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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
Fiedler, Kristin; Kubsch, Marcus; Neumann, Knut; Nordine, Jeffrey – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
Science education research has repeatedly revealed students' problems with understanding the energy concept, in particular, their understanding of potential energy. Newer research suggests that teaching students fields as a means to store potential energy may promote a more consistent understanding of the energy concept. Yet, it is presently…
Descriptors: Science Education, Energy, Middle School Students, Grade 6
Lin, Jiabei; Xing, Yuting; Hu, Yudi; Zhang, Jian; Bao, Lei; Luo, Kaiqing; Yu, Keke; Xiao, Yang – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
Students hold a variety of initial (mis)conceptions that are inconsistent with scientific knowledge and hinder their physics learning. The initial (mis)conceptions could coexist with the scientific ones, even after a conceptual change. Inhibitory control may help overcome initial (mis)conceptions. This study investigated if and how inhibitory…
Descriptors: Misconceptions, Physics, Majors (Students), Science Education
Robertson, Amy D.; V'elez, Verónica; Hairston, W. Tali; Bonilla-Silva, Eduardo – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
Mainstream physics teaching and learning produces material outcomes that, when analyzed through the lens of Critical Race Theory, point to white supremacy, or "the systemic maintenance of the dominant position that produces white privilege" (Battey & Levya, 2016). In particular, the continued, extreme underrepresentation of People of…
Descriptors: Racism, Physics, Science Education, Whites
Campos, Esmeralda; Hernandez, Eder; Barniol, Pablo; Zavala, Genaro – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
Identifying students' difficulties in understanding Gauss's and Ampere's laws is important for developing educational strategies that promote an expertlike understanding of the field concept and Maxwell's equations of electromagnetic phenomena. This study aims to analyze and compare students' understanding of symmetry when applying Gauss's and…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Teaching Methods, Scientific Concepts, Concept Formation
Lindsey, Beth A.; Stetzer, MacKenzie R.; Speirs, J. Caleb; Ferm, William N., Jr.; van Hulten, Alexander – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
In this paper, we seek to evaluate the extent to which students can follow a deductive reasoning chain when it is presented to them. A great deal of instruction in introductory physics courses is centered on presenting students with a logical argument that starts from first principles and systematically leads to a particular conclusion. This…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Education, Scientific Concepts, Concept Formation
Greinert, Franziska; Müller, Rainer; Bitzenbauer, Philipp; Ubben, Malte S.; Weber, Kim-Alessandro – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
With the increasing industrial relevance of new quantum technologies, a well-educated quantum workforce becomes increasingly crucial. The foreseeable lack of workforce raises important questions. What are the expectations regarding the future relevance of second-generation quantum technologies? What are the requirements for the workforce in the…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Education, Futures (of Society), Quantum Mechanics
Al-Salmani, Fatema; Johnson, Jordan; Thacker, Beth – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
We present an analysis of students' thinking skills as evidenced by free-response exam problems during the COVID-19 pandemic. We compare two inquiry-based, laboratory-based classical mechanics courses, one taught online and one taught in person during the pandemic, and two inquiry-based, laboratory-based electricity and magnetism courses, one…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Evaluation Methods, Comparative Analysis, Inquiry
Ostermann, Fernanda; Cavalcanti, Cláudio J. de H.; Nascimento, Matheus M.; Lima, Nathan W. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
Since the beginning of the 21st century, the appropriation of the sociocultural perspective by the physics education research community has represented a linguistic turn in the field, pointing out a promising path to overcome the dominance of the "individual paradigm," both in terms of student learning and initial and continuing teacher…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Education, Learning Theories, Sociocultural Patterns
Robertson, Amy D.; Hu?nh, Trà; Mathis, Clausell; Bauman, Lauren C.; Scherr, Rachel E. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
Multicultural education invites teachers to support students in critiquing the foundations of a given discipline, with the aim of reimagining that discipline and the purposes it serves. In this paper, we present a series of cases in which high school physics teachers who are enrolled in a summer professional development course expressed vexation…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Multicultural Education, Faculty Development, Physics
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
Chuting Lu; Yating Liu; Shaorui Xu; Shaona Zhou; Heather Mei; Xiangqun Zhang; Lan Yang; Lei Bao – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
In this study, a conceptual framework of measurement uncertainty was developed and used to guide the development of a multiple-choice concept test for the assessment of students' knowledge integration in learning measurement uncertainty. Based on assessment data and interview results, students were identified into three levels of knowledge…
Descriptors: Measurement, Multiple Choice Tests, Thinking Skills, Novices
Vidushi Adlakha; Eric Kuo – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
Recent critiques of physics education research (PER) studies have revoiced the critical issues when drawing causal inferences from observational data where no intervention is present. In response to a call for a "causal reasoning primer" in PER, this paper discusses some of the fundamental issues in statistical causal inference. In…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Education, Statistical Inference, Causal Models
Stefan Küchemann; Steffen Steinert; Natalia Revenga; Matthias Schweinberger; Yavuz Dinc; Karina E. Avila; Jochen Kuhn – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
The recent advancement of large language models presents numerous opportunities for teaching and learning. Despite widespread public debate regarding the use of large language models, empirical research on their opportunities and risks in education remains limited. In this work, we demonstrate the qualities and shortcomings of using ChatGPT 3.5…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Man Machine Systems, Physics