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Chasteen, Stephanie V.; Wilcox, Bethany; Caballero, Marcos D.; Perkins, Katherine K.; Pollock, Steven J.; Wieman, Carl E. – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2015
In response to the need for a scalable, institutionally supported model of educational change, the Science Education Initiative (SEI) was created as an experiment in transforming course materials and faculty practices at two institutions--University of Colorado Boulder (CU) and University of British Columbia. We find that this departmentally…
Descriptors: Physics, Advanced Courses, College Science, Foreign Countries
Pepper, Rachel E.; Chasteen, Stephanie V.; Pollock, Steven J.; Perkins, Katherine K. – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2012
We discuss common difficulties in upper-division electricity and magnetism (E&M) in the areas of Gauss's law, vector calculus, and electric potential using both quantitative and qualitative evidence. We also show that many of these topical difficulties may be tied to student difficulties with mathematics. At the junior level, some students…
Descriptors: Evidence, Calculus, Pragmatics, Scientific Concepts
Chasteen, Stephanie V.; Pollock, Steven J.; Pepper, Rachel E.; Perkins, Katherine K. – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2012
Over the course of four years, we have researched and transformed a key course in the career of an undergraduate physics major--junior-level electricity and magnetism. With the aim of educating our majors based on a more complete understanding of the cognitive and conceptual challenges of upper-division courses, we used principles of active…
Descriptors: Electronics, College Science, Advanced Courses, Curriculum Development
Chasteen, Stephanie V.; Pepper, Rachel E.; Caballero, Marcos D.; Pollock, Steven J.; Perkins, Katherine K. – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2012
As part of an effort to systematically improve our junior-level E&M I course, we have developed a tool to assess student conceptual learning of electrostatics at the upper division. Together with a group of physics faculty, we established a list of learning goals for the course that, with results from student observations and interviews,…
Descriptors: Electronics, College Science, Advanced Courses, Science Tests
Podolefsky, Noah S.; Perkins, Katherine K.; Adams, Wendy K. – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2010
This paper extends prior research on student use of computer simulations (sims) to engage with and explore science topics, in this case wave interference. We describe engaged exploration; a process that involves students actively interacting with educational materials, sense making, and exploring primarily via their own questioning. We analyze…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Science Activities, Computer Simulation, Computer Uses in Education
Gray, Kara E.; Adams, Wendy K.; Wieman, Carl E.; Perkins, Katherine K. – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2008
We measured what students perceive physicists to believe about physics and solving physics problems and how those perceptions differ from the students' personal beliefs. In this study, we used a modified version of the Colorado Learning Attitudes about Science Survey which asked students to respond to each statement with both their personal belief…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Physics, Scientists, Scientific Attitudes