Physical Review Physics Education Research

The assessment of teamwork in the context of a large-scale, introductory level course based research experience contributes to metacognition in labs and reveals the importance of socially shared regulation in effective group work.

Students felt engaged in authentic research within a large enrollment, online laboratory course environment.

A multifaceted approach for supporting experimental skills and scientific practices in an electronics laboratory course.

Assessment framework for instructional labs that forefronts student agency.

Examining the evolution and impact of a physics for health science course that is centered around laboratory activities and inquiry-based pedagogy.

An examination of the roles, responsibilities, and experiences of the staff and faculty who lead and support physics laboratory instruction.

A detailed description of the design of the survey of physics reasoning on uncertainty concepts in experiments.

Instructor sensitivity to students’ expectations during the lab may increase engagement with innovative lab activities.

Investigation of how faculty and students “see” quantum effects while conducting quantum optics experiments.

Three aspects of students’ understanding of uncertainty are compared between introductory and more advanced lab courses: procedural reasoning, sources of uncertainty, and predictive reasoning.

Investigation of professional development of teaching assistants in the labs that are a part of the investigative science learning environment approach.

What are impacts of substituting video-based experiments in place of apparatus-based experiments that emphasize scientific abilities?

Lab instructors’ attitudes and experiences with digital technologies are explored in three European countries.

Lab reports implemented with rubrics, feedback, and revision support high school physics students’ development of scientific practices.

A review of the evolution of undergraduate physics lab education within the United States that brings out shifts in goals, the rise of PER on labs, and emerging areas of research.

Indicators and causes of gender inequities within educational physics labs and how to reduce them.

Investigating an optical phenomenon during pandemic remote learning supports experimental design and modeling skills.

The procedural and conceptual knowledge science model guides curriculum design and analysis of student engagement and understanding.

An examination of gender equity in lab roles when using lab partner agreements.

Examining student attitudes about virtual reality experiments that involve modeling the behavior of fictitious exotic matter.