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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  • The Role of Sketching in Engineering and Impacts of an Intelligent Tutoring Software, Sketchtivity

    Freehand sketching is an essential skill for engineers. Sketching enables designers to represent ideas rapidly and offload working memory. Sketching frequently…

  • Revealing college biology student graphing practices with a digital performance-based assessment

    Need: A major barrier to improving teaching of complex skills in science is measuring them on larger scales. Evidence-based teaching depends on evidence, and w…

  • Studying the Characteristics of Equitable Mathematics Programs

    Need: There is a critical need to better understand what supports students, especially those who are members of marginalized and underrepresented groups, to su…

  • Supporting Non-Tenure Track Faculty through Professional Development: Considerations for Success

    Need: Higher education has fundamentally shifted the nature of its workforce in the last 20 years from mostly full-time, tenure track faculty to mostly conting…

  • Rethinking introductory physics for pre-health and life-science majors

    Need: There is a need to reform undergraduate pre-health physics instruction in what is commonly referred to as Introductory Physics for the Life Sciences or I…

  • Perceptions and Student Performance in Early Engineering Laboratory Writing

    NeedEffective communication is the most highly cited outcome in higher education, whether the surveyed are students, faculty, or employers. Early lab courses a…

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