans in 360 Immersive Digital Site Visits of Complex Spatiotemporal Contexts

    Need: Site visits have been a tool utilized by STEM educators to engage students in active learning, assist traditional lessons, and attain stronger and deeper…

  • Improving Online Learning with Tutorial Dialog Videos

    Online courses have become a cost-effective, flexible alternative form of delivery for college-level courses, especially during the outbreak of the COVID-19 pa…

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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.