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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  • Exploratory Learning Activities in Undergraduate STEM Courses

    Need: Exploratory learning is an active-learning technique that has been shown to improve students’ conceptual understanding. Exploratory learning reverses the…

  • Exploring Students’ Learning of Data Analysis in a Three-Dimensional Lab Environment

    Need: Current movements to reform undergraduate lab courses build on the K-12 Next Generation Science Standards vision with its emphasis on scientific practice…

  • Exploring students’ socio-metacognitive experiences

    Need: Research-based instructional materials often use an elicit - confront - resolve strategy to guide students toward formal science concepts (e.g., Tutorial…

  • Exploring Transdisciplinary Approaches To STEM Teaching and Learning

    To meet the challenges of the 21st Century, students will have to operate within transdisciplinary contexts. The National Academies has recognized the need to …

  • FossilSketch: first results of classroom testing

    Need: The microfossil remains that are preserved in sediments play key roles in determining the ages of geologic records, reconstructing paleoenvironments, and…

  • Graphical Literacy for STEM Students: Testing the Effects of Context and Scaffolding During Learning

    Need: Graphical data displays are ubiquitous in introductory STEM courses and textbooks (e.g., Brown et al., 2015; Kump et al., 2010; Myers, 2013; Reece et al.…

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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.