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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  • IMAGES of STEM: Building Strategies to Support Undergraduate STEM Students at an HBCU

    Access to high quality education in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) is a necessity for students to explore the opportunities, meet the…

  • SedimentSketch, teaching tool in and beyond the sedimentology classroom

    Need: In 2022, Texas A&M University was awarded the status of an HSI (Hispanic Serving Institution) serving 25% of the undergraduate student population (Hi…

  • Intervention to Improve Metacognition and Problem Solving Skills in First-Year Engineering Students

    Metacognition refers to the processes used to plan, monitor, and assess understanding and performance. Zimmerman’s self-regulated learning (SRL) model is used …

  • Supporting recognition and reasoning about feedback loops with causal loop diagrams

    Need: Feedback loops offer explanatory and predictive power around many phenomena that matter to students, employers, society, and the planet. Feedback loops h…

  • Free-Body Diagram Mobile Application Boosts Student Learning and Women’s Self-Efficacy

    Free-Body Diagram Mobile Application Boosts Student Learning and Women’s Self-EfficacyFree-body diagrams are a key skill used by many of the 600,000 students w…

  • Measuring and Improving Physics Quantitative Literacy throughout the Undergraduate Curriculum

    Need: Physics quantitative literacy (PQL) is a ubiquitous and vital skill, but there is mounting evidence that students’ PQL doesn’t improve much as a result o…

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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.