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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  • Developing Optical Devices and Projects to Improve Undergraduates’ Research and Design Skills

    NeedProject-based learning is generally regarded as an excellent approach for undergraduate engineering education, but also one that requires significant resou…

  • Introducing Data Science Topics to Non-Computing Majors

    This workshop will focus on teaching data science at an introductory level to college students in non-computing majors, including a discussion of the major top…

  • Sketchtivity, an Intelligent Tutoring Software: Improving Sketching Skills for Engineers

    Sketching is a crucial skill in engineering, yet sketching education has continued to take a smaller role in engineering curriculum since the transition to Com…

  • Broadening the Path to the STEM Profession Through Cybersecurity Learning

    Understanding NSF Clouds and Software-Defined Networking (SDN) for Computer Networking and Security EducationHands-on lab experiments have been an integral par…

  • The importance of validity testing – Goal Orientation and Goal Affordance

    NeedWe proposed to combine two high-impact practices - undergraduate research and service learning - in the context of service learning, course-based undergrad…

  • The Role of Sketching in Engineering and Impacts of an Intelligent Tutoring Software, Sketchtivity

    Freehand sketching is an essential skill for engineers. Sketching enables designers to represent ideas rapidly and offload working memory. Sketching frequently…

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