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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  • Supporting conceptual learning and disciplinary thinking in STEM through peer review and revision

    Writing-to-learn is an instructional pedagogy focused on using writing to support students’ conceptual understanding and disciplinary thinking. However, instru…

  • An Expansive Version of Community Engagement: Extension, Service Learning, and Classroom Instruction

    Twenty-five years after the publication of the seminal Kellogg Commission report, their vision for “…institutions that have redesigned their teaching, research…

  • Equity-Focused, Evidence-Based Proactive Advising in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

    This project aims to serve the national interest by improving persistence and commitment to the profession of engineering students by implementing a person-cen…

  • Writing for the client: a situated learning approach to improve engineering communication skills

    Need: Effective communication is valued in industry and linked with enhanced career progression, yet many engineering undergraduates lack these skills. Bridgin…

  • Exploring the Use of the Online Reasoning Chain Construction Assessment Approach in Intro. Chemistry

    Need: The Online Reasoning Chain Construction Assessment (ORCCA) project is being conducted by a team in chemistry and physics to develop a tool that has utili…

  • An Interactive Platform for Understanding Contemporary Sentiment and Trends on Pressing Issues

    Social media is pivotal in understanding public sentiment on pressing issues, offering real-time insights into the collective mood. Our platform leverages user…

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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.