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…

results in Supporting Students.
  • Noticing in Mathematics for Student Success (NIMS²)

    NeedNIMS² is a three-year IUSE project that aims to design, test, and disseminate a video-based curriculum that develops noticing competencies and responsive a…

  • Free-Body Diagram Mobile Application Boosts Student Learning and Women’s Self-Efficacy

    Free-Body Diagram Mobile Application Boosts Student Learning and Women’s Self-EfficacyFree-body diagrams are a key skill used by many of the 600,000 students w…

  • Fostering First-Year Engineering Students’ Interest in Pursuing Hardware Engineering Careers

    NeedThe semiconductor and digital electronics field is undergoing rapid changes with continuous progress in integrating Artificial Intelligence (AI), expanding…

  • The Doing Physics Model – Strengthening Physics Achievement via Research and Collaboration (SPARC)

    Need – Challenges shared by students studying physics, especially those dependent on prior preparation from under-resourced school districts, include underdeve…

  • Leveraging Course-Based Communities of Transformation to Effect Change in STEM Education

    Need: Describe why this project is important and what needs it fulfills.Literature shows that student engagement through active and inquiry-based learning impr…

  • Individualizing instruction at scale with cognitive diagnostics

    Need: Instructors and students benefit from feedback when it is timely, actionable, and accurate. Researchers can leverage longitudinal, fine-grained data coll…

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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.