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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  • Improving and Sustaining Inclusive Classroom Environments in Engineering

    Women and underrepresented students in STEM are more likely to encounter gender and racially stigmatizing experiences which undermine achievement and impact st…

  • Improving Ethical Thinking Among Future Technologists Through Role-Play Case Studies

    Algorithmic thinking refers to breaking down a process into systematic, step-by-step instructions that can be completed by humans or machines and is the founda…

  • Experiences in Managing Large, Multi-Institution Research Projects

    Need. The future of research is about transdisciplinary collaboration that explores how intersected disciplinary perspectives can effectively address important…

  • ExplainIt: Improving Student Learning with Explanation-based Classroom Response Systems

    1. NeedThis project aims to create an innovative explanation-based classroom response system, ExplainIt, that provides real-time support to undergraduate STEM …

  • Exploratory Learning Activities in Undergraduate STEM Courses

    Need: Exploratory learning is an active-learning technique that has been shown to improve students’ conceptual understanding. Exploratory learning reverses the…

  • Exploring Students’ Learning of Data Analysis in a Three-Dimensional Lab Environment

    Need: Current movements to reform undergraduate lab courses build on the K-12 Next Generation Science Standards vision with its emphasis on scientific practice…

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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.