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 Learning Environments for Undergraduate STEM Education.
  • CyberMUG: Cybersecurity Modules aligned with UG Computer Science and Engineering Curriculum

    NeedDue to a lack of integrated cybersecurity content in regular CSE/CE (computer science & engineering/ computer engineering) programs and additional chal…

  • Designing and testing Attending to Conceptual Resources in Physics (ACORN-Physics) tutorials

    The 2021 National Academies report “Call to Action for Science Education: Building Opportunity for the Future” calls for student science experiences that “prov…

  • Development of a Data-Driven Pathway into STEM

    NeedSTEM classes, particularly introductory computer science and engineering classes, traditionally have few women (Kahn et al., 2017) and under-represented mi…

  • Effects of Symmetric and Asymmetric Manipulatives on Spatial Skills Training

    Need: Spatial skills are not only important in daily life, but also essential for learning STEM subjects. Research has shown that a positive correlation exists…

  • Engaging Non-Science Majors in Authentic Research through Citizen Science

    Every year, hundreds of thousands of college students enroll in general education science courses to fulfill their institution’s liberal arts requirement. Upon…

  • Engineering Ethics Through High-Impact Collaborative/Competitive Scenarios (E-ETHICCS)

    Ethics education has been recognized as increasingly important to engineering over the past two decades. Different models exist for how ethics can and should b…

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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.