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

  • Patching Together a Plan for Student Success

    Let us explore where innovative learning environments are best used to make learning more accessible and education more flexible and equitable, complementing t…

  • Advancing Interdisciplinary Undergraduate STEM Education for Increased Workforce Preparation

    How do we engage STEM students in interdisciplinary learning to better prepare them for the workforce? In this workshop, speakers share their experiences desig…

  • Environmental Technology and Data Literacy: Holistic Scientists for 21st Century STEM Careers

    Need: To develop and evaluate innovative methods for promoting discipline-specific data literacy in environmental science among undergraduate STEM students, Sa…

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  • Teaching algebra through physics-of-motion activities

    Preservice elementary and middle school teachers are often taught mathematics as if it were an isolated subject, a set of abstract algorithms lacking deeper me…

  • Robotic Telescope Labs for Survey-Level Undergraduates

    Over the past two decades, UNC-Chapel Hill has built one of the largest networks of fully automated, or robotic, telescopes in the world, significantly advanci…

  • Succeeding in Introductory Physics: Building math fluency in a physics context

    Need: Students often struggle with relatively basic mathematics used in introductory physics courses. This project is aimed at investigating the nature and ext…

  • Leveraging the Physics Inventory of Quantitative Literacy to Assess Reasoning in STEM Courses

    Productive mathematical sensemaking is a habit of mind common to students who are successful in learning many science disciplines. It underpins introductory ph…

  • Exploring the Impact of Robotic Telescope-Based Observing Experiences on Students’ Learning

    Students - From Telescope Access to Research: Remote telescope access has recently grown to be a large part of many formal and informal science education exper…

  • Insights from the Enhancing the Quality of Undergraduate Investigations in Physical Science (EQUIPS)

    Need: Prospective elementary teachers are often provided little to no opportunities to both plan and carry out their own scientific investigations during their…

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