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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  • Creating Courses that Integrate Science and Culture: Facilitating Learning Across Three Knowledge Domains

    (Caption: Image from the Florentine Codex depicting the importance and knowledge of agriculture in 16th century Aztec culture.)In this blog, a historian of sci…

  • What is a Skill-Based Curricular Overlay (SBCO), and how can it help your STEM teaching?

    This lightning talk will introduce a novel curricular framework, developed as part of an NSF-IUSE grant, that instructors across STEM disciplines can apply to …

  • More than a token photo: humanizing scientists enhances student engagement

    Despite broad consensus that highlighting counter-stereotypical scientist role models in educational materials promotes equity and success, the specific elemen…

  • More than Words: Analyzing Conversation to Explore Cognitive Engagement in Active Learning

    This talk reports on a project exploring cognitive engagement in active learning, highlighting how insights from applied linguistics can enhance the analysis o…

  • Preparing Students to Participate in Authentic, Collaborative Computing Environments

    The OpenPace project introduces students to Humanitarian Free and Open Source Software (HFOSS) in support of multiple objectives. First, HFOSS provides excelle…

  • STEM Fluency: Expanding the effectiveness, equity, and relevance of online learning of STEM skills

    It is well documented that students often struggle with relatively basic STEM skills used in introductory physics courses, such as algebra, trigonometry, and v…

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