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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  • Numerical Skills as a Barrier to Entry to STEM: Results from General Education Science Courses

    Much of the dialogue surrounding effective pedagogy for college-level general education science courses has been focused on how best to engender "science lite…

  • Ocean Science Research Opportunities for Community College Students at WHOI

    Community colleges contain an untapped source of diverse and talented students. The students tend to be local, non-traditional, socio-economically disadvantage…

  • Opening the GATE: Advancing Teaching Evaluation in Departments

    At many institutions, STEM departments do not adequately evaluate teaching (Dennin et al., 2017). As a result, they cannot incentivize or reward the use of evi…

  • Passion-Driven Statistics: A Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience

    Passion-Driven Statistics is a course-based undergraduate research experience (CURE) that has been used in statistics courses, research methods courses, mathem…

  • PEARLS (Provide Educational Access to Research & Learning in GeoscienceS) of Wisdom

    Geoscience is one of the least diverse disciplines in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). One pathway to change this statistic is to lever…

  • Pedagogical Interventions in Undergraduate Courses – Science Communication to Nonscientific Audience

    Scientific communication to non-scientific audience has taken on an urgent renewed interest and importance, in light of the recent COVID pandemic as well as ot…

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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.