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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  • Course Structural Messaging: Integrated Support for Epistemology, Growth Mindset, and Sense of Belon

    Need: Though approaches for positively impacting students’ epistemology, growth mindset, and sense of belonging have been developed, these approaches often con…

  • Conservation Principles, Illustrated: Analyzing the Impact of Comics on Educational Engineering

    One of the major obstacles to effective learning in STEM is the abstract nature of many core STEM concepts. While traditional approaches include examples of re…

  • Exploring alternative perspectives through fictionalized student dialogues

    Research-based instructional strategies often use fictionalized student dialogues (FSD) to encourage students to explore diverse ideas and perspectives. This s…

  • Developing pre-service teachers’ culturally and linguistically sustaining STEM pedagogies

    The Next Generation Science Standards highly emphasize language demands in science practices, which increases challenges to both teachers and students includin…

  • Local wearable cooling may improve thermal comfort, emotion, and cognition

    Local wearable cooling may improve thermal comfort, emotion, and cognitionAbstract:Need: Extreme heat during summer could pose a threat to students’ thermal co…

  • Toward an online platform for learning neuroanatomy from neural connectivity

    TitleToward an online platform for learning neuroanatomy from neural connectivityNeedThe increasing number of undergraduates in neuroscience courses has create…

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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.