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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  • Helping Students Remember: Can Spaced Retrieval Practice Improve STEM Course Performance?

    Background/Need: Easy-to-implement pedagogical strategies that can improve performance in STEM barrier courses are needed to increase the pool of students capa…

  • HOPE: A Quantitative Methodology to Determining the Effects of an Educational STEM Program.

    This analysis aims to construct a quantitative methodology that can evaluate the effectiveness of the Hostos Oasis for Parents’ Education (HOPE) program’s 3D m…

  • Impact of Holographic Scenes in Developing Students’ Competencies in Sensing Technologies

    Need: The growth in the adoption of sensing technologies in the construction industry has triggered the need for graduating construction-engineering students e…

  • Impact of Mindset Training for Supplemental Instructors and Faculty on STEM Courses at Small College

    Need: The impact of enhanced mindset training for peer Supplemental Instructors (SI) and supervising faculty in gateway STEM courses (Precalculus, Calculus I, …

  • ExplainIt: Improving Student Learning with Explanation-based Classroom Response Systems

    1. NeedThis project aims to create an innovative explanation-based classroom response system, ExplainIt, that provides real-time support to undergraduate STEM …

  • Cultivating Scientific Literacy and Action through Place: Campus Farm as Interdisciplinary Hub

    NeedWith the upswing in undergraduate interest in sustainability and community engagement, college campus farms—especially those at urban institutions—provide …

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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.