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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  • Optimize Student Learning through Personalized Instruction and Need-aware Gaming (PING)

    Need: Continuing efforts to increase the quality of student education has led to an increasing need for automated systems that can personalize a student’s lear…

  • Organizational Change Networks (OCNs): A Framework for Systemic Reform in support of STEM Education

    Project Importance Improving undergraduate STEM education for all students remains an elusive goal, despite robust evidence on how to advance learning. In addi…

  • Perceptions and Student Performance in Early Engineering Laboratory Writing

    NeedEffective communication is the most highly cited outcome in higher education, whether the surveyed are students, faculty, or employers. Early lab courses a…

  • Piloting a multi-site data science CURE to increase STEM persistence among minority students

    The national need for students from diverse populations to enter the STEM workforce or graduate school is high. This research aims to increase the retention an…

  • Polar Explorer – A Virtual Learning Environment for Polar Science Education

    Need: We recently began a 5-year IUSE project to develop a new digital learning environment called Polar Explorer. The Arctic is underlain by permafrost, a lay…

  • Pre-Service Elementary Teachers as Mathematical Modelers

    Standards advocate for pre-service K-8 teachers (PSTs) to have the tools to effectively integrate mathematical modeling into their teaching practices. To under…

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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.