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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  • SUMMIT-P: Building Interdisciplinary Teaching Partnerships

    In conjunction with the Committee on Curriculum Renewal Across the First Two Years (CRAFTY) of the Mathematical Association of America (MAA), a consortium of e…

  • Supporting recognition and reasoning about feedback loops with causal loop diagrams

    Need: Feedback loops offer explanatory and predictive power around many phenomena that matter to students, employers, society, and the planet. Feedback loops h…

  • The STEM Culturally Inclusive Teaching Institute: A Blended Faculty Professional Development Project

    OverviewThe STEM Equity Institute on Culturally Inclusive Teaching is a 3-year project that seeks to broaden participation in STEM career fields by students fr…

  • Implementing a Framework for Assessing Teaching Effectiveness

    Need: Teaching evaluation protocols in higher education are inadequate, inaccurate, do not enhance teaching, nor incentivize improvement. This leads to reduced…

  • 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…

  • Measuring and Improving Physics Quantitative Literacy throughout the Undergraduate Curriculum

    Need: Physics quantitative literacy (PQL) is a ubiquitous and vital skill, but there is mounting evidence that students’ PQL doesn’t improve much as a result o…

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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.