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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  • Transdisciplinary Learning Ecosystem Model to Promote a Sense of Belonging and Career Competencies

    Culturally relevant, place-based Earth science curricula addressing today’s societal issues can promote student engagement and motivation, especially for those…

  • Virtual Galápagos: A Design-Based Approach to Training Pre-Service Elementary STEM Teachers

    This talk presents initial outcomes from a novel, two-year pilot program for pre-service elementary teachers called Virtual Galápagos.The program’s primary goa…

  • Vision and Change and Interactions in General Education Life Science (IGELS) Courses

    The main goal of the IGELS (Interactions in General Education Life Science courses) Project is to determine the extent to which any principles and recommendati…

  • ZotGraph: Engaging Students with Complex Topics through Knowledge Graphs

    A core challenge in education is making the conceptual connections between different topics legible to students. We have developed and tested an interactive sy…

  • 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…

  • Pedagogical Interventions in Undergraduate Courses – Science Communication to Nonscientific Audience

    Scientific communication to non-scientific audience has taken on an urgent renewed interest and importance, in light of the recent COVID pandemic as well as ot…

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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.