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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
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
Sulaiman, Nidhal; Werth, Alexandra; Lewandowski, H. J. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
A large-enrollment, introductory physics laboratory course at the University of Colorado Boulder has undergone a recent transformation to help students' develop lab skills and better align students' views and beliefs about experimental physics with those of expert experimental physicists through engagement with authentic scientific practices. We…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Physics, Science Instruction, Science Laboratories
Corsiglia, Giaco; Pollock, Steven; Passante, Gina – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
Broadly speaking, many physicists value intuition in their work, and many instructors hope their students develop intuition (while possibly being wary of their initial, unrefined intuitions). These considerations are especially relevant in quantum mechanics, a subject many see as counterintuitive because it is removed from classical everyday…
Descriptors: Mechanics (Physics), Quantum Mechanics, Student Attitudes, Intuition
Tu, Tao; Li, Chuan-Feng; Xu, Jin-Shi; Guo, Guang-Can – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
In the context of quantum mechanics, students are often asked to use delta functions to solve problems. Here, we investigate three typical problem-solving processes using delta functions: a delta function potential well problem, a position space delta function problem, and a momentum space delta function problem. We studied students'solutions in…
Descriptors: Quantum Mechanics, Science Instruction, Problem Solving, Scientific Concepts
Mason, Andrew J.; McCardell, Jessica M.; White, Philip A.; Colton, John S. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
This study seeks to determine whether giving an explicit incentive to students in an upper-division first-semester electromagnetism course (EM1), in the form of partial credit for reworking unit exam problems, will improve their problem-solving skills as measured by performance on identical problems on the final exam. Three problems--a primarily…
Descriptors: College Science, Energy, Magnets, Problem Solving
Narayanan, Soumya; Sarin, Pradeep; Pawar, Nitin; Murthy, Sahana – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
[This paper is part of the Focused Collection on Instructional labs: Improving traditions and new directions.] We present the pedagogical design and implementation of "ESSENCe": Experimental problem solving using Staging, Scaffolding, Embedded information sources, iNstruments, and Collaboration. Research in experimental physics requires…
Descriptors: Research Skills, Skill Development, Physics, Science Experiments
Joshua Rutberg; Diane Jammula; Sheehan Ahmed – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
[This paper is part of the Focused Collection on Instructional labs: Improving traditions and new directions.] This study investigated the development of four new novice graduate teaching assistants (GTAs) and one nontenure track (NTT) faculty member assigned to teach an introductory physics laboratory course based on the investigative science…
Descriptors: Laboratories, Teaching Assistants, College Faculty, College Science
Mary Jane Brundage; Alysa Malespina; Chandralekha Singh – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
Collaborative learning with peers can lead to students learning from each other and solving physics problems correctly not only in situations in which one student knows how to solve the problems but also when none of the students can solve the problems alone. We define the rate of construction as the percentage of groups collaborating on problem…
Descriptors: Peer Relationship, Cooperative Learning, Science Education, Quantum Mechanics
Leonora Kaldaras; Carl Wieman – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
The ability to express scientific concepts in mathematical terms and integrate scientific and mathematical reasoning about a phenomenon is a foundational cognitive process involved in scientific thinking. This process called "blended math-science sensemaking" (MSS) is a desired skill for all science, technology, engineering, and math…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Teaching Methods, College Science, Undergraduate Students
Gerd Kortemeyer – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
Solving problems is crucial for learning physics, and not only final solutions but also their derivations are important. Grading these derivations is labor intensive, as it generally involves human evaluation of handwritten work. AI tools have not been an alternative, since even for short answers, they needed specific training for each problem or…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Problem Solving, Physics, Introductory Courses
Jason M. May – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
[This paper is part of the Focused Collection on Instructional labs: Improving traditions and new directions.] Physics instructional labs have long been an area of pedagogical innovation and educational research. While current stakeholders in instructional labs are undoubtedly aware of the day's concerns, reform efforts, and empirical research…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Science Laboratories, Educational History
Nieberding, Megan; Heckler, Andrew F. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
We have investigated the temporal patterns of algebra (N = 606) and calculus (N = 507) introductory physics students practicing multiple basic physics topics several times throughout the semester using an online mastery homework application called science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fluency aimed at improving basic physics…
Descriptors: Reaction Time, Accuracy, Assignments, Physics
Brundage, Mary Jane; Singh, Chandralekha – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
We discuss the development and validation of the long version of a conceptual multiple-choice survey instrument called the Survey of Thermodynamic Processes and First and Second Laws-Long suitable for introductory physics courses. This version of the survey instrument is a longer version of the original shorter version developed and validated…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Test Validity, Multiple Choice Tests, Thermodynamics
Gladys, M. J.; Furst, J. E.; Holdsworth, J. L.; Dastoor, P. C. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
The multiple-choice section of the final examination for the first-year Advanced Physics I course at the University of Newcastle, Australia between 2010 and 2018 was investigated for gender bias. A Mantel-Haenszel analysis revealed that approximately 20% of the multiple-choice questions exhibited statistically significant gender bias. A schema for…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, College Science, Science Tests