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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  • Undergraduate Research in STEM during the First Two Years of College Education: A Formula for All.

    Embracing the NSF IUSE theme of institutional and community transformation, Cuesta College leveraged its award to develop a research culture at the community c…

  • Undergraduate Teaching and Learning with Mathematics Open-Source Textbooks (UTMOST)

    Free, open-source, dynamic textbooks for university mathematics courses are easily available for students and instructors and have been praised as being great …

  • Understanding Context: Propagation of a Concept-Based Technology Tool in Diverse Settings

    Need: Concept-based learning is a form of active learning which is the use of activity-based pedagogies whose primary objectives are to make students value dee…

  • Using Artificial Intelligence to Support Open-Ended Problem Solving in Chemistry

    Need: Chemistry is an important gateway course for STEM careers, and the quantitative problem solving aspects of this course are one of the biggest barriers to…

  • Using Data-Centric Resources and Pedagogies in Introductory Statistics Courses (StatPREP)

    Need: The 2016 report A Common Vision for Undergraduate Mathematical Sciences Programs in 2025 (Saxe & Braddy) included a challenge for the mathematics and…

  • Using Degree Experience Plans to Improve Engagement, Retention, and Diversity of CS Undergraduates

    The need: We believe that STEM disciplines such as computer science must develop new and better ways to improve: (1) engagement (i.e. wider interest in pursuin…

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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.