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Scherr, Rachel E. – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2008
Systematic observations of student gestures can not only fill in gaps in students' verbal expressions, but can also offer valuable information about student ideas, including their source, their novelty to the speaker, and their construction in real time. This paper provides a review of the research in gesture analysis that is most relevant to…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Nonverbal Communication, Interpersonal Communication
Loverude, Michael E.; Gonzalez, Barbara L.; Nanes, Roger – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2011
We describe an inquiry-based course in physics and chemistry for preservice K-8 teachers developed at California State University Fullerton. The course is one of three developed primarily to enhance the science content understanding of prospective teachers. The course incorporates a number of innovative instructional strategies and is somewhat…
Descriptors: Physics, Teaching Methods, Chemistry, Preservice Teacher Education
Ding, Lin; Beichner, Robert – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2009
This paper introduces five commonly used approaches to analyzing multiple-choice test data. They are classical test theory, factor analysis, cluster analysis, item response theory, and model analysis. Brief descriptions of the goals and algorithms of these approaches are provided, together with examples illustrating their applications in physics…
Descriptors: Multiple Choice Tests, Factor Analysis, Data Interpretation, Item Response Theory
Etkina, Eugenia – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2010
This paper contains a scholarly description of pedagogical practices of the Rutgers Physics/Physical Science Teacher Preparation program. The program focuses on three aspects of teacher preparation: knowledge of physics, knowledge of pedagogy, and knowledge of how to teach physics (pedagogical content knowledge--PCK). The program has been in place…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Teachers, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Teaching Methods
Springuel, R. Padraic; Wittman, Michael C.; Thompson, John R. – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2007
We use clustering, an analysis method not presently common to the physics education research community, to group and characterize student responses to written questions about two-dimensional kinematics. Previously, clustering has been used to analyze multiple-choice data; we analyze free-response data that includes both sketches of vectors and…
Descriptors: Physics, Statistical Analysis, Multivariate Analysis, College Students
Wittmann, Michael C. – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2006
We introduce resource graphs, a representation of linked ideas used when reasoning about specific contexts in physics. Our model is consistent with previous descriptions of coordination classes and resources. It represents mesoscopic scales that are neither knowledge-in-pieces nor large-scale concepts. We use resource graphs to describe several…
Descriptors: Physics, Graphs, Educational Resources, Bibliographies
Wittmann, Michael C.; Morgan, Jeffrey T.; Feeley, Roger E. – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2006
We report on the development of students' ideas of probability and probability density in a University of Maine laboratory-based general education physics course called "Intuitive Quantum Physics". Students in the course are generally math phobic with unfavorable expectations about the nature of physics and their ability to do it. We…
Descriptors: Mechanics (Physics), Science Laboratories, Probability, Science Instruction
Kung, Rebecca Lippmann; Kung, Peter; Linder, Cedric – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2005
Physics education research increasingly makes use of video data for analysis of student learning and teaching practice. Collection of these data is conceptually simple but execution is often fraught with costly and time-consuming complications. This pragmatic paper discusses the development of systems to record and permanently archive audio and…
Descriptors: Multimedia Materials, Educational Technology, Teaching Methods, Physics
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
Lindsey, Beth A.; Hsu, Leonardo; Sadaghiani, Homeyra; Taylor, Jack W.; Cummings, Karen – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2012
Recent publications have documented positive attitudinal shifts on the Colorado Learning Attitudes about Science Survey (CLASS) among students enrolled in courses with an explicit epistemological focus. We now report positive attitudinal shifts in classes using the "Physics by Inquiry" ("PbI") curriculum, which has only an…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Physics, Epistemology, Student Attitudes
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
Zhu, Guangtian; Singh, Chandralekha – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2012
We describe the development and implementation of research-based learning tools such as the Quantum Interactive Learning Tutorials and peer-instruction tools to reduce students' common difficulties with issues related to measurement in quantum mechanics. A preliminary evaluation shows that these learning tools are effective in improving students'…
Descriptors: Quantum Mechanics, Teaching Methods, Measurement, Physics
Moore, J. Christopher; Rubbo, Louis J. – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2012
We have found that non-STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) majors taking either a conceptual physics or astronomy course at two regional comprehensive institutions score significantly lower preinstruction on the Lawson's Classroom Test of Scientific Reasoning (LCTSR) in comparison to national average STEM majors. Based on…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Majors (Students), Physics, Piagetian Theory
Henderson, Charles; Dancy, Melissa; Niewiadomska-Bugaj, Magdalena – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2012
During the fall of 2008 a web survey, designed to collect information about pedagogical knowledge and practices, was completed by a representative sample of 722 physics faculty across the United States (50.3% response rate). This paper presents partial results to describe how 20 potential predictor variables correlate with faculty knowledge about…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Introductory Courses, College Faculty
Sayre, Eleanor C.; Franklin, Scott V.; Dymek, Stephanie; Clark, Jessica; Sun, Yifei – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2012
We present data from a between-student study on student response to questions on Newton's third law given in two introductory calculus-based physics classes (Mechanics and Electromagnetism) at a large northeastern university. Construction of a response curve reveals subtle dynamics in student learning not capturable by pretesting and post-testing.…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Student Reaction, Mechanics (Physics), Calculus
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