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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  • Overcoming Impediments to Successful Code Understanding: Scaling Up Automated Methods and Broadening

    For more infomration please view the poster and abstract in the Additional Resources section.CoauthorsGloria Washington, Howard University, Washington, DC; Sur…

  • Effect of Student Autonomy on Student Outcomes in a Multi-Institution CURE

    Effect of Student Autonomy on Student Outcomes in a Multi-Institution CUREChristopher W. Beck, Nicole M. Gerardo, Anupriya Karippadath, Sinead N. Younge, Lawre…

  • Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences (CUREs): Incorporating STEM Research into the Curriculum

    Conducting original research is shown to improve a student’s efficacy and sense of belonging in STEM. Learn how to design courses around undergraduates' resear…

  • Using a Modularity Analysis to Characterize the Effective Use of Makerspaces

    Need: Makerspaces are a new and impactful tool in the engineering educators’ toolbox. Ensuring these spaces effectively grow and meet their full potential requ…

  • Using Avida-ED to Teach Evolution and the Nature of Science

    Avida-ED is a freely available digital evolution software package developed to help students learn about evolution and the nature of science. Avida-ED was deve…

  • Using rigorous undergraduate research in finding dysfunctional curricular items.

    Herein we describe our successes in identifying dysfunctional curricular pieces. Our methods are embedded in undergraduate research that inform new curricular …

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