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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
Cedric Linder; Jesper Bruun; Arvid Pohl; Burkhard Priemer – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2024
Social semiotic discussions about the role played by representations in effective teaching and learning in areas such as physics have led to theoretical proposals that have a strong common thread: in order to acquire an appropriate understanding of a particular object of learning, access to the disciplinary relevance aspects in the representations…
Descriptors: Semiotics, Physics, Scientific Concepts, Competence
Paul R. Destefano; Ralf Widenhorn – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2024
[This paper is part of the Focused Collection on Instructional labs: Improving traditions and new directions.] This manuscript presents a case study of an introductory physics student who, during the remote learning conditions imposed during the COVID-19 pandemic, found inspiration within a new, open-inquiry, project-based, laboratory curriculum…
Descriptors: Science Experiments, Optics, Physics, Distance Education
Potvin, Geoff; Hazari, Zahra; Khatri, Raina; Cheng, Hemeng; Head, T. Blake; Lock, Robynne M.; Kornahrens, Anne F.; Woodle, Kathryne Sparks; Vieyra, Rebecca E.; Cunningham, Beth A.; Kramer, Laird; Hodapp, Theodore – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
Women and many people of color continue to be minoritized in STEM and notably in physics. We conducted two studies demonstrating that exposure to counternarratives about "who does physics" and "why one does physics" significantly increases high school students--especially women's--physics-related career intentions. These…
Descriptors: Physics, Females, Career Choice, STEM Education
Wang, Jianlan; Wang, Yuanhua; Wipfli, Kyle; Thacker, Beth; Hart, Stephanie – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
Learning assistants (LAs) play an important role in inquiry-oriented physics instruction in large classrooms. LAs increase the teacher-student ratio and provide timely support to student exploration. Questioning is believed to be an advantageous strategy for LAs to scaffold student learning and maintain students as the agent of knowledge…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Science Instruction, Physics, Large Group Instruction
White, Gary; Sikorski, Tiffany-Rose; Landay, Justin; Ahmed, Maryam – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
Limiting case analysis (LCA) is important to practicing physicists. Yet, there is little concrete guidance for physics educators, and a lack of consensus in the research community about how to help students learn, and learn from, limiting case analysis. In this study, we first review existing literature to find commonalities and variations in how…
Descriptors: Energy, Magnets, Physics, Science Education
Richards, Zachary; Kelly, Angela M. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
The present study examined demographic and academic predictors of astronomy performance among a cohort of N=1909 community college students enrolled in astronomy courses in a large suburban community college during a four-year time frame, 2015-2019. The theoretical framework was based upon a deconstructive approach for predicting community college…
Descriptors: Grade Prediction, Community College Students, Astronomy, Predictor Variables
Felker, Zachary; Chen, Zhongzhou – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
We examine the effectiveness of a planning prompt intervention to reduce procrastination on online homework for college students. The intervention asked students to indicate their intention to earn small amounts of extra credit for completing assignments earlier and form a plan to realize their intentions. Students' learning behavior is measured…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Introductory Courses, Homework
Sirnoorkar, Amogh; Bergeron, Paul D. O.; Laverty, James T. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
Researchers in physics education have advocated both for including modeling in science classrooms as well as promoting student engagement with sensemaking. These two processes facilitate the generation of new knowledge by connecting to one's existing ideas. Despite being two distinct processes, modeling is often described as sensemaking of the…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Learner Engagement, Student Attitudes
Oliver, Kristin A.; Werth, Alexandra; Lewandowski, H. J. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
Participation in undergraduate research experiences (UREs) has been identified as an important way of increasing undergraduate retention, interest, and identity within the sciences. Course-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs) have been shown to have similar outcomes to UREs but can reach a larger number of students at one time and are…
Descriptors: Student Experience, Student Research, Scientific Research, Distance Education
Mathis, Clausell; Daane, Abigail R.; Rodriguez, Brandon; Hernandez, Jessica; Huynh, Tra – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
Culturally relevant pedagogy (CRP) described in Ladson-Billings' framework has three conceptions: "conceptions of self and others," "conceptions of knowledge," and "conceptions of social relations." Instructors can support students with positive learning experiences when they are cognizant of all three conceptions. In…
Descriptors: Culturally Relevant Education, Self Concept, Knowledge Level, Interpersonal Relationship
Borish, Victoria; Lewandowski, H. J. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
As quantum information science and technology (QIST) is becoming more prevalent and occurring not only in research labs but also in industry, many educators are considering how best to incorporate learning about quantum mechanics into various levels of education. Although much of the focus has been on quantum concepts in nonlab courses, current…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Undergraduate Study, Science Laboratories, Quantum Mechanics
Crossette, Nathan; Carr, Lincoln D.; Wilcox, Bethany R. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
Social network analysis (SNA) has been gaining traction as a technique for quantitatively studying student collaboration. We analyze networks, constructed from student self-reports of collaboration on homework assignments, in two courses from the University of Colorado Boulder and one course from the Colorado School of Mines. All three courses…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Cooperation, Student Behavior, Homework
Mi, Shuaishuai; Ye, Jianqiang; Li, Yan; Bi, Hualin – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
This study developed and validated an instrument to investigate senior school students' understanding of electrostatics and provide a cognitive diagnostic assessment of their strengths and weaknesses on the related concepts (e.g., electric charge). The instrument included 20 four-tier multiple-choice items and the development process is organized…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Test Validity, High School Students, Student Evaluation
Galano, Silvia; Liccardo, Antonella; Amodeo, Anna Lisa; Crispino, Marianna; Tarallo, Oreste; Testa, Italo – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
We investigated how the endorsement of gender stereotypes affects disciplinary identity across three different science-technology-engineering-mathematics (STEM) areas: physics, biology, and chemistry, and whether such relationship is mediated by self-concept constructs, such as self-efficacy and perceived academic control. Building on the…
Descriptors: Sex Stereotypes, High School Students, Self Concept, STEM Education