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Quan, Gina M.; Turpen, Chandra; Elby, Andrew – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2022
We analyze the identity trajectory of a single case study, Cassidy, within the physics community. We focus our analysis on two settings in the physics community: an undergraduate research experience, and undergraduate coursework. We use video data from three interviews (spanning roughly fifteen months) to longitudinally analyze shifts in…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Education, Self Concept, Longitudinal Studies
Sabo, Hannah C.; Elby, Andrew – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2020
[This paper is part of the Focused Collection on Curriculum Development: Theory into Design.] This paper proposes the rethinking of the division of labor between physics education research curriculum developers and classroom instructors. Historically, both curriculum developers and instructors have taken responsibility for fostering students'…
Descriptors: Teamwork, Group Dynamics, Physics, College Science
Elby, Andrew; Yerdelen-Damar, Sevda – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2020
[This paper is part of the Focused Collection on Curriculum Development: Theory into Design.] In the "standard" physics education research curriculum-development model, researchers are cast primarily as producers of curricula and instructors are cast primarily consumers, i.e., adopters and adapters. We illustrate a complementary model in…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Teachers, Science Curriculum, Educational Researchers
Kuo, Eric; Hull, Michael M.; Elby, Andrew; Gupta, Ayush – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2020
Professional problem-solving practice in physics and engineering relies on mathematical sense making--reasoning that leverages coherence between formal mathematics and conceptual understanding. A key question for physics education is how well current instructional approaches develop students' mathematical sense making. We introduce an assessment…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Physics, Science Instruction, Mathematical Concepts
Gupta, Ayush; Elby, Andrew; Danielak, Brian A. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2018
Evidence from psychology, cognitive science, and neuroscience suggests that cognition and emotions are coupled. Education researchers have also documented correlations between emotions (such as joy, anxiety, fear, curiosity, boredom) and academic performance. Nonetheless, most research on students' reasoning and conceptual change within the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Psychology, Epistemology, Psychological Patterns, Cognitive Processes
Dreyfus, Benjamin W.; Elby, Andrew; Gupta, Ayush; Sohr, Erin Ronayne – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2017
Mathematical sense-making--looking for coherence between the structure of the mathematical formalism and causal or functional relations in the world--is a core component of physics expertise. Some physics education research studies have explored what mathematical sense-making looks like at the introductory physics level, while some historians and…
Descriptors: Quantum Mechanics, Mathematics, Expertise, Introductory Courses
Connecting Self-Efficacy and Views about the Nature of Science in Undergraduate Research Experiences
Quan, Gina M.; Elby, Andrew – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2016
Undergraduate research can support students' more central participation in physics. We analyze markers of two coupled shifts in participation: changes in students' views about the nature of science coupled to shifts in self-efficacy toward physics research. Students in the study worked with faculty and graduate student mentors on research projects…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Student Attitudes, Attitude Change, Seminars
Yerdelen-Damar, Sevda; Elby, Andrew – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2016
This study investigates how elite Turkish high school physics students claim to approach learning physics when they are simultaneously (i) engaged in a curriculum that led to significant gains in their epistemological sophistication and (ii) subject to a high-stakes college entrance exam. Students reported taking surface (rote) approaches to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Secondary School Science, Science Instruction
Gupta, Ayush; Elby, Andrew; Conlin, Luke D. – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2014
Many science education researchers have argued that learners' commitment to a substance (matter-based) ontology impedes the learning of scientific concepts that scientists typically conceptualize as processes or interactions, such as force, electric current, and heat. By this account, students' tendency to classify these entities as…
Descriptors: Physics, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary School Science, Science Instruction
Hull, Michael M.; Kuo, Eric; Gupta, Ayush; Elby, Andrew – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2013
Much research in engineering and physics education has focused on improving students' problem-solving skills. This research has led to the development of step-by-step problem-solving strategies and grading rubrics to assess a student's expertise in solving problems using these strategies. These rubrics value "communication" between the…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Scoring Rubrics, Mathematical Logic, Logical Thinking
Yerdelen-Damar, Sevda; Elby, Andrew; Eryilmaz, Ali – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2012
This study explored how researchers' views about the form of students' epistemologies influence how the researchers develop and refine surveys and how they interpret survey results. After running standard statistical analyses on 505 physics students' responses to the Turkish version of the Maryland Physics Expectations-II survey, probing students'…
Descriptors: Physics, Psychometrics, Researchers, Epistemology
Goertzen, Renee Michelle; Scherr, Rachel E.; Elby, Andrew – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2010
As part of a long-term program to develop effective, research-based professional development programs for physics graduate student teaching assistants (TAs), we first identify their current classroom practices and why they engage in these practices. In this paper, we identify a set of teaching practices we call "focusing on indicators,"…
Descriptors: Teaching Assistants, Tutoring, Graduate Students, Professional Development
Goertzen, Renee Michelle; Scherr, Rachel E.; Elby, Andrew – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2010
Effective physics instruction benefits from respecting the physics ideas that introductory students bring into the classroom. We argue that it is similarly beneficial to respect the teaching ideas that novice physics instructors bring to their classrooms. We present a case study of a tutorial teaching assistant (TA), Alan. When we first examined…
Descriptors: Physics, Teaching Assistants, Science Instruction, College Science