Engage to Excel: Producing One Million Additional College Graduates with Degrees in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. Report to the President.

By Steve Olson, Donna Gerardi Riordan. 2012

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The ICAP Active Learning Framework Predicts the Learning Gains Observed in Intensely Active Classroom Experiences (2017, methodology): “Interrater reliability calculated with the intraclass correlation ranged from moderate to strong depending on the observer pair (0.62–0.85; Landis & Koch, 1977; Portney & Watkins, 2000).”
The Effects of a Female Role Model on Academic Performance and Persistence of Women in STEM Courses (2016, background): “To meet this demand, American universities need to produce 100,000 additional graduates in STEM fields per year (Holden & Lander, 2012).”
Fidelity of Implementation of Research‐Based Instructional Strategies (RBIS) in Engineering Science Courses (2013, background): “Additional support for the benefits of peer instruction for both promoting conceptual understanding and problem-solving skills in calculus is provided by Pilzer (2001).”
An integrative review of in-class activities that enable active learning in college science classroom settings (2017, background): “Despite persistent calls for science education reform to incorporate active learning opportunities (Handelsman & Brown, 2016; Olson & Riordan, 2012), the subject can be polarising among faculty (Prince, 2004).”