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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  • Improving Undergrad Education in Civil & Building Engineering through SCPS and Real-world Problems

    Need: Education research and theory show that active learning increases student learning and motivation. However, Civil and Building Engineering (CBE) addresse…

  • Improving Undergraduate Scientific Reasoning: Exploring the Role of Data Literacy Skills

    Need: Undergraduate students’ scientific reasoning skills are challenging to develop in undergraduate general-education science classes. Some research has show…

  • Infusing Design: Impact of Engineering Design in Physics Labs on Student Engagement and Perception

    Problem-solving is a critical skill in the workplace, but recent college graduates are often deficient in problem-solving skills. Introductory STEM courses pre…

  • Initial Work Towards a Mobile-Based Free Body Diagram Application

    Over 600,000 students enter an undergraduate engineering program in the United States every year. Many of these students learn to draw free body diagrams (FBDs…

  • Integrating Undergraduate Learning in Engineering and Business to Improve Manufacturing Education

    Manufacturing is undergoing the greatest change in more than 100 years, and the current skills gap causes serious concerns about the ability of manufacturers t…

  • Graphical Literacy for STEM Students: Testing the Effects of Context and Scaffolding During Learning

    Need: Graphical data displays are ubiquitous in introductory STEM courses and textbooks (e.g., Brown et al., 2015; Kump et al., 2010; Myers, 2013; Reece et al.…

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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.