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Applying New Research to Improve Science Education, Carl Wieman, Issues in Science and Technology, Fall 2012.

Discipline-Based Education Research: Understanding and Improving Learning in Undergraduate Science and Engineering, National Research Council, The National Academies Press, 2012.

Engage to Excel: Producing One Million Additional College Graduates with Degrees in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), 2012.

The Engineer of 2020: Visions of Engineering in the New Century, National Research Council, The National Academies Press, 2004.

Expanding Underrepresented Minority Participation: America's Science and Technology Talent at the Crossroads, Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy (COSEPUP); IOM; PGA; and NAE, The National Academies Press, 2011.

How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School, National Research Council, The National Academies Press, 2000.

The LSC Guide: Planning for Assessing 21st Century Spaces for 21st Century Learners, Jeanne Narum, ed., The Learning Spaces Collaboratory (LSC), 2013.

A New Biology for the 21st Century, The National Academies Press, 2009.

Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness, Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein, Yale University Press, 2008.

Organizational Learning Is Essential to Achieving and Sustaining Change in Higher Education, Mary E. Boyce, Innovative Higher Education, 2003.

Promising Practices in Undergraduate Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education: Summary of Two Workshops, National Research Council, The National Academies Press, 2011.

Promoting Evidence-Based Change in Undergraduate Science Education, Ann E. Austin, Paper Commissioned by the National Academies National Research Council Board on Science Education, 2011.

Proposed Revisions to the Common Rule for the Protection of Human Subjects in the Behavioral and Social Sciences, National Research Council, The National Academies Press, 2014.

Rethinking Scale: Moving Beyond Numbers to Deep and Lasting Change, Cynthia E. Coburn, Educational Researcher, 2003.

Teaching About Evolution and the Nature of Science, National Research Council, The National Academies Press, 1998.