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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  • Engaging Faculty in Discipline Based Education Research through Learning Communities

    While over 60% of undergraduate students start college by attending a community college, less than 5% of educational research is conducted in the community col…

  • Development of an Active-Learning, Multimedia, Biomedically-Relevant Introductory Physics Curriculum

    This workshop will share the on-going IUSE-funded development/design/assessment of a new type of active-learning introductory physics curriculum – one directed…

  • Sketchtivity, an Intelligent Tutoring Software: Improving Sketching Skills for Engineers

    Sketching is a crucial skill in engineering, yet sketching education has continued to take a smaller role in engineering curriculum since the transition to Com…

  • Step-Based Tutoring as a Tool to Support both Remote and In-Person Learning of Diverse Students

    A key current issue is making high-quality education accessible to non-traditional students who are unable to attend college in person for four years, as exemp…

  • Researching Apun: Students Using Local, Traditional, and Science Knowledge Bases to Investigate Arct

    Student engagement in STEM increases when research activities are included in the curriculum. These research experiences, when paired with Culturally Relevant …

  • Rethinking introductory physics for pre-health and life-science majors

    Need: There is a need to reform undergraduate pre-health physics instruction in what is commonly referred to as Introductory Physics for the Life Sciences or I…

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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.