CHEM 250: Being Human in STEM - Course Guide

A primary source is essentially any record or artifact from a given era that provides original documentary evidence of the time—like a snapshot of a given experience, taken by someone who was there. 

In the Humanities, primary sources typically include include diaries, photographs, letters, government documents, and newspaper and magazine articles (from the period under study).

Primary source documents in the Sciences focus on original research, ideas, or findings and are most often published in scholarly journals or presented at academic conferences.  They typically include sources such as published results of research studies, experiments, clinical trials, proceedings of conferences and meetings, patents, technical reports, and data.

Remixed with permission from https://guides.lib.uconn.edu/exploreinfo/sciences_primarysecondary

Survey Series:

Baccalaureate and Beyond- examines students’ education and work experiences after they complete a bachelor’s degree.

Beginning Postsecondary Students currently surveys cohorts of first-time, beginning students at three points in time: at the end of their first year, and then three and six years after first starting in postsecondary education.

Integrated Postsecondary Education System is a system of interrelated surveys conducted annually by the U.S. Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). IPEDS gathers information from every college, university, and technical and vocational institution that participates in the federal student financial aid programs. 

National Study of Postsecondary Faculty is the most comprehensive study of faculty in postsecondary educational institutions ever undertaken.

Reports on STEM