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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
Hernandez, Eder; Campos, Esmeralda; Barniol, Pablo; Zavala, Genaro – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
Electricity and magnetism are closely related phenomena with a well-known symmetry found in Maxwell equations. An essential part of any electricity and magnetism course includes the analysis of different field source distributions through Gauss's and Ampere's laws to compute and interpret different physical quantities, such as electric flux,…
Descriptors: Energy, Magnets, Science Instruction, Scientific Concepts
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
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
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
Schang, Andy; Dew, Matthew; Stump, Emily M.; Holmes, N. G.; Passante, Gina – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
Uncertainty is an important and fundamental concept in physics education. Students are often first exposed to uncertainty in introductory labs, expand their knowledge across lab courses, and then are introduced to quantum mechanical uncertainty in upper-division courses. This study is part of a larger project evaluating student thinking about…
Descriptors: College Students, Thinking Skills, Logical Thinking, Abstract Reasoning
Ngai, Courtney; Pilgrim, Mary E.; Reinholz, Daniel L.; Falkenberg, Karen; Geanious, Chris; Corbo, Joel C.; Wise, Sarah B.; Smith, Clara E.; Stone-Johnstone, Amelia – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
The practices of a departmental action team (DAT) are examined to characterize their change effort in their undergraduate program. The DAT's effort was guided by the DAT model's six core principles. The core principles are grounded in best practices for higher education and organizational change literature. Meeting minutes, facilitator journal…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Undergraduate Study, Best Practices, Organizational Change
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
Ketonen, Laura; Lehtinen, Antti; Koskinen, Pekka – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
[This paper is part of the Focused Collection on Instructional labs: Improving traditions and new directions.] In recent years, physics instructional labs have been under considerable research and development. However, there seems to be no shared understanding of how the assessment of instructional labs should be arranged to best serve students'…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Laboratories, Science Instruction, Summative Evaluation
Doty, Constance M.; Geraets, Ashley A.; Wan, Tong; Nix, Christopher A.; Saitta, Erin K. H.; Chini, Jacquelyn J. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
Physics graduate teaching assistants (GTAs) are tasked with multifaceted teaching assignments, such as leading tutorials and inquiry-based laboratories, yet their professional development rarely includes opportunities to rehearse complex pedagogical skills or receive feedback on their teaching. In this study, physics GTAs practiced specific…
Descriptors: Teaching Assistants, Graduate Students, Physics, Teaching Skills
Gonsalves, Allison J.; Danielsson, Anna T.; Avraamidou, Lucy; Nyström, Anne-Sofie; Esquivel, Rebeca – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
[This paper is part of the Focused Collection on Qualitative Methods in PER: A Critical Examination.] This article details methodologies employed to enable sharing and coconstructing the stories of three women's lives in physics. The first case explores the usefulness of timeline interviewing, where participants narrate episodes that are…
Descriptors: Physics, Self Concept, Females, Student Attitudes
Barth-Cohen, Lauren A.; Swanson, Hillary; Arnell, Jared – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
Within physics education research (PER), resource theory has proven to be a useful framework for investigating knowledge and learning and informing instructional design. To analyze learning over longer timescales and across cases, PER scholars must first identify and describe the resources activated within and across physics contexts and domains.…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Research Design
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