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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  • Designing and testing Attending to Conceptual Resources in Physics (ACORN-Physics) tutorials

    The 2021 National Academies report “Call to Action for Science Education: Building Opportunity for the Future” calls for student science experiences that “prov…

  • Developing STEM Literacy and Career Paths through Inclusive Team Internships

    Need:STEM students develop science literacy skills through required science and mathematics courses. Non-STEM majors, on the other hand, often leave college wi…

  • Development and Implementation of a Multi-Year, CURE-based Chemistry Lab Curriculum

    NEEDCourse-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs) are a type of inquiry-based laboratory pedagogy in which students undertake an authentic, hypothesi…

  • Development of a Data-Driven Pathway into STEM

    NeedSTEM classes, particularly introductory computer science and engineering classes, traditionally have few women (Kahn et al., 2017) and under-represented mi…

  • Effects of Symmetric and Asymmetric Manipulatives on Spatial Skills Training

    Need: Spatial skills are not only important in daily life, but also essential for learning STEM subjects. Research has shown that a positive correlation exists…

  • Engagement Without Boundaries in an Engineering for Social Innovation Curriculum

    There is an emerging trend in engineering education where students are increasingly interested in “ways to leverage their engineering education to pursue impac…

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