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Daryl McPadden; Vashti Sawtelle; Erin M. Scanlon; Jacquelyn J. Chini; Harsna Chahal; Regan Levy; Alex Reynolds – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
All people vary in their needs and abilities; however, typical research practices do not consider these variations, which likely impacts who participates in research studies. Additionally, few PER studies have investigated aspects of disability or reported disability identity. Combined, this means that PER researchers typically do not seek out the…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Students with Disabilities, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Physical Education
Solorio, Christian D.; Gire, Elizabeth; Roundy, David – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has made conducting in-person research a health risk for interviewers and participants. Near the start of the pandemic, many universities pivoted to emergency remote teaching where courses were delivered remotely in observance of safety guidelines. The safety guidelines also necessitated that research be done remotely. We…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Distance Education
Ríos, Laura; Pollard, Benjamin; Dounas-Frazer, Dimitri R.; Lewandowski, H. J. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2019
Models of physical systems are used to explain and predict experimental results and observations. The Modeling Framework for Experimental Physics describes the process by which physicists revise their models to account for the newly acquired observations, or change their apparatus to better represent their models when they encounter discrepancies…
Descriptors: Protocol Analysis, Interviews, Logical Thinking, Electronics
Gouvea, Julia; Sawtelle, Vashti; Nair, Abhilash – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2019
Epistemologically oriented reforms of physics courses aim to change the way students think about knowledge and approach learning in physics. A broader goal of these reforms is to impact how students think about knowledge and learning in other courses. We investigate the effects of epistemological reforms in a physics course on knowing and learning…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Physics, Biology, Science Instruction
Coble, Kim; Conlon, Mallory; Bailey, Janelle M. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2018
[This paper is part of the Focused Collection on Astronomy Education Research.] As part of a larger project studying undergraduate students' understanding of cosmology, we explored students' ideas about the curvature of the Universe. We investigated preinstruction ideas held by introductory astronomy (ASTRO 101) students at three participating…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Scientific Literacy, Astronomy
Leak, Anne E.; Santos, Zackary; Reiter, Erik; Zwickl, Benjamin M.; Martin, Kelly Norris – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2018
To prepare physics students for future careers, educators need to understand the skills and other factors necessary for entry and success on the job. Often these insights are based on CEOs, HR personnel, and managers, who provide broad perspectives regarding successful attributes of new hires. However, such insights are often more general and…
Descriptors: Optics, Success, Performance Factors, Influences
Young, Nicholas T.; Heckler, Andrew F. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2018
In the context of a generic harmonic oscillator, we investigated students' accuracy in determining the period, frequency, and angular frequency from mathematical and graphical representations. In a series of studies including interviews, free response tests, and multiple-choice tests developed in an iterative process, we assessed students in both…
Descriptors: Interviews, Accuracy, Multiple Choice Tests, Algebra
Viennot, Laurence; Décamp, Nicolas – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2018
This paper is inspired by the widely accepted need to develop critical thinking in physics students and teachers. More specifically, it is focused on the development of a critical attitude in prospective physics teachers. The question of a possible interplay between the development of conceptual comprehension and that of a critical attitude…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Science Teachers, Physics, Critical Thinking
Colantonio, Arturo; Galano, Silvia; Leccia, Silvio; Puddu, Emanuella; Testa, Italo – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2018
[This paper is part of the Focused Collection on Astronomy Education Research.] In this paper we discuss the design and development of a learning progression (LP) to describe and interpret students' understanding about stellar structure and evolution (SSE). The LP is built upon three content dimensions: "hydrostatic equilibrium";…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Learning Processes, Scientific Concepts, Concept Formation
Wooten, Michelle M.; Coble, Kim; Puckett, Andrew W.; Rector, Travis – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2018
[This paper is part of the Focused Collection on Astronomy Education Research.] This study investigates students' perceived impacts regarding their participation in course-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs) in astronomy. Each research experience adopted one or more projects from the Research Based Science Education for Undergraduates…
Descriptors: Student Participation, Astronomy, Student Attitudes, Undergraduate Students
Knaub, Alexis V.; Jariwala, Manher; Henderson, Charles R.; Khatri, Raina – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2018
Postdoc positions, intended to be advanced or continued research training in a field, are a part of the physics education research (PER) enterprise yet little is known about them. PER postdocs differ from their traditional physics counterparts in that they may have different education and research experiences. This study examined the types of…
Descriptors: Physics, Advertising, Electronic Publishing, Personnel Selection
Klein, P.; Viiri, J.; Mozaffari, S.; Dengel, A.; Kuhn, J. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2018
Relating mathematical concepts to graphical representations is a challenging task for students. In this paper, we introduce two visual strategies to qualitatively interpret the divergence of graphical vector field representations. One strategy is based on the graphical interpretation of partial derivatives, while the other is based on the flux…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Majors (Students), Physics, College Students
Maries, Alexandru; Singh, Chandralekha – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2018
Drawing appropriate diagrams is a useful problem solving heuristic that can transform a problem into a representation that is easier to exploit for solving it. One major focus while helping introductory physics students learn effective problem solving is to help them understand that drawing diagrams can facilitate problem solution. We conducted an…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Physics, Introductory Courses, Comparative Analysis
Kersting, Magdalena; Henriksen, Ellen Karoline; Bøe, Maria Vetleseter; Angell, Carl – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2018
Because of its abstract nature, Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity is rarely present in school physics curricula. Although the educational community has started to investigate ways of bringing general relativity to classrooms, field-tested educational material is rare. Employing the model of educational reconstruction, we present a…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Cooperative Learning
Karim, Nafis I.; Maries, Alexandru; Singh, Chandralekha – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2018
The Conceptual Survey of Electricity and Magnetism (CSEM) has been used to assess student understanding of introductory concepts of electricity and magnetism because many of the items on the CSEM have strong distractor choices which correspond to students' alternate conceptions. Instruction is unlikely to be effective if instructors do not know…
Descriptors: Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Teaching Assistants, Scientific Concepts, Student Surveys