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Irving, Paul W.; Martinuk, Mathew Sandy; Sayre, Eleanor C. – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2013
We use epistemological framing to interpret participants' behavior during group problem-solving sessions in an intermediate mechanics course. We are interested in how students frame discussion and in how the groups shift discussion framings. Our analysis includes two framing axes, expansive vs narrow and serious vs silly, which together…
Descriptors: Mechanics (Physics), Epistemology, Problem Solving, Undergraduate Students
Irving, Paul W.; Sayre, Eleanor C. – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2015
As part of a longitudinal study into identity development in upper-level physics students, we used a phenomenographic research method to examine students' perceptions of what it means to be a physicist. Analysis revealed six different categories of perception of what it means to be a physicist. We found the following themes: research and its…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Physics, Scientists
Sayre, Eleanor C.; Irving, Paul W. – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2015
Instructors and researchers think "thinking like a physicist" is important for students' professional development. However, precise definitions and observational markers remain elusive. We reinterpret popular beliefs inventories in physics to indicate what physicists think thinking like a physicist entails. Through discourse analysis of…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Physics, Scientists, Science Process Skills
Irving, Paul W.; Sayre, Eleanor C. – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2014
We use the theory of communities of practice and the concept of accountable disciplinary knowledge to describe how a learning community develops in the context of an upper-division physics laboratory course. The change in accountable disciplinary knowledge motivates students' enculturation into a community of practice. The enculturation process is…
Descriptors: Physics, Laboratory Experiments, Communities of Practice, Time Factors (Learning)
Chen, Ying; Irving, Paul W.; Sayre, Eleanor C. – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2013
Previous research into problem solving in physics resulted in researchers introducing six epistemic games to describe the organizational structures of locally coherent resources. We present a new epistemic game--the "answer-making epistemic game"--which was identified in this paper through the analysis of interviews carried out to validate a…
Descriptors: Physics, Educational Games, Epistemology, Problem Solving