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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  • Promoting Active Learning Professional Development Across Institution Types to Improve Undergraduate

    The Promoting Research-based Instructional Methods for Enhancing and Reforming STEM Education (PRIMERS) project, funded by NSF, facilitates the movement of col…

  • Promoting systems thinking and perspective-taking in the STEM classroom through modeling

    Being open-minded about controversial issues is essential for problem-solving and informed decision-making. We investigated the use of building “mental models”…

  • PULSE: An Online Platform Fusing Predictive Models and Productive Struggle in Programming Courses

    Lack of self-efficacy has been identified as a significant barrier for students in introductory computer science courses. Research indicates that enhancing sel…

  • Role of Personalized Adaptive Learning in Undergraduate Mathematics Outcomes: A meta-analysis

    This talk presents preliminary results of a meta-analysis that examines personalized adaptive learning (PAL) in undergraduate mathematics and shares insight on…

  • Squirrel-Net: a field-based, ecological CURE series that is bringing undergraduate students together

    Research experiences allow undergraduate students to gain confidence in overcoming obstacles, learn the process of inquiry, and develop an identity as scientis…

  • Starting a Community of Practice for Equitable Grading Practices in Computer Science

    Traditional grading practices where points are allocated to assignments, mistakes result in point deductions, and assignment scores are combined using some for…

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