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Danny Doucette; Chandralekha Singh – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2024
[This paper is part of the Focused Collection on Instructional labs: Improving traditions and new directions.] This review article provides an overview of research on the topic of gender equity in educational physics labs. As many institutions and instructors seek to evolve or transform physics lab learning, it is important that changes are made…
Descriptors: Sex Fairness, Physics, Gender Differences, High School Students
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
Black, W. K.; Matz, Rebecca L.; Mills, Mark; Evrard, A. E. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
Problem Roulette (PR), an online study service at the University of Michigan, offers points-free formative practice to students preparing for examinations in introductory science, technology, engineering, and mathematics courses. Using four years of PR data involving millions of problem attempts by thousands of students, we quantify the benefits…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Introductory Courses
Larsson, Johanna; Danielsson, Anna T. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
Underrepresentation of women in physics is a prominent issue in the western countries. Since physics teachers are in a unique position to affect new generations of students, it has been suggested that they are an important part of the solution. In this paper, we explore how trainee physics teachers create spaces for themselves as learners of…
Descriptors: Physics, Females, Science Education, Gender Differences
Young, Nicholas T.; Verboncoeur, N.; Lam, Dao Chi; Caballero, Marcos D. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
Rubric-based admissions are claimed to help make the graduate admissions process more equitable, possibly helping to address the historical and ongoing inequities in the U.S. physics graduate school admissions process that have often excluded applicants from minoritized races, ethnicities, genders, and backgrounds. Yet, no studies have examined…
Descriptors: Scoring Rubrics, Admission Criteria, Equal Education, Graduate Students
Morley, Alicen; Nissen, Jayson M.; Van Dusen, Ben – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
Instructors and researchers often use research-based assessments to identify the impact of instructional activities. These investigations often focus on issues of diversity, equity, and inclusions by comparing outcomes across social identity groups (e.g., gender, race, and class). Comparisons across groups assume the assessments measure the same…
Descriptors: Error of Measurement, Racial Differences, Gender Differences, Test Validity
Alysa Malespina; Christian D. Schunn; Chandralekha Singh – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
Students' motivational beliefs, such as disciplinary intelligence mindsets, can influence their physics performance and persistence. Intelligence mindset beliefs have long been argued to fall along of continuum between fixed and growth mindsets. Those with fixed physics mindsets believe that ability in physics is innate and unchangable, while…
Descriptors: Physics, Predictor Variables, Grades (Scholastic), Gender Differences
Jie Yang; Qing X. Ryan; Shiyu Gao; Xijia Guo – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
To explore the self-efficacy and physics identity of students across various physics career trajectories, as well as to delve into the motivations of male and female students in choosing to major in physics and pursue teaching, we conducted a survey within the Department of Physics at East China Normal University. This institution offers…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Self Efficacy, Self Concept, Student Attitudes
Qiuye Li; Shaorui Xu; Yushan Xiong; Wei He; Shaona Zhou – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
A significant proportion of universities throughout the world switched from conventional face-to-face course delivery to emergency remote teaching (ERT) in response to the pervasive COVID-19 outbreak. A series of challenges are faced by both teachers and students as a result of the rapid and abrupt switch to ERT. Within the context of ERT, physics…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Distance Education
Lisabeth M. Santana; Chandralekha Singh – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
This research focuses on the experiences of six undergraduate white women who are physics and astronomy majors. Specifically we conducted semistructured, empathetic interviews that reveal how uncomfortable physics environments inside and outside of the classroom, which were often propagated by male instructors and peers, excluded undergraduate…
Descriptors: Physics, Gender Differences, Undergraduate Students, Females
Yangqiuting Li; Chandralekha Singh – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
In this study, we investigated female and male students' sense of belonging and their academic performance measured by the Force Concept Inventory (FCI) and course grades in a calculus-based introductory physics course at a large public university in the United States. We find that compared to male students, female students' sense of belonging was…
Descriptors: Sense of Community, Predictor Variables, Introductory Courses, Physics
Gerd Kortemeyer; Christine Kortemeyer; Wolfgang Bauer – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
At large institutions of higher education, students frequently have a choice whether to attend the introductory physics sequence asynchronously online, on-site in a traditional lecture setting, or in a reformed studio setting. In this study, we investigate how these different settings are correlated with measures of self-efficacy, interest in…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Physics, Lecture Method, Electronic Learning
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
Li, Yangqiuting; Singh, Chandralekha – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
Students' self-efficacy, interest, and perceived recognition from others in a given field have been shown to be very important for the development of their identity in that field, which is a critical predictor of students' major and career decisions. Prior research suggests that students' self-efficacy and interest play an important role in their…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Physics, Science Instruction, Student Interests
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