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Ellen Watson; Gregory Thomas – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2024
[This paper is part of the Focused Collection on Qualitative Methods in PER: A Critical Examination.] Epistemic beliefs about physics are most often investigated using quantitative instruments that reflect binary conceptualizations of those beliefs. This study reports from a qualitative study which used continua to represent the epistemic beliefs…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Beliefs, Physics, Foreign Countries
Phillips, A. M.; Gouvea, E. J.; Gravel, B. E.; Beachemin, P. -H.; Atherton, T. J. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
Computation is intertwined with essentially all aspects of physics research and is invaluable for physicists' careers. Despite its disciplinary importance, integration of computation into physics education remains a challenge and, moreover, has tended to be constructed narrowly as a route to solving physics problems. Here, we broaden Physics…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Models
Coletta, Vincent P. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
Recently Burkholder "et al." argued that class normalized gains over the entire population of courses is approximated by a Cauchy distribution, not by a normal distribution, and therefore should not be used to compare different classes because means and standard deviations cannot be calculated. They argued that multiple linear regression…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Scientific Concepts, Concept Formation
Guisasola, Jenaro; Campos, Esmeralda; Zuza, Kristina; Zavala, Genaro – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
Inquiring about students' learning and their difficulties understanding the concepts and models of physics is a familiar challenge in physics education research. Researchers have developed various methodologies, such as phenomenography, to address it. Phenomenography is an empirical approach to determining how people experience and understand…
Descriptors: Phenomenology, Learning Processes, Teaching Methods, Physics
Webb, David J.; Paul, Cassandra A. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
We add to a growing literature suggesting that demographic grade gaps should be attributed to biases embedded in the courses themselves. Changes in the structure of two different introductory physics classes were made while leaving the topics covered and the level of coverage unchanged. First, a class where conceptual issues were studied before…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Disproportionate Representation, Minority Group Students, Science Education
Euler, Elias; Gregorcic, Bor – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
Qualitative studies in the domain of physics education research have become more common in the last several decades. Methodologically, this has been marked by an expansion of the types of data collected in physics education research (PER): namely, in the use of individual and group interviews, problem-solving sessions, and classroom…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Visual Aids
Rodriguez, Miguel; Barthelemy, Ramón; McCormick, Melinda – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2022
More progress is needed to achieve equity in racial and gender representation in the push to diversify the physical sciences. In order to continue moving towards representation and equity, there is a need for more analytic tools that can help us understand where we are and how we got here. This may also enable meaningful systemic change. In this…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Race, Feminism, Physics
Lane, W. Brian; Headley, Cortney – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2022
The communities of practice (COP) framework is useful in understanding the effort to expand physics education into professional preparation. This framework prompts physics educators and physics education researchers to consider "what counts as doing physics" that we want to prepare students for and how we can model professional physics…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Physics, Science Instruction, Educational Researchers
Appleby, Lara; Dini, Vesal; Withington, Lily; LaMotte, Ellise; Hammer, David – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2021
We analyzed student engagement in physics during a summer course for incoming first-year students, part of a cohort-based learning community designed for students from underrepresented groups in the School of Engineering of a predominantly white institution. The data--video of an episode within the course and interviews of the 11 students one year…
Descriptors: Caring, STEM Education, Learner Engagement, Physics
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
Hoehn, Jessica R.; Lewandowski, H. J. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2020
Scientific writing, in the form of lab notebooks, proposals, and reports, is a common element of physics lab classes. Multiweek student-designed projects are growing in popularity, especially in advanced lab courses, and writing may play a unique role in these types of courses. In prior work, we developed a framework of possible goals for writing…
Descriptors: Content Area Writing, Writing Assignments, College Science, Science Laboratories
Svensson, Kim; Eriksson, Urban – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2020
This theoretical paper defines and explores the concepts of transductive links and transductive chains, as part of the theoretical framework of social semiotics. Social semiotics stems from the multimodal framework, which provides a theoretical perspective, constructs, and a language to describe a shift of semiotic material within or between…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Semiotics, Teaching Methods
Leverini, Olivia; Levin, Mariana; Fantini, Paola – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2020
The overarching goal of this paper is to illustrate the interplay between theory, design principles, and curriculum (meant broadly, to include both written and enacted curriculum). This dialogue is illustrated in the context of the design and implementation of a particular curricular unit on thermodynamics intended for advanced secondary students…
Descriptors: Physics, Secondary School Science, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Implementation
Harlow, Danielle B.; Otero, Valerie K.; Leak, Anne E.; Robinson, Steve; Price, Edward; Goldberg, Fred – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2020
[This paper is part of the Focused Collection on Curriculum Development: Theory into Design.] Fifteen years ago, following recommendations from research on science education for prospective teachers and for students more broadly, "Physics and Everyday Thinking" introduced activities within an inquiry-based undergraduate physics course…
Descriptors: Science Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Physics, College Science