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Ahmet Zeki Saka; J. Ebenezer; T. Saka – Science Insights Education Frontiers, 2024
The purpose of this study was to identify the the factors that influenced pre-service teachers' perceptions of their abilities to solve structured physics problems. 1185 pre-service teachers from different disciplines, enrolled in physics courses in one Turkish University from 2008 to 2017 participated in a descriptive survey. The factors…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Self Efficacy
Larsson, Johanna; Danielsson, Anna T. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
Underrepresentation of women in physics is a prominent issue in the western countries. Since physics teachers are in a unique position to affect new generations of students, it has been suggested that they are an important part of the solution. In this paper, we explore how trainee physics teachers create spaces for themselves as learners of…
Descriptors: Physics, Females, Science Education, Gender Differences
Palmira Peciuliauskiene – Cogent Education, 2023
This study examines the relationship between instructional clarity in physics lessons and students' motivation and self-confidence to learn physics. We conducted a secondary analysis of data from the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) 2019. Using data from six countries, whose students' science achievement scores were…
Descriptors: Physics, Motivation, Self Esteem, Achievement Tests
Parisi, Elizabeth; Masia, Giovanna; Reynolds, Cynthia; Richards, A. J. – Physics Teacher, 2023
A learner's perception of what a career in physics is like has a major impact on their decision to pursue physics professionally. This decision can also be influenced by a high school student's awareness of issues concerning diversity within the physics community. We surveyed current high school physics students and investigated their perception…
Descriptors: High School Students, Science Interests, STEM Careers, Physics
Johansson, Anders; Nyström, Anne-Sofie; Gonsalves, Allison J.; Danielsson, Anna T. – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2023
Higher education physics has long been a field with a disproportionately skewed representation in terms of gender, class, and ethnicity. Responding to this challenge, this study explores the trajectories of "unexpected" (i.e., demographically under-represented) students into higher education physics. Based on timeline-guided life-history…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Gender Differences, Social Class
Abraham, Jessy; Barker, Katrina – Research in Science Education, 2023
In recent decades, several countries have made efforts to close the historic gender gap in physics through curricular reforms. Research indicates that while the acute underrepresentation of females in physics courses and related careers is linked to a number of interlaced social, contextual and motivational factors, the personal relevance of…
Descriptors: Feminism, Physics, Curriculum Development, Student Attitudes
Bahng, E. J.; Hauptman, John; Lowery, Jennifer – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2023
This article describes and illustrates a physics course for first-year college students whose only knowledge of physics is that they do not like the subject. The physics content is driven entirely by what appears in the daily newspapers and generally covers most physics topics in a semester. This course was structured as a learning community that…
Descriptors: Physics, College Freshmen, Course Descriptions, Newspapers
Rizal, Rahmat – Physics Education, 2023
Digital literacy is a vital competency needed by physics teachers, so it should be trained through lectures using technology, one of which is LMS3. The study aims to describe the LMS3 implementation in school physics lectures to train digital literacy and elucidate an enhancement of prospective physics teachers' digital literacy in school physics…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Physics, Science Instruction, Science Teachers
Ellen Watson; Gregory Thomas – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2024
[This paper is part of the Focused Collection on Qualitative Methods in PER: A Critical Examination.] Epistemic beliefs about physics are most often investigated using quantitative instruments that reflect binary conceptualizations of those beliefs. This study reports from a qualitative study which used continua to represent the epistemic beliefs…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Beliefs, Physics, Foreign Countries
Cwik, Sonja; Singh, Chandralekha – Electronic Journal for Research in Science & Mathematics Education, 2023
The motivational beliefs of students, who were mainly bioscience majors interested in careers in health professions, in mandatory large introductory level algebra-based physics courses were surveyed. Although female students outnumbered male students in these courses, they had lower physics motivational beliefs including self-efficacy and identity…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Beliefs, Self Concept, Gender Differences
Jie Yang; Qing X. Ryan; Shiyu Gao; Xijia Guo – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
To explore the self-efficacy and physics identity of students across various physics career trajectories, as well as to delve into the motivations of male and female students in choosing to major in physics and pursue teaching, we conducted a survey within the Department of Physics at East China Normal University. This institution offers…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Self Efficacy, Self Concept, Student Attitudes
Charlotte Marshall Zimmerman – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Quantitative literacy---the use of mathematics to describe and understand the world---is an essential skill. Physics has an opportunity to contribute to how students develop quantitative literacy, as much of physics curriculum centers on making sense of quantitative models. One facet of quantitative literacy in physics is covariational reasoning:…
Descriptors: Physics, Introductory Courses, Thinking Skills, Mathematical Logic
McBride, Krista K. – Physics Teacher, 2023
It can be difficult to find ways to motivate students while teaching a physics course for non-physics students. Students come to class with many different attitudes and preconceptions, some of which are detrimental to their learning. As physics educators, we strive for student engagement and motivation in course material no matter what type of…
Descriptors: Physics, Nonmajors, Relevance (Education), Student Motivation
Robertson, Amy D.; V'elez, Verónica; Hairston, W. Tali; Bonilla-Silva, Eduardo – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
Mainstream physics teaching and learning produces material outcomes that, when analyzed through the lens of Critical Race Theory, point to white supremacy, or "the systemic maintenance of the dominant position that produces white privilege" (Battey & Levya, 2016). In particular, the continued, extreme underrepresentation of People of…
Descriptors: Racism, Physics, Science Education, Whites
Stanley, Bryan; Izadi, Dena; Fracchiolla, Claudia; Hinko, Kathleen – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
Physicists, physics students, and community members come together and engage with physics content through various forms of informal education programming. Our prior work has shown that the landscape of informal physics programs in the United States has a variety of formats, audience demographics, and content. Informal physics programs have many…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Education, College Faculty, College Students