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Little, Angela J.; Humphrey, Bridget; Green, Abigail; Nair, Abhilash; Sawtelle, Vashti – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2019
The mindset literature is a longstanding area of psychological research focused on beliefs about intelligence, response to challenge, and goals for learning. However, the mindset literature's applicability to the context of college physics has not been widely studied. In this paper we narrow our focus toward students' descriptions of their…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Educational Change
Tobin, R. G.; Lacy, Sara J.; Crissman, Sally – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
Kinetic energy is usually the entry point for the study of energy in physics and is often perceived as unproblematic. We present evidence, however, that some learners who seem to have accepted the concept, from elementary school students to college physics majors and in-service teachers, nevertheless do not consistently attribute kinetic energy to…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Scientific Concepts, Concept Formation
Khatri, Raina; Henderson, Charles; Cole, Renée; Froyd, Jeffrey E.; Friedrichsen, Debra; Stanford, Courtney – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2016
The physics education research community has produced a wealth of knowledge about effective teaching and learning of college level physics. Based on this knowledge, many research-proven instructional strategies and teaching materials have been developed and are currently available to instructors. Unfortunately, these intensive research and…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Educational Innovation, Models, Success
Dunleavy, Spencer; Kestin, Greg; Callaghan, Kristina; McCarty, Logan; Deslauriers, Louis – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2022
The typical introductory physics lecture requires students to consolidate and assimilate a large quantity of complex information that is often novel to them. This can leave students overwhelmed, slow the pace of their learning, and lower their motivation. We find that carefully designed multimedia summaries in the form of one-minute videos and…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Undergraduate Students
El-Adawy, Shams; Huynh, Tra; Kustusch, Mary Bridget; Sayre, Eleanor C. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2022
This paper investigates the interactions between context and professional development of physics instructors in a case study of two physics faculty. A phenomenological-case study approach was used to analyze two physics faculty at different institutions over a year and a half using three semistructured interviews each. The data enabled the…
Descriptors: Physics, Case Studies, Science Teachers, Science Instruction
Pols, C. F. J.; Dekkers, P. J. J. M.; de Vries, M. J. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2022
Physics inquiry can be interpreted as the construction of a cogent argument in which students apply inquiry knowledge and knowledge of physics to the systematic collection of relevant, valid, and reliable data, creating optimal scientific support for a conclusion that answers the research question. In learning how to devise, conduct and evaluate a…
Descriptors: Scoring Rubrics, Active Learning, Inquiry, Physics
Ivanjek, L.; Klein, P.; Geyer, M.-A.; Küchemann, S.; Jelicic, K.; Dahlkemper, M. N.; Susac, A. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2022
To investigate how physics students perceived the sudden shift to online learning at the beginning of COVID-19 pandemic, 18 semistructured interviews were conducted with university students in Austria, Croatia, and Germany. Based on the interviews, a questionnaire was developed and data from N ¼ 578 physics students from five universities in…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, COVID-19, Pandemics
Stephen Hackler; Emily Elliott; Mark Eichenlaub; Alison M. Sweeney – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
The increasing and diversifying student enrollments in introductory physics courses make reliable, valid, and usable instruments for measuring student skills and gains ever more important. In introductory physics, in addition to teaching facts about mechanics, we also seek to teach our students the skills of "thinking like a physicist,"…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Thinking Skills, Test Construction
Geller, Benjamin D.; Tipton, Maya; Daniel-Morales, Brandon; Tignor, Nikhil; White, Calvin; Crouch, Catherine H. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2022
A central goal of introductory physics for the life sciences (IPLS) is to prepare students to use physics to model and analyze biological situations, a skill of increasing importance for their future studies and careers. Here we report our findings on life science students' ability to carry out a sophisticated biological modeling task at the end…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Physics, Science Process Skills, Biological Sciences
Chasteen, Stephanie V.; Chattergoon, Rajendra – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2020
Effective faculty professional development must be participant centered; tailored to the needs and interests of the faculty who engage in it. In order to better understand those needs and interests, we investigate how knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, and teaching practice vary among new physics faculty, using surveys of a large sample (n = 442) of…
Descriptors: Physics, Astronomy, Science Teachers, Faculty Development
Young, Nicholas T.; Allen, Grant; Aiken, John M.; Henderson, Rachel; Caballero, Marcos D. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2019
Computation is a central aspect of 21st century physics practice; it is used to model complicated systems, to simulate impossible experiments, and to analyze mountains of data. Physics departments and their faculty are increasingly recognizing the importance of teaching computation to their students. We recently completed a national survey of…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Physics, Computation, Teaching Methods
Quan, Gina M. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2018
We analyze how participating in undergraduate research experiences (UREs) influenced physics students' trajectories of participation within the community of practice of physics researchers. Students in the study participated in an elective seminar in which they were paired with graduate student and faculty mentors on physics research projects and…
Descriptors: Physics, College Science, Scientific Research, Communities of Practice
Van Dusen, Ben; Nissen, Jayson – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2020
Many science, technology, engineering, and math degrees require passing an introductory physics course. Physics courses often have high failure rates that disproportionately harm students who are historically and continually marginalized by racism, sexism, and classism. We examined the associations between learning assistant (LA) supported courses…
Descriptors: Correlation, Introductory Courses, Physics, Science Instruction
Geller, Benjamin D.; Rubien, Jack; Hiebert, Sara M.; Crouch, Catherine H. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2022
A goal of introductory physics for life sciences (IPLS) curricula is to prepare students to effectively use physical models and quantitative reasoning in biological and medical settings. To assess whether this goal is being met, we conducted a longitudinal study of the impact of IPLS on student work in later biology and chemistry courses. We…
Descriptors: Physics, Biology, Science Instruction, Capstone Experiences
Altermatt, Ellen; Teodorescu, Raluca; Iverson, Ellen R. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2021
Introductory physics for life sciences (IPLS) courses have emerged as a type of physics course within the introductory courses sequence. The interdisciplinary aspects of these courses as well as the diverse student populations that they serve create significant challenges for instructors who choose to design and deliver them. The Living Physics…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Predictor Variables, Teacher Attitudes, Self Efficacy