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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  • Collaborative Research: Changing Homework Achievement with Mechanix Pedagogy (CHAMP)

    Need:Many introductory engineering courses in universities have hundreds of students, and some online classes are even larger. Instructors in these circumstanc…

  • College Mathematics Instructor Preparation Design Tool: Helping Departments Grow their Teaching

    Need. A significant and continuing challenge to undergraduate student success is the uneven quality of instruction in college mathematics courses. The last dec…

  • Communities to support faculty implementing research-based instructional strategies

    Need: The adoption and use of research-based instructional strategies (RBIS) is far from universal. It is important to attend to how faculty learn about, take …

  • Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences as a Mechanism for Institutional Change

    Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences (CUREs) have been identified as a possible mechanism to address equity and a lack of diversity across STEM (Ban…

  • The Mathematical Inquiry Project: Effecting Widespread, Sustainable Instructional Change

    Summary:The Mathematical Inquiry Project (MIP) is an NSF-funded collaboration of mathematics faculty from all 27 public institutions of higher education in Okl…

  • Understanding the Impacts of DATs on Departmental Change and on Undergraduate Success

    Educational change initiatives have been criticized for not accounting for cultural barriers to change, leading to low adoption. The Departmental Action Team (…

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