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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  • Reimagining energy: A sociotechnical approach to an undergraduate engineering course

    Energy is a foundational concept across engineering disciplines, but it is often introduced to students in notoriously disengaging Thermodynamics courses. Many…

  • Research rescue: Designing flexible and resilient projects for uncertain times

    When the best-laid plans are interrupted by forces external to your project, how can you recover your research agenda? In our 3-year IUSE level 1 grant, our ca…

  • Intellectual Merits and Broader Impacts from the Transforming Introductory Biology at UAA project

    This poster will primarily showcase key outcomes, broader impacts, and lessons learned from our level 1 grant, which is in its final year with a no-cost extens…

  • Pivot! Unintended Benefits of a Virtual Summer Bridge Program

    Prior to Summer 2020, the STEM Center at SHSU offered a successful summer bridge program for students entering Calculus and Precalculus. The STEM Center’s summ…

  • RAPID: Impacts of Unprecedented Shift to Online Learning on Students’ Cognitive Load and Readiness f

    Need: Similar to other institutions of higher education, The Citadel shifted modalities throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Initially, face-to-face learning was …

  • Exploring Features of Active Learning Instruction that Undergraduate STEM Students Appreciated

    We describe undergraduate students’ perceptions of two innovative pedagogical models that were implemented simultaneously in a single mathematics course - a mo…

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