Physical Review Physics Education Research

Modeling instruction supports equity in student attitudinal shifts in introductory physics.

A case study analysis of successful Black women, with PhDs in physics, and the key themes that led to their success.

An emphasis on innate talent in graduate admissions may be limiting the diversity of admitted students.

Over-reliance on GRE scores for admission may be substantially limiting the number of well-qualified women and students from traditionally marginalized racial or ethnic groups accepted to physics graduate programs.

A tool is presented to critically examine physics identity with special attention to the impacts of structural and systemic racism.

The critical physics identity framework is applied to deconstruct the factors that influence physics identity for a sample of undergraduate, graduate, and professional black physicists.

Learning assistants in an introductory physics course result in overall decreases in drop, fail, or withdraw rates with larger decreasesfor Black, Indigenous, and people of color than their White peers.

The Brazilian Physical Society lacks diversity; it is made up predominately of white men in a country where non-white people and women are the majority.