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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  • 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…

  • Researching Apun: Students Using Local, Traditional, and Science Knowledge Bases to Investigate Arct

    Student engagement in STEM increases when research activities are included in the curriculum. These research experiences, when paired with Culturally Relevant …

  • Student Meaning Making & Interest Maintenance in a Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience

    Need and Guiding Question: Course-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs) are heralded as a great innovation in college STEM education, combining auth…

  • Measurement of Negative Mentoring in Undergraduate Research

    Need: Undergraduate research experiences have been shown to foster undergraduates’ personal and professional growth; mentoring by more experienced scientists i…

  • Mobile Hands-On Experiments and Collaborative Learning

    Experiential learning can be a very effective way of getting students to interact with the engineering concepts and see them in action shortly before or after …

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