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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  • Talking about why: Linking research and theory to efforts to build racial equity in STEM

    Achieving racial equity in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) requires race-conscious approaches that bring disproportionate benefit to u…

  • Teaching: The best-kept secret! Changing the conversation about STEM teaching careers

    Did you know? Half of STEM majors are interested in teaching as a profession, and STEM students of color are more interested in teaching as a profession than t…

  • The Vertically Integrated Projects (VIP) Program: Scalable Undergraduate Research

    While undergraduate research is a high-impact experience associated with greater learning gains, higher graduation rates, and compensatory gains for marginaliz…

  • Insights from the First Year of Project # 2044472 “Improving the Conceptual Mastery of Engineering

    This project aims to enhance students’ learning in foundational engineering courses through oral exams. The adaptive dialogic nature of oral exams provides ins…

  • National training in inclusive stem teaching: Status, initial outcomes and cycles of improvement

    Practicing inclusive STEM instruction requires an understanding of the challenges learners face and developing strategies that actively support their success. …

  • Neurocognitive evidence on creativity and diversity: implications for inclusive STEM education

    Recent neurocognitive and behavioral research has led to important insights into creative thinking in undergraduate students and the extent to which the neural…

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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.