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Daniel Laumann; Julian Alexander Fischer; Tatjana K. Stürmer-Steinmann; Julia Welberg; Susanne Weßnigk; Knut Neumann – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2024
Digital learning technologies have grown increasingly important in physics education, partly enforced through the COVID-19 pandemic. During the pandemic, digital technologies allowed for continued teaching and learning of students even when schools were closed. While research in psychology and educational technology has yielded many insights into…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Physics, COVID-19, Pandemics
Fiedler, Kristin; Kubsch, Marcus; Neumann, Knut; Nordine, Jeffrey – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
Science education research has repeatedly revealed students' problems with understanding the energy concept, in particular, their understanding of potential energy. Newer research suggests that teaching students fields as a means to store potential energy may promote a more consistent understanding of the energy concept. Yet, it is presently…
Descriptors: Science Education, Energy, Middle School Students, Grade 6
Liu, Sijia; Xu, Shaorui; Li, Qiuye; Xiao, Hua; Zhou, Shaona – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
Despite the high demand for STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) professionals, the STEM talent pipeline continues to leak. A framework of STEM identity could provide insight into why and to what extent individuals engage in STEM-related activities. The present study describes the process of developing and validating an…
Descriptors: Self Concept, STEM Education, Student Attitudes, Reliability
C. F. J. Pols; P. J. J. M. Dekkers; M. J. de Vries – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
This small-scale, qualitative study uses educational design research to explore how focusing on argumentation may contribute to students' learning to engage in inquiry independently. Understanding inquiry as the construction of a scientifically cogent argument in support of a claim may encourage students to develop personal reasons for adhering to…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Science Instruction, Inquiry, Secondary School Students
Molz, Alexander; Kuhn, Jochen; Müller, Andreas – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2022
Affective and cognitive outcomes of science teaching in schools may be enhanced by science outreach labs (SOLs). Particularly interesting is whether and how to connect SOL visits to in-school science learning. Recent studies--among others, in this journal--have confirmed SOLs' positive affective effects. However, research remains inconclusive…
Descriptors: Science Education, Science Laboratories, Outreach Programs, Program Effectiveness
Wörner, Salome; Becker, Sebastian; Küchemann, Stefan; Scheiter, Katharina; Kuhn, Jochen – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2022
Optics is a core field in the curricula of secondary physics education. In this study, we present the development and validation of a test instrument in the field of optics, the ray optics in converging lenses concept inventory (ROC-CI). It was developed for and validated with middle school students, but can also be adapted for the use in higher…
Descriptors: Optics, Physics, Science Instruction, Concept Formation
Barth-Cohen, Lauren A.; Braden, Sarah K.; Young, Tamara G.; Gailey, Sara – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2021
Research in undergraduate physics and in K-12 science education has demonstrated challenges and successes in facilitating student engagement with reasoning practices associated with professional physicists. Here we focus on one important dimension of physics reasoning, using evidence to revise models. While this topic has been explored at the…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Physics, Science Instruction, Thinking Skills
Ikkatai, Yuko; Inoue, Atsushi; Kano, Kei; Minamizaki, Azusa; McKay, Euan; Yokoyama, Hiromi M. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2021
Women are underrepresented in physics. Because of the structure of the Japanese educational system, more women must choose physics as a subject for university entrance exams to increase the number of women studying advanced physics at university. In this study, we investigated the factors influencing girls' choice of physics for university…
Descriptors: Females, Physics, Student Attitudes, Foreign Countries
Colantonio, Arturo; Marzoli, Irene; Puddu, Emanuella; Bardelli, Sandro; Fulco, Maria Teresa; Galano, Silvia; Terranegra, Luciano; Testa, Italo – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2021
We describe how young students situate themselves with respect to astronomy through an identity framework that features four dimensions: interest, utility value, confidence, and conceptual knowledge. Overall, about 900 Italian students, from 5th to 9th grade (9-14 years old), were involved in the study. We tested our model using confirmatory…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Middle School Students, Astronomy, Identification (Psychology)
Ivanjek, Lana; Morris, Louisa; Schubatzky, Thomas; Hopf, Martin; Burde, Jan-Philipp; Haagen-Schützenhöfer, Claudia; Dopatka, Liza; Spatz, Verena; Wilhelm, Thomas – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2021
This article reports the development of a two-tier simple electric circuits test (2T-SEC Test). Simple electric circuits are introduced to students early in their school years and are an important part of the physics curriculum all the way to the university level. However, many students do not develop an adequate conceptual understanding of simple…
Descriptors: Electronic Equipment, Test Construction, Physics, Science Education
Haagen-Schützenhöfer, Claudia; Hopf, Martin – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2020
[This paper is part of the Focused Collection on Curriculum Development: Theory into Design.] Although curriculum design has a long tradition in physics education research (PER), it is often criticized for unclear or inconsistent methodologies. One reason is that the theory-into-practice aspect frequently remains blurred. Only a few curriculum…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Physics, Science Instruction, Curriculum Design
Burde, Jan-Philipp; Wilhelm, Thomas – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2020
[This paper is part of the Focused Collection on Curriculum Development: Theory into Design.] Developing a solid understanding of simple electric circuits represents a major challenge to most students in middle school. In particular, students tend to reason exclusively with current and resistance when analyzing electric circuits as they view…
Descriptors: Electronic Equipment, Science Instruction, Secondary School Science, Middle School Students
Hayes, Christian R.; Matthews, Allison M.; Song, Yiqing; Linden, Sean T.; Wilson, Robert F.; Finn, Molly; Huang, Xiaoshan; Johnson, Kelsey E.; McAlister, Anne M.; Prager, Brian; Seifert, Richard; Liss, Sandra E.; Burkhardt, Andrew M.; Troup, Nicholas – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2020
This paper presents the first results from draw-a-scientist tests (DASTs) over five years that were used to measure the effect of 8-10 week long astronomy clubs and week long summer camps on 3rd-5th grade elementary school students' perceptions of scientists. We facilitated these DASTs prior to these clubs or camps, which provide a baseline for a…
Descriptors: Clubs, Astronomy, Elementary School Students, Grade 3
Chastenay, Pierre; Riopel, Martin – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2020
We present the development and validation of a new assessment tool, the Moon Phases Concept Inventory for Middle School (MPCI-MS), a concept inventory about the phases of the moon targeting students aged 10 to 14 years old. Items in the questionnaire are based on a careful examination of the concept domain of phases of the moon, ideas and concepts…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Test Validity, Astronomy, Scientific Concepts
Priemer, Burkhard; Pfeiler, Stephan; Ludwig, Tobias – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2020
We report the findings of an empirical study that investigated whether the source of data--firsthand or secondhand data gained from lab work experiments--has an influence on students' learning outcomes. Results indicate that students' choice of a correct or incorrect hypothesis for a pendulum lab experiment on the influence of the mass of the bob…
Descriptors: Laboratory Experiments, Science Experiments, Motion, Scientific Concepts