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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  • Closing Equity Gaps: How an Ecological Belonging Intervention in Engineering Affects Students

    Women and Black, Latinx, and Indigenous (BLI) students in undergraduate engineering courses continue to underperform otherwise-similar peers based on their pri…

  • Identification of Threshold Concepts for Intermediate Computer Science Courses

    Need:Computational thinking (CT) has been identified and championed by many as one of the necessary skills for all modern people regardless of long-term educat…

  • Rehearsal sessions support teaching assistants’ use of error framing which impacts students

    Many STEM departments have adopted student-centered active learning curricula into undergraduate discussion and lab courses. However, graduate teaching assista…

  • Examining student outcomes from a novel data science CURE at a HBCU

    Need:This project builds on the American Association for the Advancement of Science ’s 2011 Vision and Change call for increased engagement of undergraduate st…

  • PAC-Math Protocol: A Flexible Tool for Assessing Departmental GTA PDT Programs

    NeedMost PhD-granting mathematics departments provide Professional Development for Teaching (PDT) to Graduate student Teaching Assistants (GTAs). In order to s…

  • Project Adelante: An Anti-deficit PD Program for University Mathematics Instructors

    We share the design of a year-long professional development program for university math instructors that we developed and refined as the Anti-deficit Learning …

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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.