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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  • 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…

  • Smartphone Simulations for the Introductory Astronomy Classroom

    This poster will describe our project on the design and study of smartphone simulations, innovative tools for improving students’ understanding of astronomy co…

  • 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…

  • Quantitative Network Analysis for Benchmarking and Improving Makerspaces

    This project aims to better understand how students are using makerspaces. Using makerspaces to support engineering coursework can have mixed effects on studen…

  • 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…

  • Software Tutors for Learning Good Coding Practices

    NeedToo often, students write poor code - code that is correct, but is hard to read, modify or extend. Since the code is correct, students have no incentive to…

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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.